Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Transformationunitgm; Greater London; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in North London is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist for a fixed-term contract to improve mental health care services. Candidates will assess and provide interventions for service users in the community, while also mentoring junior staff. This role requires a degree in Speech and Language Therapy, relevant professional registration, and strong clinical skills. Competitive salary and supportive work culture included.

Benefits

Supportive environment for professional development

Opportunities for apprenticeships and training

Qualifications

• Clear evidence of specialist experience and clinical skills for working with people with mental health conditions and/or learning disability.
• Experience of teaching and training others using a variety of complex multi-media materials.
• Experience of working within mental health, CAMHS, secure care, or learning disability environments.

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide SLT intervention to service users in the community.
• Mentor and support more junior staff within the team.
• Work within a multi-disciplinary team to improve mental health care.

Skills

Excellent written and spoken communication skills

Demonstrable clinical leadership skills

Skills in quality improvement

Ability to work autonomously

Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team

Education

Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy

Health and Care Professions Council registration

Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Tools

Computer based communication programmes

Job description

Employer North London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site NLFT Chase Farm Hospital (Forensic and tertiary division) Town London Salary £53,751 - £60,651 Per annum pro rata inclusive of Outer London HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 02/02/2026 23:59

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Band 7

Thank you for your interest in the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT). This is an exciting time to join us and be part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

• Collaborate at every level by living our values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
• Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
• Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
• Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
• Ensure zote research, quality improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
• Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver: Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

We are advertising for a fixed term contract for 12 months (maternity cover) to work predominantly within the Choices Learning Disability Partnership team which is a forensic team working with adults and older people with LD in the community.

The post holder will be responsible for assessing and providing SLT intervention to service users in the community LD pathway and working with the team and support staff to support

The successful Speech and Language candidate will contribute to mentoring and support for more junior staff within the team particularly the B *(B5) SLT and Boline SLT assistant working on inpatient LD wards. Some SLT support to inpatient adult MH wards to be offered in addition.

The-cycle candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary team comprising a range of mental health professionals. There will be regular professional supervision and they will join a team of SLTs within the forensic pathway and access wider support, liaison and CPD via network of SLTs working in forensic services across East 않은 North and West London.

Main duties of the job

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.

Please note that whilst dysphagia competencies are desirable they are not essential. The candidate should have experience of working with adults新人 with intellectual disability.

Working for our organisation

North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

1.We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.

2.With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome forgenden all

3.We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.

4.We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• High level post-graduate courses in related area of expertise
• Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Good IT skills and experience of using computer based communication programmes

Experience and Knowledge

• Clear evidence to demonstrate specialist experience and clinical skills for working with people with mental health conditions and/or learning disability
• Experience of teaching and training others, using a variety of complex multi-media materials suitable for presentations within professional settings
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Evidence of work-based learning to demonstrate clinical skills within a range of clinical settings
• Experience of working within mental health, CAMHS, secure care or learning disability environment

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills and ability to communicate sensitive and complex information.
• Demonstrable clinical leadership skills, able to develop, lead, manage and support staff
• Able torechten flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
• Skills in quality improvement and experience of previous QI projects

PERSONAL QUALITIES

• Ability to be flexible, engaging and approachable and can work quickly and responsively with both service users and gjithë multidisciplinary team
• Ability to work autonomously as well as under supervision and with colleagues.
• Experience of maintaining a high degree of professionalism in the face of emotive and distressing problems and where there is a_ARROW history of violence.

Other Requirements

• Understanding of clinical risk(filters management and the ability to manage this

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

kabeh Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and temporally 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to_ROOTS made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.