Speech and Language Therapist - Early Years Service

Job Summary

Fixed term full time until 13.1.2027. Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Come and join the CLCH SLT Early Years team! An exciting opportunity has arisen for an NQP or experienced Band Speech and Language Therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy Early Years Service at Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust.

Join Us If You Want To:

• Continue to develop your clinical skills working with a varied preschool caseload, carrying out assessments, identifying needs, developing, implementing and evaluating specialist programmes of care.
• Work with early years staff and families to embed communication supportive environments and run evidence based targeted interventions.
• Support the development of the universal and targeted service to children and families with a range of SLC needs.
• Be part of a service which has an active diversity and inclusion ethos where EDI is established as part of our Business as Usual when thinking about our service users and our staff.
• Contribute to the quality improvement work of the wider CLCH SLT early years service.
• Work in innovative, motivated teams in a supportive and progressive environment.
• Have access to excellent supervision and support, a range of training and shadowing opportunities, to ensure strong clinical performance and development opportunities.

We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us. From newborn health visiting to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation, and palliative care, we are there for people through some of life's most important moments.

Joining Central London Community Healthcare means becoming part of a community that lifts each other up. It means working in an organisation that values compassion, welcomes new ideas, and believes in the potential of every colleague. Your development matters here. Your wellbeing matters. Your voice helps shape the future of the care we provide.

• Date posted: 23 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band:
  Band 5
• Salary: £37,259 to £45,356 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS
• Contract:
  
  Fixed term
• Duration: 11 months
• Working pattern:
  Full-time, Flexible working
• Reference number: 824-INNER-7735392
• Job locations:
  The Medical Centre, 7e Woodfield Road, London, W9 3XZ

Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values – Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment – alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Essential Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent and Licence to Practice – Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Health Care Professionals Council Licence to Practise
• Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT

Essential Experience

• Relevant experience at undergraduate/postgraduate level working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• Experience working collaboratively with parents/carers and other health/education professionals

Desirable Experience

• Experience training others
• Working with multi‑cultural client groups
• Experience supporting children, families and schools in line with the Children and Families Act 2014, including contribution to statutory assessments (Education Health and Care Plan needs assessments) and the annual review process, and delivery of SALT provision as specified in EHCPs

Essential Skills

• Knowledge of child development and its application to speech and language therapy
• Knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for children with speech, language and communication needs, and ability to compare and contrast relative benefits to individual children
• Able to demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidence‑based practice
• Awareness of religious, cultural and linguistic issues impacting caseload management
• Able to identify appropriate goals and formulate…