Speech and Language Therapist

5 months ago

Enfield, United Kingdom North Middlesex University Hospital Full time

Job overview

We are excited to offer the following Band 6 permanent opportunities within our school age Speech and Language Therapy Team. Sessions will be available in Special schools and within our Mainstream Schools team supporting children and young people with education Health and Care plans.. 

We would welcome applications from newly qualified staff as well as staff with some experience and therefore would consider offering this post as a Band 6 or a Band 5/6 run through. 

We would love you to come and join us.

This is what our team say about working for the Enfield School age Speech and Language Team: 

'Supportive and welcoming team' 

'Friendly, stable team. Open to innovation' 

'Supportive management and supervision structure. I feel very well supported and always listened to.

'The management team care about your well-being and career development is at the heart of their priorities. 

'Nurturing team where you feel like family

'Excellent clinical supervision, very friendly supportive team. Excellent peer supervision, excellent safeguarding supervision. You will be valued, respected for your skills in every way.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a mixed post, supported and guided by Senior staff.

Main duties of the job

You will have sessions in some of the following areas:

Supporting children and young people with Education Health and Care plans who have a range of speech, language and communication needs, attending Enfield mainstream primary and secondary schools and in specialist provisions (Additional Resource Provision or special school).

Supporting children and young people and Education staff within special schools to develop facilitative communication environments and contribute to developing the curriculum to focus on communication everyday throughout the day.

Within the Health Pathways – Dysfluency/Speech Sound Pathways.

The post holder willparticipate in CPD activities and will contribute to departmental meetings, clinical audit and projects.

They will deliver training, initially with a more senior colleague, to other professionals and parents/carers on all aspects of speech, language and communication.

He/she will participate in the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and supervise the work of LSAs/TAs.

Newly qualified therapists have the opportunity to be involved in a preceptorship programme.

Working for our organisation

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the candidates pack that is attached to this job role for a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.

In addition if you would like to discuss any further aspect of the role please contact or to arrange a time to discuss. Alternatively if you would like to talk to one of our team about their experiences of working in our team then we would be happy to arrange this.

Person specification

Essential and desirable

Essential criteria

•Recognised speech and language therapy degree or equivalent •Registration with the Health Professions Council for Licence to Practice •Registered member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists •Confident and experienced in delivering training. •Able to construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate intervention types from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment. •Demonstrates the importance of gaining CYP’s view of their strengths and needs and supporting them to be active in the goal setting process. •Ability to write reports using accessible language and demonstrating clinical reasoning. •Able to organise, plan and prioritise own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management. •Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Primary school level •Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or a Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Secondary school level •A knowledge of SEN and national documents providing support and guidance to schools on supporting children with SEN •Ability to relate clinical theory to clinical practice •Experience of different intervention methods for children of school age •Knowledge and experience of a range of methods of assessment appropriate for school age children •Good communication and interpersonal skills •Proven ability to work as part of a team. •Demonstrates empathy with clients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities •Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values •Frequent and intense use of highly developed auditory discrimination, perceptual and well developed concentration skills for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients •Able to make own effective travel arrangements

Desirable criteria

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We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your  identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from , and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

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 saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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