Job summary
- Main area
- community cyp
- Grade
- 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 197-RF7258
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Kaleidoscope Centre for Children and Young People
- Town
- Catford
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Speech and Language Therapist – Autism Pathway
8a
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Principal Speech and Language Therapist – Autism Pathway AHP and Multidisciplinary Team Lead
As the Principal SLT and ASD AHP/MDT Clinical Pathway Lead, you will provide both operational and clinical leadership to a multidisciplinary team of Allied Health Professionals (AHPs), Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Educational Psychologists and CAMHS specialists.
This role offers the chance to
· Lead the delivery of high-quality, timely neurodevelopmental assessments and ASD confirmations in line with NICE guidance and local service specification
· Represent the AHP workforce at strategic and commissioning forums, influencing service development and policy implementation
· Contribute expert SLT input into complex diagnostic cases and support MDT formulation
· Drive service transformation across, health, education, and social care interfaces
· Provide supervision, mentorship, and workforce planning to ensure a sustainable and skilled MDT
We’re seeking a compassionate, confident, and forward-thinking leader with a strong clinical background in ASD and neurodevelopmental services. You’ll be someone who thrives in collaborative environments, inspires teams, committed to reducing health- inequalities and brings a clear vision for integrated care.
This is more than a job – it’s a chance to make a lasting difference. If you’re ready to lead with purpose and passion, we’d love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
- Providing expert clinical and operational leadership for the Allied Health Professional (AHP) and multidisciplinary team (MDT), including Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS), Educational Psychologists (EP), and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Specialists (CAMHS MHS) working on the Autism pathway.
- Jointly leading the strategic development of the ASC pathway across the Trust representing the AHP workforce within the trust and externally.
- Ensuring the coordination and delivery of high-quality, timely neurodevelopmental assessments/ ASC confirmations, in line with NICE guidance, best practice and the local ASC core offer, working in close partnership with the paediatric medical leads.
- Contributing specialist Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) expertise to complex diagnostic cases, supporting MDT formulation, and offering second opinions as needed.
- Line management of SLTs and other AHPs/MDT members within the pathway as agreed.
- Developing and implementing clinical protocols and service improvements.
- Providing supervision and management across the MDT, developing and implement training to the wider workforce both within and external to the organisation.
- Representing the service at strategic and commissioning meetings. Leading audits, research and quality improvement initiatives.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details and information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- Degree, MSc in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Health Professions Council -Licence to Practice
- Evidence of successful completion of post graduate training at a Master’s degree equivalent in areas relevant to speciality
- Completed Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS) and/or Autism Diagnostic Interview- Revised training
Desirable criteria
- Project Management experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven specialist experience in relation to multi-disciplinary assessment and management of Autism, post qualification
- Experience of leading, supervising and managing staff
- Experience of implementing and managing change
- Experience of multiagency and MDT working including representation of professional issues
- Experience of service planning and development
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of National Policies and NICE guidelines relevant to the area
- Extensive knowledge of a broad range of assessment and diagnostic tools relevant to the specialist clinical area
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, audit, research
- Understanding of the wider NHS agenda and how this influences provision of children and young people’s health services
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Communicating complex information sensitively and clearly
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to manage competing priorities
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dorett Davis
- Job title
- General Manager Community CYP Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919 403959
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