Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-7891049-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Erith & District Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,751 - £60,651 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/04/2026
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Autism
Band 7
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and innovative service. We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled team player to provide Highly Specialist assessment and intervention to early years and school-aged children and young people with Autism and other speech, language and communication differences.
They will lead on developments in Autism across the service including policies and procedures relating to clinical care, evidence-based practice, care pathway and outcome development within Early Years and School Age teams.
The Bexley Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service is a dynamic and supportive team and we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision and support structures and would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical skills and contribute towards operational projects to support service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care and education.
If you would like more information about the position, please do contact us to discuss this job opportunity further, by calling 020 30040092, to speak to Laura Hurley, Coordinator for Early Years SLT. ([email protected])
Main duties of the job
- To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge in clinical specialism – Autism, underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
- To manage complex and highly specialist caseload independently and plan the workload of others where required.
- To make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessment of complex cases.
- To work as part of the MDT (London Borough of Bexley SEND Team) eg. regular attendance at SEND EHCP Panel, SEND Tribunal meetings.
- To coordinate service delivery with education and/or social care colleagues within integrated teams.
- To demonstrate excellent organisational skills.
- To provide a high-quality specialist speech and language therapy service to children and young people in early-years settings, schools and alternative settings.
- To advise the wider SLT and related teams on all aspects of communication pertaining to Autism. To provide advice to non-specialists and other specialists/professionals within the clinical field.
- To manage a specialist caseload independently and improve the quality of transitions for children and young people across settings
- To lead on service development projects and initiatives.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
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We’re Kind
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We’re Fair
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We Listen
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We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Bexley Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service is a dynamic and supportive team and we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision and support structures and would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical skills and contribute towards operational projects to support service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care and education.
See Job Description and Person Specification attached.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapy.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience working as a specialist speech & language therapist in relevant clinical specialism in last 18 months
- Experience in Assessment of children with social communication differences and Autism across the years
- Experience in intervention for children with social communication differences and Autism across the years
- Experience leading on a project
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- In depth knowledge of current evidence base relating to Autism - assessment and intervention
- Project management, change management and leadership skills
- Knowledge and skills around Supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Laura Hurley
- Job title
- Coordinator of EY Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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