Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Lead Children and Young People's Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-SOUTH-7719204-C
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birches Poly Clinic
- Town
- Mitcham
- Salary
- £63,665 - £70,887 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Lead Children and Young People's SLT - Merton
Band 8a
Welcome to Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH)
At CLCH, we proudly serve as a beacon of compassionate community healthcare across 14 vibrant London boroughs — Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, and Kingston — as well as Hertfordshire. We bring care closer to home, embracing the rich diversity of these communities with dedication and heart.
Recognised as a Good provider by the Care Quality Commission and celebrated among the top NHS employers, we are united by a shared passion: empowering our community health professionals to deliver care that truly makes a difference.
We are deeply committed to fostering an environment where every member of our team feels respected, valued, and inspired—a place where fairness, kindness, and inclusion blossom. Our culture is rooted in the principles of the NHS People Plan, Our NHS People Promise, and our own strategic Equality values and objectives, guiding us to create a truly supportive and inclusive workplace.
Together, we build a caring community where the warmth we show one another shines through in every life we touch.
Job overview
This role sits at the heart of transforming Speech and Language Therapy for children and young people where you will lead and manage the Children’s Health Speech and Language Therapy Team clinically, operationally and professionally in line with changes to national and local legislation and Policy, with the aim of delivering High quality Speech and Language Therapy service to children and young people in Merton.
As the clinical lead, you’ll inspire, lead and manage a dynamic team of therapists, shaping a service that delivers exceptional impact for families and communities. You’ll be the go to clinical expert — Providing clinical support and guidance and ensuring staff meet national and local standards in line with service development plans. Working closely with service managers across Merton’s Integrated Complex Needs and 0–19 services, you will be the clinical lead for all local, universal and complex needs services within Merton. Your leadership will help create a service that is responsive, ambitious, and life changing for the children who rely on it.
The role also involves transformative work to ensure SEND provision for delivery of Speech and Language therapy meet National and Local developments delivering the identified child focused needs in the right place at the right time.
We will provide operational leadership support and development training as needed to help you thrive in the role.
Main duties of the job
- Operational and clinical management of the Merton children’s health Speech and Language Therapy services
- Managing a highly complex clinical community caseload
- Education and development including collaboration with the Allied Health Professional Leads and Lead Clinicians across CLCH around service improvement initiatives
- Additional professional responsibilities
- Working alongside Local Authority services and the ICB to ensure smooth delivery of services and transition
- Actively engage in quality improvement initiatives within Speech and Language Therapy and the wider multi disciplinary team
Working for our organisation
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.
What inspires us is at the heart of who we are: when we work together, we can help people move forward in ways that truly matter. Our teams support children as they take their first steps in life, and they stand beside adults as they rebuild strength, confidence, and independence. 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.
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Current HCPC registration
- Member of RCSLT
- Evidence of post graduate specialist training in Paediatric speech and language therapy
- Evidence of ongoing post graduate training including SLT specific, condition specific, Clinical supervision and Child protection
- Evidence of training and experience in recruitment and selection, appraisal, service development
- Attendance to leadership training
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate evidence of research at degree or Masters level
- Post registration management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Extensive experience and knowledge working at a highly specialist level with service users presenting with a range of complex speech, language, and communication needs
- Evidence of experience of outcome measures and implementing these to evidence positive change in service users
- Experience and training in management and leadership of teams
- Substantial experience in Paediatric speech and language therapy at Band 7 level
- Knowledge and experience in the use of relevant assessment and treatment approaches and practices, including the use of standardised assessments.
- Evidence of effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency work
- Evidence of leading service developments and change management – including audit, protocols, and pathways for service delivery
- Evidence of Presenting service data, action plans and initiative to internal and external stakeholders
- Evidence of management and supervision of staff/assistants and students
- Knowledge and experience of outcome measures and implanting these to evidence positive changes locally. .
- Highly Advanced communication and report writing skills.
- Experience of provision of training internally and externally
- Experience in supervision, appraisal, performance management and fieldwork education
- Clear understanding of the changing NHS environment
- Experience of delivering and receiving supervision and safeguarding supervision
- Experience of effectively leading and managing change and reporting on outcomes of change
- Recruitment and selection training and experience
- Evidence of people management related to performance
Desirable criteria
- Experience assessing for and attending SEND tribunal cases.
- Evidence of Project management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Evidence of training and experience in SEND processes and Health responsibilities related to this for children and young people.
- Presentation skills appropriate for stakeholders internal and external, staff, students and multi-disciplinary team members and service users including parents and carers
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of using clinical record keeping systems e.g. RIO/ Emis/ Systm1
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Evidence of own self development through PDR, CPD and portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sheena Rufus
- Job title
- Locality Lead Merton ICN
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07776053505
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