• Job Description

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  Job summary

  The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway. The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands. You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.

  Main duties of the job

  Co-Lead on the provision of Complex Needs and Dysphagia services for community paediatrics in Barking and Dagenham. The role is a Dysphagia and Complex needs split depending on service demand and need. Work closely with clients, carers, families and professionals to raise awareness, knowledge and skills related to the range of strategies that improve feeding outcomes across settings Be able to further develop your interests and skills in an area/ areas of interest and expertise Contribute to both speech and language therapy and multi-disciplinary team working to ensure co-ordinated service provision Lead a small team of therapists and assistants working in your Pathway. To provide supervision of colleagues and peer support Deliver comprehensive formal and informal assessment and make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment findings Develop evidence based intervention programmes, adapt and facilitate therapy according to client centred needs Provide highly specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents/carers, education staff, multidisciplinary team members and other colleagues. Be involved in the Service Development of the SALT team

  About us

  NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.

  Details

  Date posted

  27 March 2026

  Pay scheme

  Agenda for change

  Band

  Band 7

  Salary

  £49,387 to £56,515 a year Plus HCAs (Pro rata for part time)

  Contract

  Permanent

  Working pattern

  Full-time

  Reference number

  NLD-000144

  Job locations

  Axe Street Child & Family Centre

  Barking

  Essex

  IG11 7LZ

  
  

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway.

  The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands.

  You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.

  Job description

  Job responsibilities

  The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway.

  The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands.

  You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
  • Achieved Level C in Dysphagia Competency Framework

  Desirable

  • Achieved Level D in Dysphagia Competency Framework

  Experience

  Essential

  • At least 3 years experience working in paediatrics with clients who have a range of speech, language and communication needs
  • At least 2 year working in paediatrics with clients who have feeding difficulties

  Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience
  • 4+ years of dysphagia experience

  Person Specification

  Qualifications

  Essential

  • Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
  • Achieved Level C in Dysphagia Competency Framework

  Desirable

  • Achieved Level D in Dysphagia Competency Framework

  Experience

  Essential

  • At least 3 years experience working in paediatrics with clients who have a range of speech, language and communication needs
  • At least 2 year working in paediatrics with clients who have feeding difficulties

  Desirable

  • Previous NHS experience
  • 4+ years of dysphagia experience

  Disclosure and Barring Service Check

  This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

  Address

  Axe Street Child & Family Centre

  Barking

  Essex

  IG11 7LZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

  Employer details

  Employer name

  NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

  Address

  Axe Street Child & Family Centre

  Barking

  Essex

  IG11 7LZ

  
  

  Employer's website

  https://www.nelft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

• About the company

  National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.

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