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From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
East London NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “East London NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of jointly leading the EYS (Early Years) team. You will be working closely withthe 8a EYS clinical lead and fellow Band 7 EYS leads carrying out a similar role. As one of the Early Years Leads, you willprovide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to children 0-5 living in Newham. The role will involve working within clinics, EYS education settings, Family Hubs and other community settings across the borough.
The postholder will:
Contribute to the development and improvement of care pathways, intervention packages and training for parents and our partner agencies
Jointly manage shared team caseloads and contribute to the planning and fair allocation of work across the EYS team
provide a service which takes account of the needs of children and families from a range ofcultural and linguistic backgrounds
deputise for the EYS Clinical Lead & other Band 7 EYS leads when appropriate.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist assessment and therapy for children under 5 with speech, language and communication needs. This will include multi-agency working and working closely with families and early years settings to build confidence and skills to enable children's needs to be identified and supported early at the right time and in the right place.
The role will involve leading on improvement projects and contributing to the development of the service we offer to children and families in Newham.
Theremay be opportunity to work one day a week within the autism diagnostic service (dependent on interest and experience).
About us
Based at the child development centre, in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, close to the Olympic Park in the heart of London's East End (with excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex). The children's speech and language therapy service has a strong multi-agency work ethic with other services both within the trust and with partneragencies, and offers services across a wide range of care groups in the borough.
We can offer you:
A warm, welcoming and supportive team of SaLTs and colleagues who bring experiences from all over the world.
1:1 monthly supervision, appraisal and CPD
Team learning programme
Protected service development time and regular team away days
Opportunity to supervise and develop junior staff
Monthly team meetings and band 7 leadership meetings
On-going clinical skills development, MDT working
Opportunity to lead on audit and service quality improvement projects.
Job responsibilities
Working within the Early Years Service you will hold a caseload of children under 5 who present with a variety of speech language and communication needs. This includes children with social communication differences, developmental language disorder, stammering and speech disorders.
The post-holder will manage their own caseload and will support more junior staff through supervision, competency development and annual appraisal. Part of the role will involve training education staff and other partner agencies within Newham. The role will involve managing shared team caseloads and jointly planning and allocating work equitably across the team. There will be opportunity tolead service improvement work along with audit and pathway development. The post holder will on occasion deputise for the Early Years 8a Clinical Lead.
The successful applicant will have relevant experience of working with children and families, especially where a diagnosis of autism has been given, in providing support within early years settings including writing EHC needs assessment reports and participating in annual reviews. Previous experience of autism diagnostic work is desirable but not essential.
Job description
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