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This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of jointly leading the EYS (Early Years) team. You will be working closely with the8a EYS clinicalleadandfellow Band 7 EYS leads carrying out a similar role.As one of theEarly YearsLeads, youwill provide 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, FamilyHubsand other community settings across the borough.
The post holder will:
• Contribute to the developmentand improvementof care pathways, intervention packages and training for parents andourpartner agencies
• Jointly manage shared team caseloads andcontribute to the planning andfair allocation of workacross the EYS team
• provide a service which takes account of the needs of children and families from a range of culturaland linguistic backgrounds
• deputise forthe EYSClinical Lead & otherBand 7 EYS leadswhenappropriate.
To provide specialist assessment and therapy for children under 5 with speech,languageand 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 beidentifiedand 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.
There maybe opportunity to work one day a week within the autism diagnostic service (dependent on interest and experience).
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 partner agencies, andoffers services across a wide range of care groups in the borough.
We can offer you:
• A warm,welcomingand supportive team ofSaLTsand colleagues who bring experiences from all over the world.
• 1:1 monthly supervision,appraisaland 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 leadonaudit andservicequalityimprovementprojects.
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,stammeringand speech disorders.
The post-holder will manage their own caseload and will support more junior staff through supervision,competencydevelopmentandannualappraisal.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 andallocatingwork equitably across the team.There will be opportunity to leadservice 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,inproviding support within early years settings including writing EHC needs assessment reports andparticipatingin annual reviews. Previousexperience of autism diagnostic work is desirable but not essential.
This advert closes on Sunday 1 Nov 2026