Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapist (
The closing date is 08 June 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity to join our team as part of our Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) pathway as a bank post.
ELSEC is a pilot programme to help educational settings and parents to provide support for children aged 2-11 years old with speech, language and communication needs, (SLCN).
The focus will be upon supporting those children who have mild to moderate SLCN who do not meet the threshold for specialist support from the Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Speech and Language Therapy Team.
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland are one of nine pathfinder pilot sites across England. This initiative is supported by the SEND Change Programme Partnership and Department for Education.
Contact Details: Emma Marfleet, Clinical Team Leader. emma.marfleet@nhs.net; 07918992706 Gina Thompson, Family Service Manager. georgina.thompson17@nhs.net; 07918992631
Main duties of the job
As part of this role, you will be delivering initial assessments of children in community settings, assessing their needs and making clinical decisions for next steps for their care.
You will also be supporting the development of our workforce, with mentoring opportunities to support Therapy Support Workers within the team in addition to supporting band 5 speech and language therapists.
There will be opportunities to lead on universal and targeted training to settings within LLR virtually and in person.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for more details.The interviews for this post will be held on the13/06/25.
About us
We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.
Details
Date posted
02 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year
Contract
Bank
Working pattern
Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number
003619
Job locations
County Hall
Penn Lloyd Building
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 8TB
Employer details
Employer name
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust
Address
County Hall
Penn Lloyd Building
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE3 8TB
Employer's website
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Employer contact details
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