Childrens Speech and Language Therapist | East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust

We are seeking a compassionate, innovative, and enthusiastic Band 5 Children’s Speech & Language Therapist to join our ‘Outstanding’ community Children’s and Young People’s Specialist services. You would be joining a friendly and supportive highly specialist multidisciplinary team and would contribute to the development of AHP provision within our Learning Disability Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Starfish).

The post is 37.5 hours per week and will working across Norfolk, including Kings Lynn, Great Yarmouth, and Norwich. Base is negotiable and flexible working is supported and includes agile/home working where relevant.

The Starfish Team offers assessment and intervention for young people of school age (4-18 years) with a diagnosed learning disability who are experiencing significant behavioural and/or mental health difficulties.

The Starfish team covers a large geographical area, so it is essential that you can drive and have access to a vehicle when pool cars are not available.

• To provide high quality support, assessment and advice to Children and Young people with significant learning disabilities and their families, under the support of Senior Clinicians in the team.
• To provide a range of clinical expertise and design ongoing assessment and interventions under the direction of the Senior Clinicians in the team to meet the child's changing development needs.
• To work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure multi-professional patient care for Children and Young People.
• To be committed to reducing the impact of learning disabilities and mental health on the Child/Young Person's peer and family relationships.
• Mentoring new colleagues and student in the assessment and intervention support of Children and Young People open to the service.
• Safeguarding and other relevant associated skills on review and agreement at PDR.

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We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career in which we will support your career development and progression.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Please note, the selection processes at Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

• Be professional and legally accountable for all clinical decisions and professional actions and to ensure that work is within professional standards, clinical guidelines and in line with evidence-based practice.
• Use effective communication skills based on valuing others, recognising own and other's strengths and differences.
• Provide assessment and clearly planned intervention.
• Identify and request sufficient time to continue professional development.
• Use supervision to ensure that care offered to Children/Young People is safe and needs focused, drawing on current evidence based best practice.
• Actively engage in monthly peer support meetings.
• Collaborative working with inter-disciplinary and multi-agency partners.
• Mentor & report to Senior clinicians the progress of student nurses as allocated.
• Manage diary effectively to maximise clinical/development/travelling time to cover large mixed rural and urban populations.

This advert closes on Monday 22 Jun 2026

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