Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £45,953 - £54,254 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full-time |
| Location: | Sidcup, DA14 6LT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Posting date: | 1 Sept 2026 |
| Closing date: | 7 Oct 2026 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity as emerged to join the Oxleas Adult Autism Service as we seek to appoint a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our service within the new Community Autism Service (CAS) and the Autism Acute Support Team (AAST) working with Autistic adults with complex mental health difficulties and without a learning disability within the Adult Neurodevelopmental Directorate.
CAS is a newly established service focused on delivering specialist community-based support to autistic adults without a learning disability and without a mental health condition that would make them eligible for other services. AAST is a long-established service supporting autistic adults without a learning disability who are admitted to acute care due to a mental health crisis.
The post will be split across both teams, with a strong emphasis on close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and on delivering high-quality assessment and intervention for individuals with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN).
• To manage own caseload of patients within CAS and AAST
• To line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant and SaLT Students as needed
• To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to patients in partnership with their families/carers and the MDT;
• To act as part of the multi-disciplinary mental health team and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
See attached Job description and Person Specification for details of main responsibilities for this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 15 Sep 2026
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