Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 19 April 2026

We have an exciting opportunity for a Children's Speech and Language Therapist to join our team on the Isle of Wight.

This role is a permanent part time position of 25 hours per week.

The post holder is responsible for providing high quality, evidenced-based assessment, treatment and management for children with communication difficulties within a community setting.

The post holder will work closely with our multidisciplinary team, children's services, preschools and schools. This can involve attending case conferences, joint appointments and providing education and training as required.

To work as a Children's Speech and Language Therapist in a range of community settings e.g. homes, school settings, early years settings, family centres.

To work as an autonomous practitioner providing assessment, diagnosis and management of children and young people with communication difficulties, within the context of the Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service.

To work collaboratively with colleagues ensuring multidisciplinary care planning and intervention.

To contribute to the process of assessment and review for Education Health Care Plans (EHCP) providing reports and attending professional meetings as required.

To deliver effective training programmes to parents/carers and Education, Health and Social Care colleagues.

To contribute to supervision and support of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and students.

To work in collaboration with your colleagues to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare.

To maintain local and national standards with regards to maintaining record keeping, activity data, and caseload management.

To attend team meetings and contribute to the department CPD schedule.

To contribute to service delivery planning, service evaluations, audits and projects.

To ensure that the children and their families are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.

Demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures (TOMS).

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

• To hold relevant degree or equivalent and to be registered with the HCPC (Health and Care Professions Council).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust