Band 6 / Band 7 Children's Speech and Language Therapist - Early Years & Community Location: Shropshire Duration: Ongoing (initial 3 months ongoing) Start Date: ASAP Hours: Full Time (Part Time Considered) Rate: Band 6: £26.78 (Days) | £34.71 (Nights/Sat) | £42.65 (Sun/BH) Band 7: £30.98 (Days) | £41.47 (Nights/Sat) | £50.97 (Sun/BH) (NHSI 2025/26 Price Cap) Overview An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced Children's Speech and Language Therapist to join a well-established Early Years and Community service in Shropshire. This role will suit either a Band 6 Highly Specialist SLT or Band 7 Advanced Practitioner, depending on experience. The role involves working across early years settings, schools, and community clinics, supporting children and young people with a wide range of speech, language, communication, and feeding needs. Key Responsibilities Deliver specialist SLT assessment and intervention for children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) Manage a complex paediatric caseload, including children with SEN and additional needs Work collaboratively with education staff, families, and MDT colleagues Deliver training, coaching and support to parents, carers, and professionals Assess and support paediatric dysphagia (Band 6/7 dependent) Contribute to service development, audits and clinical governance Support use of AAC (low and high-tech communication aids) Provide supervision/mentorship (Band 7 level) Essential Requirements Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (or equivalent) HCPC registration Member of RCSLT Significant experience working with children and young people with SLCN Experience within early years and/or school settings Experience working within multidisciplinary teams Strong communication, organisational and clinical reasoning skills Band 6 Specific Requirements Experience managing a paediatric caseload including complex SEN Experience delivering assessments, interventions and training Dysphagia competency or willingness to complete post-grad qualification Band 7 Additional Requirements Advanced clinical experience across paediatric SLT services Experience delivering specialist training packages (e.g. Elklan, Makaton) Experience in leadership, supervision, or service development Advanced assessment, analysis and reporting skills Ability to support and mentor junior staff Working Requirements Community-based role - travel required across Telford, Shrewsbury and surrounding areas Full UK driving licence essential Work across clinics, schools, early years settings, and home environments Ability to manage physically and emotionally demanding caseloads Additional Information Full-time preferred, part-time considered Compliance required: HCPC, DBS, mandatory training, references Exposure to complex and sometimes challenging clinical environments Eden Brown Synergy is an equal opportunities employer. Eden Brown Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales with registered number (phone number removed). Our registered address is 5th floor 4 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AR, part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment Limited T/A nGAGE Talent. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. This message is intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to us, and immediately and permanently delete it. Do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. We take reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email but cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage sustained as a result of computer viruses and the recipient must ensure that the email (and attachments) are virus free