Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Verbo

London, England, United Kingdom

7/22/2025

The Children’s Integrated Speech and Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City is a unique collaboration between local health and education agencies. Providing a comprehensive service to the children, young people and families within Hackney and The City.

Verbo (www.verboapp.co.uk) is an award winning online Speech and Language Therapy (and Occupational Therapy) Toolkit. The toolkit provides universal and targeted preventative care for ages 2 through to early adulthood. Our mission is to enhance the communication skills of all children and young people.

Requirements

This post is a remote, working from home post. If you are local to Hackney you are welcome to use community office spaces available. Within this post there will be requirements for travel:

• Atleast three times a year to a team meeting in London
• Conferences/exhibitions around the UK (these may include overnight stays)
• Management IT equipment
  
  

It is also important to note that you will be required to travel to Homerton as part of the recruitment process to show ID documents and possibly and Occupational Health appointment.

The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of Verbo. This will include:

• Working jointly with the Verbo’s marketing and communication officer and commercial lead to promote and share Verbo
• Work jointly with the commercial lead and clinical lead SaLT on business development opportunities
• Liaise with commissioners and support manage contracts/relationships
• Contribute to the development of clinical content
• Contributing to ideas and development
• Leading on specific Verbo development projects
• Working with a multi-professional team, including other SaLTs, a technical team, marketing advisors, videographers, web designers and many more
• Leading on grant applications
• Leading on provide support and training to users
• Attending conferences and networking events
• Speaking at events
  
  

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Caroline McCallum Job title: Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 02076834262