We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and creative speech and language therapist to join our team!
We are seeking a speech and language therapist to join our Early Language Speech and Language Therapy team within Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a recently formed team that supports children with difficulties with comprehension, expression, and speech. The successful applicant will work in community clinics, children and family centres, and various venues in Tower Hamlets.
This is an exciting time for our service as it is developing to better meet the needs of the community. You will be involved in universal, targeted, and specialist levels of support. You will be working with parents and children under five years of age (up to the end of Reception) in health and community venues. Our children have a range of needs and you will be involved in offering various interventions as well as raising awareness of early language development. The service as a whole works within the Care Aims framework and seeks to enable children to communicate more effectively and get the most out of home and school life. The team is a supportive and friendly one where your enthusiasm, empathy, and creativity will be welcomed.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and a variety of intervention programmes in the management of the under 5s caseload.
The post holder provides clinical support and may supervise more junior speech and language therapists, as well as providing day-to-day supervision of bilingual speech and language therapy (SLT) co-workers involved in providing a service to preschool / Early Years Foundation Stage children managed by speech and language therapy.
This specific post is in the Early Language Team, which supports children up to the end of Reception who have difficulties with comprehension, expression, or speech. The postholder may also be required to support other speech and language therapy teams working with under 5s.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
* Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and The Health and Care Professions Council
Experience
Essential
* Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more setting
* Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a speech and language therapy or multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
* Applied knowledge of issues relating to the SEN Code of Practice
* Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
* Experience of working in the community clinic setting
* Experience in the organization and presentation of workshops, courses, or other training packages
* Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to the post
* Experience of working with a range of cultural and religious practices in the community
* Working knowledge of the Care Aims Model
* Clinical experience of working with bilingual families
Knowledge
Essential
* Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for a child
* Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group(s)
* Knowledge of a range of interventions and well-developed applied knowledge of more specialized intervention techniques relevant to the client group(s)
* Excellent awareness of standards of record-keeping
Desirable
* Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals
* Excellent awareness of issues of multilingual and multicultural communities relating to speech and language therapy
* Awareness of clinical governance
* Knowledge of Signalong sign system
Employer details
Employer name
Barts Health NHS Trust
Address
Mile End Hospital
London
E1 4DG
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