Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Whittington Health NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 35,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK seeks a part-time Specialist for Young People to deliver tailored speech and language therapy services. This role involves working with individuals with communication difficulties, helping to create supportive environments within educational settings. Candidates should have relevant experience or training in working with complex needs. This position offers a collaborative and supportive work culture with opportunities for professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a highly specialist service to young people and young adults in post-16 college provisions.
• Conduct assessments and therapy for individuals or groups.
• Provide targeted and universal support to colleges and families.

Skills

Consultative skills

Clinical skills

Ability to work with AAC

Communication strategies

Job description

Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a part‑time (3 days per week) post within the Camden SLT Service for Young People, initially for a 12‑month fixed‑term contract (with likelihood of extension). Candidates who are currently band 6 or newly developing as band 7s, or developing their experience and/or specialism with this client group, are welcome to apply. The post involves provision of SLT service within a multi‑site Post‑16 College group, working as part of the Service Level Agreement (SLA) with young people and adults aged 16‑25 who have a range of language, communication and learning difficulties, alongside college staff and families. The role includes consultative and clinical skills, up‑skilling teaching and support staff, ensuring communication‑friendly environments, and providing short‑term interventions to specific students.

Work Culture

Feedback from staff highlights a supportive and open culture from management, friendly colleagues, prioritised well‑being, emphasis on reflective practice and innovative ideas, inclusive culture, and collaboration within SLT and wider multi‑professional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver a highly specialist service to young people and young adults in post‑16 college provisions, and to college staff.
• Work with learners with a range of communication needs, including learning disabilities, autism, Down's syndrome and sensory impairments.
• Provide services for learners using AAC, including Makaton signing and low‑ and high‑tech communication aids.
• Conduct assessments and therapy for individuals or groups.
• Apply knowledge of communication strategies used with this client group.
• Carry out audits and develop communication‑friendly environments.
• Provide targeted and universal support to colleges and families.
• Upskill staff teams and deliver training and coaching on learner support.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.