Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Barts Health NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Barts Health NHS Trust invites applications for a position as a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. This role within the Integrated Community Children’s Therapy team involves assessing and intervening in complex pediatric communication needs, emphasizing teamwork, professional development, and a commitment to community care.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Professional development access

Support from senior staff

Qualifications

• Experience in assessment of eating, drinking, and swallowing.
• Experience with augmentative and alternative communication strategies.
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and diagnosis for children with eating and communication difficulties.
• Manage a caseload within a community clinic setting.
• Collaborate with other SLTs and provide clinical leadership.

Skills

Assessment

Intervention

Communication Strategies

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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This is an opportunity for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) to join the Integrated Community Children’s Therapy team within Barts Health NHS Trust. The successful applicant will have experience in the assessment and intervention of eating, drinking and swallowing and complex communication difficulties including augmentative and alternative communication strategies. The post holder will work across the community Eating and Drinking Clinic and an early years and primary special school.

The post holder will be supported by the Lead Speech and Language Therapist for Complex Needs and Dysphagia and will receive regular supervision and access to professional development opportunities. The post holder will be joining a highly supportive and innovative Children’s Therapy Department. The main office is at Mile End Hospital, conveniently located between Mile End and Stepney Green tube stations and serviced by local buses.

Flexible working will be considered. For more information about the post, please contact Gaynor Owen, Lead SLT for Complex Needs and Dysphagia on [e-mail] or 07927 683010

The Community Children’s Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Service sits in Specialist Community Children’s Services within the Children and Young People’s Division of Barts Health NHS Trust. It offers a community-based service to the children of Tower Hamlets and is delivered predominantly in clinics, schools, pre-school settings and service users’ homes. It aims to address the communication and eating and drinking needs of the child population through the provision of universal, targeted and specialist level services.

The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis and a variety of therapy and intervention approaches for children with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties and communication difficulties at a highly specialist level. The post holder will manage a caseload of children in a community clinic setting and a special school in Tower Hamlets, including providing clinical leadership and supporting for other SLTs and co-workers. The caseload comprises children with complex medical and developmental needs aged 0-19 years.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gaynor Owen Job title: Clinical Lead SLT for Dysphagia and Complex Needs Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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