Speech and Language Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Shiremoor; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in England seeks an innovative and caring Speech and Language Therapist to join their Complex and Additional Needs Team. This position involves working with children and young people, ages 2-19, with complex needs, delivering essential services in home, childcare, and school settings. The ideal candidate will receive in-house and external training and will work alongside a dedicated team to improve communication strategies and overall care quality.

Benefits

Access to professional training

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• Experience working with children and young people with complex needs.
• Ability to assess and manage speech and communication difficulties.
• Access to external training and professional development.

Responsibilities

• Work with children aged 2-19 with complex needs.
• Deliver and support a service in various settings.
• Collaborate with other therapists and support educational staff.

Skills

Speech and language communication strategies

Makaton signing

Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)

Social communication interventions

Education

Relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Complex and Additional Needs Team.

We are looking to recruit an innovative, caring and dynamic SLT who would like to develop their skills in speech, language and communication and eating/drinking difficulties, in children and young people with complex needs and learning disability.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

The post will involve working into the paediatric part of the Complex and Additional Needs Team, working with children and young people aged 2-19 years with a range of complex needs. The successful candidate will work across Northumberland or North Tyneside, working into children’s homes, childcare and nursery/mainstream school settings and specialist provisions.

The successful candidate will work alongside other Therapists to deliver a service to a varied caseload of children/young people; from those who are non-verbal and use a wide range of communication strategies such as objects, signing, AAC to those who use verbal communication skills and are working on developing and extending their speech, language and communication skills. the postholder will be involved in the assessment and management of speech, language, communication difficulties and communication environments, as well as supporting the children’s/young people’s parents/carers’ and/or educational staff to understand and support the child’s communication needs.

The successful candidates will have access in-house and where appropriate external training in eating, drinking and swallowing, Makaton signing, Talking Mats, AAC, social communication interventions etc.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Hayley Fawcett Job title: Clinical Lead SLT, CAN Team Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0191 2979031