Speech and Language Therapist - Band 5

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist. Work with diverse populations in schools and community settings, providing essential therapy services. Benefit from excellent supervision, training opportunities, and a supportive team environment. This role offers a chance to develop your clinical skills and make a positive impact on children's lives.

Benefits

Excellent supervision and support

Training and shadowing opportunities

Health and wellbeing activities

Qualifications

• Entry level position for newly qualified therapists.
• Opportunities for training and development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver therapy services to children in schools and community settings.
• Provide advice and training to school staff.

Skills

Teamwork

Communication

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

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We are looking for Band 5 speech and language therapists to come and join our ever expanding Children’s Community Speech and Language Therapy team. We are a department that promotes Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in our workforce. We value difference and welcome everyone.

We have a team of innovative, enthusiastic clinicians, delivering a range of Speech and Language Therapy services in partnership with parents, Health, Education, Social Services, Local Authority, Youth Offending Services and the voluntary sector working across Lambeth & Southwark.

We have established a good reputation for supporting new graduates into work through induction, mentoring and training from clinical specialists. We are open to employing as a Speech and Language therapy Assistant prior to registration to work as a Speech and Language Therapist.

We have a wide range of experience and specialisms including licensed trainers within the team. We have a well-established cycle of training in programmes such as Makaton, PCI, Lidcombe, Attention Autism, Hanen, etc. available as appropriate to the therapist’s post.

Our large, progressive team allows us to create multiple opportunities for staff to develop their clinical knowledge and skills with a wide range of specialist therapists to shadow and learn from directly and take part in varied development opportunities to expand people’s job experience.

We currently have a number of full-time permanent posts available for Band 5 speech and language therapists, split across our Schools and Early Years & Community teams.

Schools

To deliver a service to children within mainstream primary/secondary schools, Special Schools and Further Education settings. In addition, to provide advice, training and guidance to school staff, with the aim of reducing barriers to learning, promoting inclusion and cascading skills to staff.

Early Years & Community

To independently manage an early years caseload for children aged 0-19, providing assessment, specialist direct and indirect therapy delivered in health clinics, Children’s Centres, and occasionally, within nurseries and homes. To deliver training and health promotion to early years practitioners and parents/carers. To deliver services to children and families meeting identified outcomes through direct intervention, training, health promotion, early identification and advice.

We Can Offer You

• Varied and interesting work with a diverse population
• A professionally led, data and evidence based service
• Excellent supervision and support, alongside a commitment to learning and development
• Separate line management and clinical supervision to ensure strong clinical performance and development opportunities
• A range of training and shadowing opportunities
• An extensive range of hardcopy and online resources; including team-working applications, therapy applications, and online assessments
• Mobile and flexible home-working supported by 4G enabled laptop/device and smartphone
• Yearly opportunity to be considered for session swaps to different clinical areas
• Support from a friendly and sociable team – including a team choir, craft and other activities
• Access to a full range of health and wellbeing activities within the Trust, e.g. sports and social club, swimming pool, Cycle to Work scheme, psychological support
• EDI initiatives
  
  

Our Speech and Language Therapy department provides focused and clinically driven services across the community (Lambeth & Southwark) and commissioned settings in neighbouring boroughs. Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust consistently performs well in staff satisfaction rankings in NHS Staff Surveys.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Cath Thomas Job title: Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07598 550597

To get more of a sense of our department, why not visit;

Our website http://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/communityspeechandlanguage

Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/EvelinaLondonSLT

Our Trust sites https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/Home.aspx / https://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/our-services/services.aspx

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