Speech and Language Therapist (Senior Advisor) x 2
London Borough of Hounslow
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Job summary
London Borough of Hounslow is recruiting a Speech and Language Therapist to join the Specialist Practice & Advice Service. You will provide expert advice, deliver training, and support families, schools and multi-agency colleagues.
The role emphasizes early intervention, collaboration, and innovative practice across settings, with opportunities for professional development and supervision.
Qualifications
- Qualified SLT with HCPC registration.
- Member of RCSLT with newly qualified competencies.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
Responsibilities
- Provide and coordinate specialist advice and support for children with speech, language, and communication needs.
- Develop innovative ways of working across universal, targeted and specialist levels.
- Work with schools and settings to implement early intervention approaches.
- Contribute to assessment, consultation, and wider strategic work.
- Deliver training, modelling and coaching to up-skill the wider workforce.
Skills
Education
Job description
We'd love you to join us at the London Borough of Hounslow! Our people are deeply committed to providing excellent services to our residents, doing all we can to make lives as good as they can be.
We are an outstanding council, serving an outstanding borough. With brilliant, visionary leadership, a dynamic Cabinet and a can-do culture, we've built strong partnerships which have transformed how we serve one of London's most diverse boroughs. Hounslow is the world in one place and full of potential. We are stepping up for our residents like never before.
We live by five core values: Lead with Heart, Do New, Pass on the Power, Harness the Mix and Be a Rock. All our work has equality, diversity and inclusion at its very heart, best articulated in "Harness the Mix". It's about breaking down barriers between our parts and people and unlocking the problem-solving power of our amazing mix of minds. We serve a diverse community, we have a diverse workforce and we are committed to being an inclusive employer.
We work hard to create representation across our workforce and leadership community, we have thriving employee network groups and our learning and development programmes help us lead, model and breathe ways of working that eliminate inequality, inequity, injustice and bias.
As part of this and under our commitments as a Disability Confident Employer, we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates. There's space for you to tell us what you need within our application form.
If you join us, you'll have access to a range of employee benefits. Read more about these here.
Join a Growing, Forward-Thinking Specialist Practice and Advice Team
Hounslow is expanding and evolving its Specialist Practice & Advice Service, and we are looking for passionate and motivated Speech and Language Therapists to join us at an exciting time of transformation.
The therapies team is part of a newly developing multi-disciplinary service - Specialist Practice & Advice - which brings together Speech & Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Educational Psychologists, Portage, Early Years practitioners, and specialist teachers. This creates rich opportunities for integrated work focussed on inclusive practice and early intervention, that goes beyond traditional models of Speech and Language Therapy services.
- Provide and co-ordinate specialist advice, consultation and support to ensure children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs are fully included and supported
- Develop and use innovative ways of working to support children and young people across universal, targeted and specialist levels, including supporting delivery of the DfE "Experts at Hand" initiative
- Develop skills across a wide range of ages and settings, including early years, primary, and secondary settings
- Work closely with schools and settings to develop early intervention approaches
- Contribute to assessment, consultation, and wider strategic work
- Deliver training, modelling and coaching to up-skill the wider workforce and build capacity
- Build strong partnerships with families, schools, and multi-agency colleagues
- Support and supervise other team members, with opportunities to develop your skills and lead on projects within the team
- Play a key role in improving outcomes for Hounslow children and young people
Our service is committed to keeping the voice of children and young people at the centre of everything we do
This role will best suit someone who has completed their newly qualified competencies and is interested in further development and working in innovative ways.
This role sits within the multidisciplinary Specialist Practice and Advice team. The Specialist Practice and Advice team provides professional advice and guidance to support the inclusion of children and young people across Hounslow schools and settings
- A supportive and ambitious environment, where you will receive regular supervision from a Speech and Language Therapist
- A range of professional development opportunities, including opportunities to develop skills in training and coaching, and learning from the wider multi-disciplinary team
- Support to further develop relevant areas of clinical interest, in line with service needs
- Be part of a rapidly developing, innovative service model
- Contribute to early intervention and systemic work at scale
- Participate in the rollout of the DfE "Experts at Hand" initiative, with protected time to engage in consultation, workforce development, and preventative work
- Collaborate daily with a wide multi-disciplinary team
- Influence outcomes across education, health, and care systems
- Develop skills working with a range of ages, in a wide range of settings including primary and secondary schools, early years settings and Family Hubs
- Strong culture of evidence-informed and reflective practice
- Opportunities for training delivery, coaching and supervision of practitioners (e.g. Elklan)
- Structured support and regular supervision
- Pathways into supervision and leadership for experienced colleagues
- Hybrid working with high autonomy and flexibility
- Strong CPD and team support
Are you a qualified Speech and Language Therapist looking for a new and exciting challenge?
- You have a strong grounding in evidence-based and high quality practice
- You are committed to inclusion, equity, and early intervention
- You enjoy collaborative and multi-disciplinary working
- You are motivated to contribute to service development and innovation
- You have strong communication skills to liaise and collaborate with multi-agency professionals, parents and carers
- You can provide expert advice and practical strategies around speech, language, communication and interaction
- Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
- Registered as a Speech and Language Therapist with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- A member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) with completed newly qualified competencies
- Enhanced DBS
- Commitment to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people
- Flexibility to work across different settings within the local authority
Read more about the work you’ll be doing in the role Profile.
The key information you need about the role should be in the role profile, but if you have any further questions about the role, please contact:
Email: Amy.Davis@Hounslow.gov.uk
Interviews to be confirmed.
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