Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Join an award-winning NHS community health service where your expertise directly transforms the educational outcomes and life chances of children across inner London.

Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Come and join the CLCH SLT education team!

We have an exciting opportunity for a band 7 SLT to join our SLT education service. The role will include working in the mainstream education service in the inner London boroughs of Westminster, and RBKC. As a band 7, you will have a key role in service development and supporting others, and will join a friendly, experienced and knowledgeable team.

In the CLCH SLT service we are passionate about reducing inequalities and have an active diversity and inclusion ethos. Take a look at our recruitment video to find out more about working in our teams: CLCH S&L Recruitment - YouTube

What You'll Do

• Provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children and young people with speech, language and communication needs
• Have opportunities to take the lead on service development, and sharing of new learning and best practice
• Work in an innovative, knowledgeable, and supportive team
• Work jointly with parents, school teams and other professionals to develop a shared understanding of each child/young person's speech, language and communication needs and how these can be supported
• Help schools embed good universal and targeted practice within their settings
• Support parents, school staff and other professionals in all issues related to client management with multidisciplinary team liaison as an integral part of the role
• Understand and meet professional and legal SEND responsibilities outlined in the Children and Families Act 2014 including contributing to statutory assessments of special educational needs and delivery of SLT provision as specified in children and young people's Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
• Have accountability for own professional actions and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate
• Provide highly specialist clinical supervision, line management and peer review to other SLTs and students
• Support in the training and development of junior therapists in the team
• Have opportunities to further develop clinical supervision and line management skills
• Contribute to developments within individual teams and the broader service including in the development of policies and procedures relating to clinical care, evidence-based practice, care pathways and outcome development
• Deliver training to staff across settings to a variety of audiences including parents and staff in school settings
• Liaise with other colleagues across a range of statutory and non-statutory agencies
  
  

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

Benefits We Offer

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Car lease scheme *T&Cs apply
• Flexible working options
• Flexitime
• Annual travel card loan
• Training, support and development in your career
  
  

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Benefits

• Flexitime
  
  

Work Location: In person

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