Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom East London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Band 7 - Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist: Paediatric Complex Needs and Dysphagia Service

Paediatric Community Services
- Newham, East London Foundation Trust

Are you an experienced Band 7 therapist looking for your next role? Are you a Band 6 therapist looking to specialise or develop more leadership skills? Are you interested in being a part of service development?

We have a very exciting opportunity in our Complex Needs Speech and Language Therapy team. We are looking for another Band 7 to join our team and manage a complex caseload of both dysphagia and communication cases while also building clinical leadership skills and up-skilling our junior members of the team.

We have areas of service development that we require a Band 7 therapist to lead on, with support from senior management. We provide training opportunities around Quality Improvement so that staff feel confident with developing ideas and potential projects. There is also the opportunity to participate in service audits.

To take a lead role in developing the Speech and Language Therapy service to children with complex needs & dysphagia, including developing care pathways and packages, developing assessment, therapy and training materials specific to this client group alongside the Clinical Lead for Complex Needs and the well-established Complex Needs team.

To provide specialist assessment and therapy for 0-16 children and young people in the areas of complex needs communication and dysphagia. This will likely include multidisciplinary working and liaising closely with hospital teams within Newham and larger referring hospitals.

To liaise with specialist teaching staff, classroom teachers and education support staff to provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy input to curriculum and programme planning.

Provide a consultative service when appropriate for Speech and Language colleagues around best practice in the field of complex needs & dysphagia.

Based at the child development centre, in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, close to the Olympic Park in the heart of London’s East End (with excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex). The children’s speech and language therapy service has a strong multi-agency work ethic with other services both within the trust and with partner agencies, and offers services across a wide range of care groups in the borough.

**we can offer you**:
An amazing working environment, with a warm, welcoming and supportive team of SLTs and colleagues who bring experiences from all over the world.

1:1 monthly supervision, appraisal and CPD

Team learning programme

Protected service development time and regular team away days

Opportunity to supervise and develop junior staff

Monthly team meetings and band 7 leadership meetings

On-going clinical skills development, MDT working

Opportunity to lead service improvement

Involvement in audit and quality improvement

To maintain close links with Speech and Language Therapy staff working in Early Years, School Age and Adult Teams within the trust to ensure smooth transition between phases as required.

Provide a consultative service when appropriate for Speech and Language colleagues around best practice in the field of complex needs & dysphagia.

Provide colleagues with the opportunity to extend their knowledge in the field of complex needs & dysphagia, encouraging staff development and advising service managers of specific needs.

To provide specialist training to Health and Education colleagues on a range of topics e.g. ‘Supporting Children with Complex Needs & Dysphagia in the Mainstream Classroom’.



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