Mainstream Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

6 months ago


Gateshead, United Kingdom Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you passionate about working with children and young people? Do you enjoy being part of a dynamic team who are dedicated to supporting the communication needs of children and you people? If so then this is the job for you.

A rare oporunity has arisen to join the Gateshead Children's Speech and Language Therapy Team as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant. Working as part of an innovative team, this role supports children and young people aged 2-19 whom have speech, language, and/or communication needs. The post holder will work under the supervision of enthusiastic therapist to provide therapy and support to children and their families.

To implement therapy programmes devised by Speech and Language Therapists for groups of children and individuals

To modify approaches and activities within programmes to meet requirements/contexts

To liaise with individuals involved with the patient including families and other professionals

To prepare therapy materials for own therapy and resources required by the Mainstream Speech and Language Therapy team

To support administrative procedures in the team as required

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

Deliver hands on clinical care to a designated case load of patients within Gateshead as a caseload holder for defined groups of patients

To contribute to the innovation of therapy resources and produce resources to support effective therapy for children on the mainstream caseload

To carry out administrative procedures for own cases and to support wider adminastruve procedures of the Mainstream Speech and Language Therapy team

To support the team approach to delivering new innovative models of care for patients across pathways and across providers as defined by the Community Services Business Unit and Community Paediatric SLT Team Clinical Lead

Follow systems and processes are in place to maintain patient safety in line with choose safer care programme in collaboration with the Community Service Managers Quality and Risk Managers and Clinical Lead.

Ensure the experience of our patients and their families is understood within the service and feedback is used to improve future service provision

To facilitate an environment where health promotions and informed patient choice is encouraged and developed to its maximum potential, within the available resources

Responsible on a day to day basis for work load and priority setting within agreed timescales, of self and others as required.



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