Speech and Language Therapist | Barts Health NHS Trust
We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and creative speech and language therapist to join our team!
We are seeking a speech and language therapist to join our Early Language Speech and Language Therapy team within Barts Health NHS Trust. This is a recently formed team that supports children with difficulties with comprehension, expression, and speech.The successful applicant will work in community clinics, children and family centres, and various venues in Tower Hamlets.
This is an exciting time for our service as it is developing to better meet the needs of the community. You will be involved in universal, targeted, and specialist levels of support. You will be working with parents and children under five years of age (up to the end of Reception) in health and community venues.Our children have a range of needs and you will be involved in offering various interventions as well as raising awareness of early language development. The service as a whole works within the Care Aims framework and seeks to enable children to communicate more effectively and get the most out of home and school life.
The team is a supportive and friendly one where your enthusiasm, empathy, and creativity will be welcomed.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, and a variety of intervention programmes in the management of the under 5s caseload.
The post holder provides clinical support and may supervise more junior speech and language therapists, as well as providing day-to-day supervision of bilingual speech and language therapy (SLT) co-workers involved in providing a service to preschool / Early Years Foundation Stage children managed by speech and language therapy.
This specific post is in the Early Language Team, which supports children up to the end of Reception who have difficulties with comprehension, expression, or speech. The postholder may also be required to support other speech and language therapy teams working with under 5s.
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
This advert closes on Monday 21 Oct 2024