Highly Specialist SLT Pre-School Complex Needs | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 16 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inc HCAS |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 16 May 2024 |
| Location: | Harrow, HA2 9DX |
| Company: | CNWL NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6209823/333-G-HCS-0172 |
Summary
We have an exciting opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapist with highly specialist skills to work with children and young people (CYP) and their families with complex physical needs, dysphagia and communication difficulties across our community settings.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
You will join a diverse and highly skilled team of therapists working in community settings with 0-19s. As an SLT you will work within a strong multi-disciplinary team alongside physios and occupational therapists, who recently won CNWL’s Team of the Year Award. You will have strong links with professionals in health, education and other community services.
You will be based at Alexandra Avenue Health & Social Care Centre and/or Caryl Thomas Clinic where you will support pre-school children with complex needs across the Borough of Harrow. You will be working alongside health colleagues and Early Years practitioners to enable differential diagnosis of children with disability and dysphagia, and to ensure highly specialist therapy programmes and education plans are in place for the children under their care.
We are:
• CNWL’s Team of the Year 2023-24.
• A large supportive, sociable and friendly MDT team of over 35 Paediatric Therapists.
• Committed to the well-being of our staff.
• Easily accessible via public transport from central London and neighbouring Counties.
• Providing services to both community and acute settings.
We can provide:
• A warm welcome.
• Flexible working.
• Highly structured induction.
• Excellent levels of support and supervision which includes regular clinical and management supervision every 8 weeks and an annual appraisal.
• An identified buddy who will meet with you every week at first to help you settle in and who you can ask lots of questions.
• Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss cases, read articles together and share your experiences.
• Clearly defined caseloads.
• A wide range of opportunities for continuing professional development.
• Easy access to clinical specialists in all clinical areas.
• Designated admin and planning time.
• Involvement in innovative project work in acute and community settings.
• Memberships at relevant CENs are supported and encouraged.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification documents included within this job advert for further details on these elements of the role.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
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