Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 18 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | £49,178.00 to £55,492.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £49178.00 - £55492.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 May 2024 |
| Location: | Ealing, W5 2PJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9333-24-0911 |
Summary
Our vision Keeping children and young people's education, health and well-being at the centre of decision making to achieve the best possible outcomes. Ealing Speech & Language Therapy Department feel strongly that Continual Professional Development is central to the delivery of the service and the development of the staff who work within it. The department offers a wide range of opportunities for CPD and is committed to providing excellent levels of support and supervision such as; shadowing opportunities, peer support groups, supervision sessions, journal clubs, specialism groups and whole department training days. Ealing Speech and Language Therapy department is a friendly team. We are committed to providing care and services which are inclusive and treat everyone with respect. We have a committed equality, diversity and inclusion group who are working to ensure we are an actively anti-racist team. We are fortunate to work in Ealing, one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in the UK, and we are striving to ensure our team reflects the communities we serve. We seek to ensure we are allies with our LGBTQ+ colleagues and families as well our neurodivergent colleagues and families. Main Responsibilities This post involves: - Providing assessment of speech, language and communication skills to young people within the YJS. Providing appropriate specialist intervention where required and evaluate outcomes within the YJS Making appropriate onward referrals Working as part of MDT to facilitate support and therapy programmes Developing clear packages of care based on best practice To be able to reflect on aspects of a young persons communication and identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness, monitor the effectiveness of speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice being delivered by other relevant professionals/parents and adjust as necessary Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on the role. When completing thesupporting informationsection of your application, please ensure you show how you meet each of the criteria of the person specification providing illustrative examples where possible; as this is what you will be shortlisted against. For further details / informal visits contact: Rachel Smith - Clinical Lead for Mainstream Schools: rachel.smith32@nhs.net