Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	03 Mehefin 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£51,883 - £58,544 Pro rata per annum incl. HCAS
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	03 Gorffennaf 2025
Lleoliad:	Hillingdon, UB83NN
Cwmni:	CNWL NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7247813/333-G-HC-1481

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The Hillingdon Speech and Language Therapy department is a friendly, enthusiastic team where we strive to provide services of high quality for the diverse population of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The service over the years has built up excellent relationships with parents, service users and the local authority. The Hillingdon paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is commended for continually developing their service based on evidence, feedback and innovations.

We have an opportunity for a part time band 7 speech and language therapist to work in our Early Years Team alongside our SLT Assistants

We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and innovative therapists with a special interest and knowledge of working with children with a range of difficulties, to join the Early Years team. This post will require proficient skills in the assessment and management of pre school children, as well as working with other members of the team to support junior colleges and to continue to develop the service being offered. The appointed therapist will maintain up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines and policies related to service delivery.

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.
• To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service for children 0-19 with SLCN.
• To be part of the ADOS assessment team
• To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service to children 0-19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties- if already trained.
• To support in the development of training packages to early years settings, staff / parents / other professionals, to support identifying concerns regarding the child /young persons needs and implement therapy advice effectively.
• To be responsible for the performance management of identified team members
• To support the team leader in the leading and development of the team
• To be responsible with team leader support for service improvement initiatives.
• To deputise for the team leader in the day to day management of the team as requested.

We can offer you:
• A supportive, friendly team of speech and language therapy colleagues
• An identified buddy
• Regular supervision meetings with a senior therapist every 6 weeks, along with an annual appraisal
• Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, read articles together and share your experiences
• A busy but manageable caseload working with pre-school children
• Working with experienced assistants
• Opportunities to develop your clinical skills and knowledge through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists, membership of a SIG/CEN, opportunities to invite a senior therapist for a joint consultation

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 1500 Therapists / AHP’s in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.

CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession and therapies as a whole at all levels - both strategically and operationally.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our therapists reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and evidence-based practice is made possible by our strong links with local universities and our CNWL AHP Research Network.
1. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities.
• To provide highly specialist assessment and intervention for children 0-19 with Speech Language and or communication needs.
• To provide a highly specialist service to children 0-19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties.

· To complete outcome focused assessments under the SEND Reforms including for EHCP’s.

· To actively support and lead service improvement work streams across the CITS service including multidisciplinary initiatives

· To actively support partnership work stream development of a partnership pathway e.g. ASD

· To work closely with the rest of the CITS services










This advert closes on Wednesday 18 Jun 2025

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