Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Assistant -Schools | East London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £31,081 - £33,665 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 August 2025 |
| Location: | London, E15 4PT |
| Company: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7320344/363-SS7280480 |
Summary
Band 4 Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Assistant
Paediatric Community Services- Newham, East London Foundation Trust
We have an exciting opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapy assistant to join our Schools Speech Therapy team.
· Do you want to make a difference?
· Do you want to develop your skills in an innovative team?
Our schools speech therapy team works with children to support communication development and language enrichment. We work with children who have difficulties with communication, many of whom present with autism and complex needs.
The role includes: Supporting the Speech and Language Therapists during assessment and intervention of children
Delivering speech and language therapy groups
- Supporting the Speech and Language Therapy team with any administrative tasks such as making resources including communication books
- Supporting the team when running parent workshops.
- Independently running therapy intervention programmes and training sessions in community settings or on virtual platforms
If you have excellent interpersonal skills, awareness and sensitivity to the needs of clients from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds and are willing and able to work flexibly, we would like to hear from you.
For more information contact: Natalie Blanchard Natalie.Blanchard@nhs.net 07981282029
1.The post holder will work under the direction of a qualified therapist within the Schools Speech and Language Therapy Service.
2.The post holder will be required to carry their own caseload where they will carry out treatment programmes devised by the clinician. The post holder will accept an agreed range of clients and manage a delegated caseload in an appropriate environment e.g. community settings, schools, early years nursery.
3.The post holder will be required to work closely with the client to carry out therapy techniques and treatments, to demonstrate these to clients and carers. The post holder will be required, to carry out detailed observations and feedback the client’s response to therapy interventions.
4.The post holder will work alongside and under the supervision of SLTs to research, plan, organize, deliver and evaluate groups and individual therapy for clients aged 0 – 18 years, working closely with parents and carers.
5. The post holder will be required to make/develop and demonstrate resources that support the therapy activities, support delivery of training by the therapy team and will demonstrate safe and effective use of equipment.
6.The post holder, following essential training, will work alongside SLTs to plan, organize, run and evaluate training sessions and parent workshops.
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
1. To have a sound understanding of the role of SLTs and use this knowledge to assist them in the planning and delivery of SLT services to clients and families/carers attending the clinic. This involves creating communication books and resources to facilitate the use of AAC.
1. To work independently in a variety of settings carrying out intervention packages and programmes, writing reports and updating clinical notes.
1. To assist in SLT assessments (example: by actively observing children and writing formal notes), deliver school based group sessions (example: co-lead or make resources) and deliver school inputs for individual children demonstrating and modelling interventions to school based staff.
1. To use initiative and take the lead in researching, planning, organising and running groups/ parent coffee mornings or resource making sessions (example: booking venue, reading literature on a specific developmental age) in schools or at a community base, with a specific focus on promotion and development of children’s language,
1. To work alongside and under the supervision of SLTs to design and deliver parent workshops for parents of school aged children.
2. To support the schools service with clinical admin
This advert closes on Sunday 20 Jul 2025