Children's Speech & Language Therapist - Band 5 or Newly Qualified
| Posting date: | 17 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £35,763.00 to £43,466.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £35763.00 - £43466.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 July 2025 |
| Location: | Bromley, BR2 9JG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | B9848-25-0152 |
Summary
The post holder is responsible to safeguard children, young people and adults at risk. To provide a speech and language therapy service to patients with communication and/or swallowing disorders with appropriate support from asupervisor. To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment, leading to decisions about intervention/treatment, seeking advice as appropriate. To communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/otherprofessions. To maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of patients/clients and their careers in particular when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the patient/clients difficulties and implications of the same. To initiate and provide a variety of treatment options according to patient's needs, including the use of interpreters as appropriate, with support from senior therapists. To negotiate and work closely with clients, carers, other professionals and families, agreeing decision-making and prioritisation relevant to the patient/clients management, devising agreed care plans based on bestpractice, seeking advice as necessary. To use methods of alternative communication e.g. signing, symbols, speechsynthesisers after training to maximise the clients communication. To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues, aiming to achieve effective communication, particularly where barriers tounderstanding exist.