Job summary
- Main area
- speech and language therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (monday to friday 9-5 pm)
- Job ref
- 363-SS7184967
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Ham Lane Child Development Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £31,081 - £33,665 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Assistant -Complex Needs
NHS AfC: Band 4
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving 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.
Job overview
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 Complex Needs team.
· Do you want to make a difference?
· Do you want to develop your skills in an innovative team?
Our Complex Needs team works with children to support communication development and works with children who have difficulties with eating and swallowing. Most children we work with are Under 5 years old.
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: Sorcha Clark Sorcha.Clark@nhs.net
Main duties of the job
1.The post holder will work under the direction of a qualified therapist within the Children’s Complex Needs 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. person’s home, community settings, schools.
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- 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.
- To work independently in a variety of settings carrying out intervention packages and programmes, writing reports and updating clinical notes.
- To assist in SLT assessments (example: by actively observing children and writing formal notes), group sessions (example: co-lead or make resources) and nursery inputs (example: assist with training nursery staff).
- To use initiative and take the lead in researching, planning, organising and running groups (example: booking venue, reading literature on a specific developmental age) in the community, with a specific focus on promotion and development of children’s language, general communication abilities and modelling low and high tech AAC. Groups could be children’s therapy groups or groups for training parents/carers with or without their children present.
- To work alongside and under the supervision of SLTs to design and deliver individual and / or group therapy sessions for children (0 to 5 years) who are experiencing difficulties with eating, drinking and swallowing. To help parents/carers, who are also present at these sessions, to help learn to create enjoyable and non-stressful experiences around food.
Person specification
Education/ Qualification
Essential criteria
- GCSE or equivalent standard of education with emphasis on numeracy and literacy
Desirable criteria
- relevant child care qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working within a speech therapy assistant role
- Experience of working with children and young people
- Experience of working within a team
- Experience of working in a busy environment in an orderly and professional manner
- Experience of working of working in a community setting
Abilities/ skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Ability to work in a team
- IT literate and able to use Microsoft Windows/ excel/ power point software and use emails
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships and work flexibly as part of a team
- Ability to problem solve
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- Ability to adapt to changing environments/workloads
Other
Essential criteria
- • Able to travel around the Borough to different venues and settings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sorcha Clark
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Speech Therapy Complex Needs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07435734565
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