Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 6 therapist, split across our Clinics and Community Paediatric Dysphagia teams.  We have a large team with SLTs across all bandings, SLTAs as well as admin support. We are consistently growing with new investment to continue to meet the communication/feeding needs of children in Wandsworth. 

Main duties of the job

You will need:

·       Experience and specialist skills working with children in their early years with a range of communication needs. 

·       Experience and specialist skills assessing, diagnosing, treating and managing a caseload of children with dysphagia (with support).

·       Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary.

·       Enthusiasm, imagination and initiative.

Main duties:

·       To assess, diagnose, treat and manage a caseload of children with complex developmental delays/disorders in relation to feeding and dysphagia in a community setting (with support and supervision).

·       To assess, treat and manage children with a range of communication needs, with and without an EHCP, in clinic.

·       Support and supervision of SLT students and junior staff.

·       Opportunities to join working parties to develop your skills in service development.

Working for our organisation

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, St George’s Hospital and Queen Mary’s Hospital, and many health clinics across the Wandsworth borough. 

The Children’s Therapy team consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. Therapists work in multi-disciplinary/multi agency teams across the borough of Wandsworth.

We have a range of working parties to ensure we are utilising best practice including:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Developmental Language Disorder
• Gestalt Language Processing
• Neurodiversity
• Bilingualism

We are very proud of our inclusive and proactive team of therapists and assistants providing evidence based and informed intervention to Wandsworth’s children.

We will provide:

• The opportunity to work within a highly skilled and experienced team of Speech & Language Therapists
• Access to a structured and supportive professional development process
• Access to regular line management and clinical supervision
• Wellbeing initiatives including craft and book clubs, away days and a newly started running club
• A fully inclusive therapy team with an award winning Diversity and Inclusion working party