Speech and Language Therapy Assistant-slta Eyc - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who enjoys working with young children and families and is interested in their communication.

They would work as part of our team as a speech and language therapy assistant. We are a large, friendly early years community Speech and Language Therapy team in Haringey.

The post holder will work across different clinics and nurseries in the Borough, assisting Speech and Language Therapists in planning and implementing therapy, making resources, and administration tasks including booking clinics.

Duties will include assisting the therapist in implementing therapy and assessment, supporting the use of augmentative communication with children, carrying out therapy sessions under supervision, modelling sessions to early years practitioners and support staff, keeping accurate case notes and carrying out administrative tasks such as supporting online parent workshops, taking messages, making appointments, scanning and uploading documents and making resources.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone.

Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff.

We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.

The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences.

We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work

To assist in planning and implementing therapy programmes under the direction of a qualified Speech and Language Therapist.
To make modifications to activities within these programmes to meet the needs of individual clients, taking into account cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
To carry out group and individual sessions to enable the successful assessment and treatment of clients.
To support the successful running of training and parent advice sessions.
To support the SLT in making appropriate referrals to other agencies aided by knowledge of general child development.
To undertake nursery visits as required.