Band 3 Speech and Language Therapy Assistant, Newham - London, United Kingdom - East London NHS Foundation Trust

East London NHS Foundation Trust

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1 week ago

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Band 3 Speech and Language Therapy Assistant,Newham

Following additional funding, Newham's Speech and Language Therapy Service is expanding.

We are looking to recruit innovative, creative, passionate and committed Speech and Language Therapy Assistants (SLTA) to work in either the Early Years or Schools service.

If you have previously worked as an SLT assistant, a teaching assistant, a health care assistant or a therapy assistant and fancy a new challenge, bring your skills and ideas to our supportive team to help us deliver change and new services together.

We work with children aged who have speech, language and communication needs, including autism, complex needs and developmental language disorder.

Within the Early Years SLT Service:
We mainly work with children who are between 2 years to 5 years old. Sometimes we work with children who are older depending on their needs.

We work in community clinics as well as local Children's Centres, nurseries and libraries offering assessment, intervention, workshops and training to staff and parents / carers.

Within the SLT service to Schools:

Children are aged from 4 years up to 16 years, and there may be opportunities to work with children within nursery settings.

Our office is in a community clinic, from where the team go out to primary and secondary schools within Newham.

There is a well-established Buy-In Traded Services offer to schools, as well as a core service which provides assessment of children and universal training for school staff and parents / carers.

The whole SLT team works very closely with other agencies such as Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Paediatricians, SENCos and the Local Education Authority.

We are a committed, creative and supportive team consisting of Speech and Language Therapists and SLTAs.

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.

The role will include:

Supporting the Speech and Language Therapists during assessments
Supporting the Speech and Language Therapy team with any administrative tasks
Contacting parents to book in appointments
Supporting the team when running training sessions and workshops either in person or on virtual platforms
Following training and discussion with a Speech and Language Therapist, running therapy intervention programmes and training sessions (Schools SLT Service only)
Supporting the Speech and Language Therapists and Senior SLTAs in running group intervention packages in clinics, Children Centres and libraries (Early Years SLT service only)

We will offer you:

Monthly supervision with a named supervisor
A friendly and supportive team
Training opportunities
The chance to work within a multidisciplinary team as part of the outstanding East London NHS Foundation Trust (ELFT)

Please refer to the Job Description for more detailed information about the job role.

Newham is close to London's Olympic Park, and Stratford Station has excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex.

The Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service has a strong multi-agency work ethic with other services both within the trust and with partner agencies, and offers services across a wide range of care groups in the borough.

Newham has a diverse and culturally rich community.

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.