Speech and Language Therapist - London, United Kingdom - Whittington Health NHS Trust

Whittington Health NHS Trust

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Due to the re-location of the current postholder, we are looking for a dynamic and highly-motivated speech and language therapist to work in the team.

This post offers the chance to build on your assessment and intervention skills, while working alongside experienced colleagues.

It provides opportunities to further your coaching and negotiation skills in a service with high levels of parental satisfaction in the service provided.

You must be able to work sensitively with children and their families and collaborate with colleagues across health, education and social care.

We will offer you excellent professional development opportunities with a strong emphasis on clinical supervision and individual performance appraisal. As a large organisation there are opportunities for career progression and leadership training.

We are committed to supporting the well-being of our colleagues. We are supportive of flexible working patterns and are committed to ensuring equal opportunities and access for all.

Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role.

If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.

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.

The post holder is responsible for delivering a comprehensive therapy service to children in health centres and children's centres across Camden

You will provide assessment and intervention for individual children and groups of children and their parents/carers as well as supporting the team to develop the skills of those working with young children across Camden.

This may involve training and modelling of intervention techniques. They will require knowledge of video parent child interaction therapy and approaches to supporting children with autism.

The post holder is responsible for organising and managing their own caseload and in building and maintaining strong relationships with families and the team around the child.

The post holder will have excellent communication skills enabling them to overcome communication barriers, displaying an awareness and sensitivity to social, cultural and economic issues.

In particular they will need to be skilled in presenting complex information to parents/families and young people themselves in a way they are able to understand.

The post holder will need the ability to empathise in order to support and counsel parents/carers and children to accept the implications of presenting communication difficulties.