Whittington Health
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
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About the Role
We are offering an exciting opportunity for a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join Camden MOSAIC, providing specialist support for children and young people aged 0–18 years with complex developmental, communication, feeding, and swallowing needs. This varied role spans the Child Development Team, Feeding Clinic, and Whittington Dysphagia Outreach Service.
The successful candidate will hold a specialist caseload of children and young people with autism, intellectual disability, physical disabilities, feeding difficulties, and dysphagia. The role involves delivering assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and consultation, alongside coordinating the Feeding Clinic and Dysphagia Services.
Responsibilities
- Working within a well-established multidisciplinary team, the post holder will collaborate with paediatricians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians, education professionals, and partner agencies.
- Support children, families, and professionals to develop effective communication and safe eating, drinking, and swallowing skills across home, education, and community settings.
- Delivering training, supervising junior therapists and students, contributing to service development, and deputising for the Clinical Coordinator for SLT in Camden MOSAIC as required.
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About the Team
Camden MOSAIC and The Whittington Dysphagia Outreach Service are dynamic and innovative multidisciplinary teams working with infants, children, and young people aged 0–18 years with complex developmental, communication, feeding, and swallowing needs. We provide:
- Specialist assessment and intervention for children with social communication difficulties, autism, and intellectual disabilities.
- Multidisciplinary assessment and management of children with complex sensory feeding difficulties, including Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID).
- High-quality, evidence-based assessment, therapy, and consultation using a child- and family-centred approach.
- Specialist assessment, management, and review of infants and children with dysphagia (eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties) in clinic, home, and education settings.
- Training, advice, and support for parents, nurseries, schools, and other professionals to help meet children's communication, feeding, and swallowing needs.
- Close multidisciplinary working with families, education settings, and health professionals to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people.
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About Us
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.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Varsha Siyani
- Job title: Clinical Team Lead
- Email address: varsha.siyani1@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07469 284343
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