Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
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Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
Following expansion to the service, we are seeking to appoint a dynamic and enthusiastic candidate to the role of Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist.
The role is offered at full-time and is located at Cedar House within our St. Michael's Community Hospital site within the School Age Speech & Language Therapy Team. The weekly hours for this role will be agreed at interview.
Our School-Age Speech and Language Therapy Service supports children and young people in Enfield with speech, language and communication needs, as well as difficulties with eating and drinking.
We work in partnership with children, young people, families, schools and other professionals to provide:
- Assessment of speech, language and communication strengths and areas of need.
- Individualised intervention and therapy programmes delivered in collaboration with families and educational settings.
- Assessment and support for eating and drinking difficulties.
- Specialist support for children and young people who stammer, have speech sound difficulties, or experience selective mutism.
- Written reports outlining identified needs, the impact on learning and social interaction, and recommendations to support positive outcomes.
- Training, advice and consultation for school staff to help create communication-friendly learning environments.
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We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role, and therefore advise submission of applications at the earliest opportunity.
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The post holder will have responsibility for carrying out highly specialist statutory assessment of CYP in order to inform the local authority process of identifying Special Educational needs and the provision needed to meet those needs. We are committed to:
- Co-production with families.
- Listening to 'the voice of the child' when working with children and young people (CYP) and actively involve CYP in target setting and evaluation.
You will also be responsible for monitoring statutory assessment reports written by more junior members of the statutory assessment team and providing clinical feedback and support in order to ensure quality.
You will be part of a team of Band 7 therapists who take the lead on triaging new referrals to the school age Speech and Language service. You will respond and give feedback to referrers and develop 'waiting well' strategies.
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He/she will participate in the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and supervise the work of LSAs/TAs.
About Us
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Eleanor Leeser
- Job title: Clinical Therapies Lead - SaLT
- Email address: eleanor.leeser@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0204 553 7707
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