Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Band 7 - Deafness
This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) to join our Children’s Community SLT Service, across Lambeth and Southwark, working with deaf children across the age range and their families.
Our team are involved in delivering high-quality services for children and young people (CYP) with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). Working with other leaders, you will shape and implement initiatives within the DC team and wider SLT team while developing your own leadership and expertise.
You will be part of a small team working with deaf children and their families across the age range from 0-19. We work in a range of settings including community clinics, homes, nurseries, schools and FE colleges.
This post holds a caseload, requiring strong clinical reasoning and decision-making to assess and support deaf children and young people, and to guide their carers and associated professionals.
Are you ready to take the next step in your leadership journey, enjoy supporting others, showing passion for improving outcomes at individual and system level?
Join a friendly, inclusive and supportive team that celebrates success, shares expertise and supports one another. Through peer support, networking and social opportunities, we value strong relationships and create a workplace where everyone feels welcome and thrives.
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What You'll Be Doing
- Providing highly specialist, autonomous clinical case management for deaf children with SLCN.
- Leading projects, training and service development within your specialist area
- Providing line management, supervision and mentoring to junior colleagues and students
- Advising parents, education staff and multi-disciplinary colleagues
- Leading team-wide initiatives on service quality and effectiveness
What We're Looking For
- HCPC registration and substantial specialist paediatric experience
- Proven leadership, negotiation and mentoring skills
- Experience contributing to service and policy development
- A genuine passion for raising standards and developing others
Evelina London is part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and we are responsible for providing services for women and children. With over 3,000 dedicated staff, and led by an Executive Team and Board, we have significant devolved autonomy to focus operationally and strategically upon the needs of our patients. We also benefit from being part of a large and successful NHS foundation trust, whose values we share. We have an ambitious strategic development programme, with backing from Guy’s and St Thomas’.
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Every year, the number of children and young people Evelina London cares for, in hospital and in the community, continues to grow. We provide comprehensive health services from pre-conception, before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. Evelina London is here for children, young people and women from London to South East England, and provides specialist care for families around the UK and across the world.
As the only NHS Trust in London with women’s and specialist children’s services on one site we have unique opportunities to provide excellent, high quality, integrated care for mothers, babies and children. We operate through four clinical directorates: Neonatology and Medical Specialties, Surgical Services, Theatres and Paediatric Intensive Care, Children’s Community Services and Women’s Services.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Susanna Keusch
Job title: Clinical Lead SLT - Deaf Communication
Email address: susannakeusch@nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07598550929
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