Job summary
B7 SLT 1 year Fixed Term, maternity leave cover.1 day/7.5 hours per week (0.2wte)
The Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service (IANDS) provides a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency team approach to working with babies, children and young people with additional needs and complex disability. Within this service are teams providing assessment, diagnostic and therapy services to children and young people 0-19 years.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated Speech & Language Therapist with specialist experience of working with young children with severe speech difficulties and disorders, including Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS).
The post holder will work in the Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team which provides clinic-based assessment, support and intervention for children up to 5 years old with a range of developmental speech, language and communication needs.
The post holder will work at the Northern Health Centre and will manage the Speech Clinic. The postholder will provide specialist assessment and intervention to nursery and reception age children with severe and complex speech needs, including cleft lip and/or palate, CAS and other significant speech difficulties, often in association with other needs.
The post holder will also provide support to colleagues within the team and offer specialist advice and second opinions for children with speech needs.
We will offer you excellent CPD opportunities with a strong emphasis on individual performance appraisal and supervision.
Please see Job Description for full details of the role.
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work at the Northern Health Centre. The post holder will be experienced in working with pre-school children with a wide range of language and social communication differences. The post holder will be experienced in carrying out assessments, making differential diagnoses and using a variety of intervention approaches, including parent-coaching frameworks.
The post holder will have highly specialist knowledge and experience of working with young children with speech sound difficulties and disorders. They will provide expertise in managing the Speech Clinic, providing highly specialist assessment and intervention for a small caseload of nursery and reception age children with severe and complex speech needs, including cleft lip and/or palate, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and other significant speech difficulties, often in association with other needs.
The post holder will provide support to less experienced members of the team and offer specialist advice and second opinions for children with severe speech needs.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for organising and managing their own caseload. They will be innovative, an active participant in quality improvement projects and audits and will work alongside the Team Lead on recruitment, induction and service development as required.
Please see attached JD/PS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will work at the Northern Health Centre. The post holder will be experienced in working with pre-school children with a wide range of language and social communication differences. The post holder will be experienced in carrying out assessments, making differential diagnoses and using a variety of intervention approaches, including parent-coaching frameworks.
The post holder will have highly specialist knowledge and experience of working with young children with speech sound difficulties and disorders. They will provide expertise in managing the Speech Clinic, providing highly specialist assessment and intervention for a small caseload of nursery and reception age children with severe and complex speech needs, including cleft lip and/or palate, Childhood Apraxia of Speech (CAS) and other significant speech difficulties, often in association with other needs.
The post holder will provide support to less experienced members of the team and offer specialist advice and second opinions for children with severe speech needs.
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for organising and managing their own caseload. They will be innovative, an active participant in quality improvement projects and audits and will work alongside the Team Lead on recruitment, induction and service development as required.
Please see attached JD/PS.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Speech Path or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise
- Successful completion of highly specialist/expert short or post graduate courses relevant to field, e.g. cleft palate, CAS, parent coaching frameworks, Cycles, Core vocabulary
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Of a highly specialist range of assessment tools and procedures to evaluate speech in young children
- Of a highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to developing the speech skills of young children, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches
- Working with nursery and reception age children with a wide range of developmental speech, language and communication needs in clinic
- Working with young children with complex speech needs, including CAS and cleft palate
- Writing statutory assessment / EHCP advice
Desirable
- Mentoring, advising, supporting and clinically supervising less experienced SLTs and assistants
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Speech Path or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise
- Successful completion of highly specialist/expert short or post graduate courses relevant to field, e.g. cleft palate, CAS, parent coaching frameworks, Cycles, Core vocabulary
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent written communication skills
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Of a highly specialist range of assessment tools and procedures to evaluate speech in young children
- Of a highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to developing the speech skills of young children, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches
- Working with nursery and reception age children with a wide range of developmental speech, language and communication needs in clinic
- Working with young children with complex speech needs, including CAS and cleft palate
- Writing statutory assessment / EHCP advice
Desirable
- Mentoring, advising, supporting and clinically supervising less experienced SLTs and assistants
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
