Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist- Statutory Assessment

Job summary

We are excited to offer a fixed term for one year 1.0 wte Band 6/ 7 Speech and Language Therapy role to cover Maternity Leave

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.

He/she will participate in the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and supervise the work of LSAs/TAs.

Main duties of the job

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. To be responsible for the highly specialist assessment and diagnosis of the full range of communication disorders in children.
2. To provide highly specialist advice to staff on supporting communication to meet the strengths of the children and young people in the school setting
3. To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge in complex needs/SEMH/trauma informed practice and their impact on communication development and intervention underpinned by current evidence based practice.
4. To be skilled in Listening to 'the voice of the child' when working with children and young people (CYP) and actively involve CYP in target setting and evaluation.
5. To 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.
6. 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.
7. To provide advice to parents and carers regarding the impact / likely impact of their child's learning needs / physical needs on their child's communication development.

About us

The North Middlesex University Hospital, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children's community services in Enfield.

In January 2025 we joined the Royal Free group: it is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

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 ICSs, 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.