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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
B6
0.5 wte (18.75 hours per week)
Are you a Speech & Language Therapist looking for a chance to establish your skills or for an opportunity to further develop your skills as part of a highly motivated, dynamic and supportive SLT team, on the beautiful Isle of Wight, situated a few miles off the English South Coast?
Are you committed to the Speech & Language Therapy profession and keen to provide a high quality effective service to children and families to improve the children’s outcomes?
If your answer to these questions is “yes”, you could be one of the people we are looking for to join us on the Isle of Wight.
This role requires a flexible and innovative Speech & Language Therapist to work within a dedicated Children’s SLT team and is committed to supporting children and families with communication and feeding difficulties.
This B6 post is a specialist generalist SLT primarily working with preschool and reception age children. We would also consider applications from a B5 SLT with a keen interest in developing a specialism in working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties.
It is an opportunity to work alongside highly specialist therapists across other disciplines and you would have the opportunity to participate in service development to support implementation and delivery of an effective needs led service with the Children’s Therapies Cluster Lead as well as the rest of the Speech and Language Therapy team.
The Speech and Language Therapy Service provides an excellent clinical supervision programme, active professional development, service development working parties and actively supports student placements from a number of Universities.
You will need to/have:
The Isle of Wight NHS is committed to personal development via supervision, a friendly network of colleagues, post-graduate and in-service training as well as support for CPD.
You would be based within a friendly and supportive Children’s Therapies Team at St Mary’s Hospital, in an NHS Trust with a commitment to personal development and in-service training. This post requires travelling to pre-schools/schools, children’s centres and other community settings, so a car driver is essential.
Interviews will be held via Microsoft teams or face to face in a suitable space.
If you believe you meet the criteria of the person specification and would like to join the Isle of Wight NHS Trust at this time, we would be interested in receiving your application.
Contract: 18.75 hrs Permanent
Salary: Band 6
Please make any informal enquiries to:
Becca Burr Cluster Lead for Children’s Therapies becca.burr@nhs.net
Amie Hotchin Highly Specialist SLT amie.hotchin@nhs.net
01983 822099 ext. 6152 (Becca Burr) or 534502 (Amie Hotchin)
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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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