Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 SLT to join our community SLT team, working in across our Early Years and Resource Base team(Cedar Resource Base - Granard Primary School). This role is ideal for people who are interested in developing their leadership skills at Band 7 level and contributing to the development of the service.

We are a friendly, supportive team who pride ourselves on our commitment to creating an equal and inclusive working environment for people of all backgrounds providing and evidence informed and based service for all our families. You will have:

• Experience of, and highly specialist skills working with, a diverse paediatric caseload 2-11 years old
• Experience of supporting the evaluation of service delivery in Special Schools/Resource Bases
• Experience in developing and delivering universal and / or targeted level offers to special schools and/or resource bases
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team
• Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary
• Enthusiasm, imagination, and initiative
• Understanding of the neurodiversity framework

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery within Cedar Base and the Early Years team.
• To demonstrate highly specialist clinical skills in an area relevant to the team you work in
• To lead/supervise others within the service and to act as a resource and support for other therapists working with children with speech, language, and social communication difficulties.
• To be responsible for the management of a caseload of children with developmental speech and language delays/disorders and social communication difficulties
• To provide line management to junior staff and SLTAs and participate in and provide clinical supervision and support as required.
• To work with parents, carers, school staff and other agencies involved in the children's care as well as part of a multi-agency team.
• To work as a member of the community paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team.

About us

The Children's Therapy team consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. Therapists work in multi-disciplinary/multi agency teams across the borough of Wandsworth.

We have a range of working parties to ensure we are utilising best practice including:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Neurodiversity
• Bilingualism
• Social emotional and mental health (SEMH)
• Supporting children who use echolalia to communicate
• Special school and resource base supervision network

We are very proud of our inclusive and proactive team of therapists and assistants providing evidence based and informed intervention to Wandsworth's children.