Specialist Speech and Language Therapist -Early YearsNHS

Job summary

Are you an experienced, innovative, creative speech and language therapist? Would you like to bring your skills and ideas to help us deliver change and new services?

We have an exciting opportunity in our growing Speech and Language Therapy Service within our Early Years' service for children aged 0-5 years of age. The post is an integral part of the delivery of early identification, early support and early intervention for children with a range of speech, language and communication needs.

The Early Years' team offers specialist assessment, intervention and advice for younger children. This includes children with social communication difficulties, developmental language disorder, speech disorder, dysfluency and language delay.

The post holder will provide specialist assessment and intervention within clinics, Family hubs and children's centres, nurseries and education settings. There will be opportunity to deliver groups interventions and be involved in providing training and workshops for parents and Family hub staff and implementing evidence based early language programmes including ELSEC.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessment, differentially diagnoses and plan therapeutic approaches for children with speech language and / or communication difficulties.

To coach these approaches to parents/ carers and professionals working with the child across a number of early years settings including clinics, Family hubs, nurseries and school settings.

To independently manage a large and diverse clinic caseload, liaising with other colleagues in clinic where necessary and reporting directly to the Clinical Lead when required.

To provide a service which takes account of the needs of clients from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.

Job description

• To work jointly with more senior colleagues and other agencies to set up and deliver services through Family Hubs / Children Centres promoting Early Communication skills.
• To provide a specialist level of assessment, therapy and recommendations to children with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties in a variety of settings
• To work jointly with more senior colleagues and other professionals to take account of the specific communication needs of these children and plan therapy accordingly.
• To independently manage a caseload of children who have a diverse range of communication difficulties. This includes screening, assessing, providing therapy, training others and reviewing progress.
• To co-ordinate and take a lead in the joint planning and delivery of SLCN interventions including parent workshops, drop-ins, groups and staff training within the family hubs and early years.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.