Band 6 Speech and Language TherapistNHS
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Speech and Language Therapist to work in two Barnet special schools Northway School and The Windmill School.
The successful candidate will deliver a Speech and Language Therapy Service to children and young people in these schools with a range of language and communication needs. This role will offer the job satisfaction of knowing you are helping to shape and improve the quality of life of children and young people living in Barnet.
You will work with close supervision and support, alongside a friendly, open, supportive and experienced therapy team to deliver assessment and intervention for children and young people with a range of speech, language and communication needs. You will also provide training and advice to empower their families and education staff.
For further information, or for an informal discussion, please contact [email protected]
We look forward to hearing from you!
Main duties of the job
Please see the Job Description and the Persons Specification for further details about the job role. If you are unable to access the PDF, the details of the job description can also be found in the 'Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities' section.
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Job description
Key Responsibilities:
Clinical
To provide a comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy service to clients with speech, language and communication difficulties within two special schools in Barnet - Northway School and The Windmill School.
To deliver appropriate formal and informal assessment, make differential diagnosis on the basis of this assessment, and communicate related information to children, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions in a sensitive manner.
To design and develop evidence based treatment and management programmes to be implemented within the multi-disciplinary teams available, and within the childs family.
To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
Research and Development
To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence based practice, literature and peer review.
To undertake Clinical Governance and Audit projects within the local service
Please see Job description and personal specification for full outline of main role and responsibilities
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 Trustbelieves 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.