Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to join our Children’s Therapy team in Lincolnshire.

We are passionate about delivering high quality, evidence-based care. Partnership working is key to our work and we strongly believe that empowering parents/carers and professionals to support children's speech, language and communication needs is invaluable in effecting change.

As a team, we would describe ourselves as; caring, supportive, friendly, dedicated and innovative.

We are a values-based employer and firmly believe that employing the right person to join our team is paramount and once in the team, we can foster and nurture your clinical skills and knowledge through a range of peer support, CPD and shadowing/training opportunities.

Both posts involve working with children aged 0-19 with a wide variety of speech, language and communication difficulties in Family Hubs and schools.

Main duties of the job

Within these roles, you will have opportunities to; assess and diagnose children with speech/language/communication needs, plan and deliver therapy, empower parents/carers and professionals to support children with SLCN. You can also expect to receive weekly dedicated CPD time alongside the rest of the speech and language therapy team.

We are a dynamic group and value everyone's thoughts, ideas and opinions, we celebrate individual's achievements and ideas around service delivery and design.

Compassionate leadership is a core value of LCHS and our team and we are looking for individuals who are; compassionate, caring, open, honest, passionate, resilient and resourceful.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for details for more details and responsibilities of these posts.