Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job overview

The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway.

The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands.

You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.

Main duties of the job

• Co-Lead on the provision of Complex Needs and Dysphagia services for community paediatrics in Barking and Dagenham. The role is a Dysphagia and Complex needs split depending on service demand and need.
• Work closely with clients, carers, families and professionals to raise awareness, knowledge and skills related to the range of strategies that improve feeding outcomes across settings
• Be able to further develop your interests and skills in an area/ areas of interest and expertise
• Contribute to both speech and language therapy and multi-disciplinary team working to ensure co-ordinated service provision
• Lead a small team of therapists and assistants working in your Pathway.
• To provide supervision of colleagues and peer support
• Deliver comprehensive formal and informal assessment and make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment findings
• Develop evidence based intervention programmes, adapt and facilitate therapy according to client centred needs
• Provide highly specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents/carers, education staff, multidisciplinary team members and other colleagues.
• Be involved in the Service Development of the SALT team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.

Please get in touch if you think you could bring something to the role and are interested in joining our team (even if you don't meet all of the role requirements!)

We will consider a suitable developing band 6 to band 7 candidate for this role.