Speech & Language Therapy Support Worker

Job overview

Speech and Language Therapist Assistant

Are you interested in working alongside Speech & Language Therapists? Are you dedicated to making a difference?   This is a fantastic opportunity to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to become a Speech & Language Therapy support worker

We have an exciting new vacancy for a speech & language therapy assistant to work in our friendly hospital based Speech & Language Therapy team.   You will work directly with our service users who have a range of communication problems and swallowing disorders as well as assisting the clinical staff with a range of administrative and practical tasks.  Previous NHS experience and/or knowledge of what an adult acute Speech & Language Therapy team do would be an advantage.

We have excellent links with other MSE hospitals and our community partners.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this role are:

• To be professionally accountable and work independently, managing and prioritising your workload
• To use own knowledge, skills and initiative to perform tasks independently, accessing advice and supervision accordingly
• To communicate delegated factual information to patients, carers using persuasion, reassurance, tact and sensitivity
• To create individual resources such as communication passports, timetable etc to be used as part of therapist's intervention.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job descriptions.