# Speech & Language Therapist

**Company**: West London NHS Trust
**Location**: Hounslow
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £45,953 to £54,254 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Hounslow Speech and Language Therapy Team are seeking an enthusiastic and innovative Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) working in the Mainstream School Team. This exciting split post (3 days Mainstream/2 days Stammering) offers an opportunity to develop a specialism in stammering.

The Mainstream Schools Team provides both a consultative assessment service for school-aged students and a specialist stream which provides direct intervention for a caseload of children who stammer.

The team offers:

- Opportunities to develop an area of clinical specialism

- CPD opportunities

- A professional development infrastructure including Champion Roles, regular whole team meetings, and in-house continuing professional development training plan

- A comprehensive supervision/appraisal structure

- Flexible working hours

**Main duties of the job**

- Deliver specialist clinical decision-making, including assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, and general independent management of a diverse and highly complex caseload

- Be accountable for the development, delivery, and quality of services for children with speech, language, and communication needs

- Provide specialist knowledge/training/advice in specialist field, providing second opinions, clinical supervision, and working with students, volunteers, and assistants

- Deliver specialist training to the therapy team as well as to a range of professionals as appropriate

- Ensure effective joint working practice between own service, other speech and language therapists, and other relevant professionals

- Maintain an up-to-date, advanced level of theoretical knowledge and therapeutic evidence-based practice through Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities

**Benefits**

- Opportunities for professional development

- Comprehensive supervision and appraisal structure

- Flexible working hours

**Person Specification**

- Degree/diploma or other professional Speech and Language Therapy qualification

- Registered with HCPC

- Relevant experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist with some experience of working with deaf/hard of hearing children

- Experience of carrying out specialist assessments and intervention

- Experience of working within a multi-agency/disciplinary team

- Ability to write clear concise reports

- Advanced knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools

- Well-established knowledge of national policies and procedures

- Advanced knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions

## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Assessment and Intervention
- Multi-agency working
- Report writing
- Therapeutic interventions

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