# Specialist Speech and Language Therapist: Paediatrics

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: temporary
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year pa inclusive pro rata
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a part-time Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established Children's Therapy team.

The post holder will be responsible for performing advanced assessments of patients with diverse presentations and complex medical, physical, and psychological conditions, to develop and deliver individualized management/treatment programmes relevant to the specialty.

Key responsibilities include:

- Conducting advanced assessments and developing individualized management plans for children with feeding, swallowing, and communication disorders

- Working closely with families, carers, and the multidisciplinary team

- Delivering videofluoroscopic swallow studies within the West London Children's Healthcare VFSS service for North West London

- Supporting the Clinical Lead with service planning, coordination, development, and evaluation

- Providing multidisciplinary teaching for staff, parents, and carers

The post holder will be well-supported by the Clinical Lead Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, with a strong commitment to supervision, CPD, audit, service evaluation, and improvement.

This is a fixed-term contract post for 12 months against maternity leave.

Benefits include career development, flexible working, and wellbeing, as well as staff recognition schemes and optional benefits such as Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, and season ticket loans.

## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- advanced assessment and treatment approaches
- multidisciplinary team working
- clinical governance
- quality issues and audit

### Nice to have
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to specialty
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post

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