# Highly specialist speech & language therapist - Early Years Team

**Company**: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Uxbridge
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £55,524 to £62,652 a year
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are looking for a passionate speech and language therapist to work in the Hillingdon Early Years team supporting children and young people who have a speech, language or communication need. You will be part of a supportive band 7 team and take a lead in developing projects and supervising more junior staff.

**Main duties of the job:**

- Provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service for children 0-19 with Speech Language and or communication needs.

- Be part of the ADOS assessment process.

- Provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service to children 0-19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties.

- Support in the development of training packages to early years settings, staff / parents / other professionals.

- Support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators, maintaining Target Activity Levels and demonstrating impact re quality and outcomes.

- Lead on quality governance, audits and projects for the team/service.

- Be responsible for the performance management of identified team members.

- Support the team leader in the leading and development of the team.

**Benefits:**

- A buddy who will meet with you every week at first to help you settle in.

- Regular supervision meetings with the team leader every 6 weeks, alongside annual appraisal and informal support.

- Termly peer supervision meetings.

- Regular meetings with the other band 7 SLTs.

- A busy but manageable caseload.

- Opportunities to develop your clinical and leadership skills and knowledge.

**Requirements:**

- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent.

- Further training courses relevant to the post.

- Attendance at special interest group/ clinical excellence group.

- Health and Care Professions Council licence to practice.

- Registered member of relevant organisation eg Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.

- Extensive experience of working in a mainstream/special school as a therapist.

- Training and experience of working with children with eating and swallowing difficulties.

- Experience of working within multidisciplinary /multi-agency team.

## Skills

### Required
- Speech and Language Therapy
- ADOS assessment
- Swallowing and eating difficulties
- Training package development
- Quality governance
- Performance management
- Team leadership

### Nice to have
- Leadership
- Audit
- Research
- Special interest group participation

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