Highly Specialist Speech Language Therapist - SEND Therapy inHarlow inHarlow PUBLISHED THU 14 NOV 2024

Join us as aHighly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, in ourSEND Therapy ServiceinWest Essex.

We are looking for a Childrens Speech and Language Therapist to work with early years and school aged children, in their educational settings and their home, as part of our Special Educational Needs (SEND) Therapies team.

You will have the opportunity to workhybridbetween visits to local schools and completing virtual sessions from home on apart time basis.

The role has core hours during school times (with the occasional out of hours for meetings with school staff or parents)with the option to complete your additional hours flexibly.

As you will be visiting local schools as part of your role, a driving license and access to a vehicle is essential

Your key responsibilities will be:

• To work alongside our Community Therapies Team and support the therapy needs of children with Education and Health Care Plans.
• To will work with educational professionals (SENCOs, LSAs and teachers/parents and carers) in setting goals and implement Therapy plans, to integrate within their daily curriculum, as specified in the childs EHCP. This will include direct work with children, attending Annual Review meetings, updating reports, writing care plans,liaising with parents/carers and providing training, as appropriate.

About us

As aHighly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist, you will be part of our valued SEND Therapies Team in West Essex,receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 with Agenda for Change T&Cs including NHS pension
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you're encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality CommissionThe Ideal CandidateWe are looking for someone who:
  • Has a registered HCPC registration in Speech and Language Therapy
  • Be a registered with their professional body (Royal College of SLT)
  • Driving licence and access to vehicle

  Experience with the following client groups is desirable:

  • Hearing impairment;
  • Developmental Language Disorder;
  • Complex needs
  • Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC), including Makaton, light-tech and high-tech AAC;
  • Autism, Down Syndrome, Global Developmental Delay.