Speech and Language Therapist
London, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 1 week ago
This exciting opportunity is for a full time permanent therapist within our Complex Needs Service based at Swiss Cottage Special School.
The Camden Complex Needs Speech and Language Therapy Team work within specialist provisions in the borough of Camden. You will be responsible for delivering a therapy service to children and young people (CYP) with complex needs in Camden. Swiss Cottage School is an OFSTED rated ‘Outstanding’ school for children and young people with complex needs aged 4-19 years. You will be a valued member of a multidisciplinary team based at the school which consists of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dieticians, school nurses, health care assistants, psychologists, teachers, teaching assistants and paediatricians.
You will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive and specialist service to CYP with complex communication needs which may include autism, cerebral palsy, profound and multiple learning difficulties and sensory impairments. Some CYP use AAC including Makaton signing, low and high tech communication aids. Intervention includes assessment, differential diagnosis and therapy for individual CYP or groups of CYP. A knowledge of communication strategies used with the client group is essential and may include the use of specific programmes e.g. attention autism, TEACCH. You will deliver individualised and specialist interventions to support the learner’s needs as identified in their Education Health and Care Plans. You will also be involved in providing targeted support to school and families.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Find out what it is like to work in our friendly, supportive teams which span hospital and community settings across vibrant and diverse North Central London first hand, visit www.whittington.nhs.uk/CYPrecruitment (you may have to copy and paste this link into your browser) to hear from some of our current staff about why they chose to join and stay at Whittington Health.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Pottage Job title: Clinical Co-ordinator Email address: natalie.pottage@nhs.net Telephone number: 07825 340919
The Camden Complex Needs Speech and Language Therapy Team work within specialist provisions in the borough of Camden. You will be responsible for delivering a therapy service to children and young people (CYP) with complex needs in Camden. Swiss Cottage School is an OFSTED rated ‘Outstanding’ school for children and young people with complex needs aged 4-19 years. You will be a valued member of a multidisciplinary team based at the school which consists of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dieticians, school nurses, health care assistants, psychologists, teachers, teaching assistants and paediatricians.
You will be responsible for delivering a comprehensive and specialist service to CYP with complex communication needs which may include autism, cerebral palsy, profound and multiple learning difficulties and sensory impairments. Some CYP use AAC including Makaton signing, low and high tech communication aids. Intervention includes assessment, differential diagnosis and therapy for individual CYP or groups of CYP. A knowledge of communication strategies used with the client group is essential and may include the use of specific programmes e.g. attention autism, TEACCH. You will deliver individualised and specialist interventions to support the learner’s needs as identified in their Education Health and Care Plans. You will also be involved in providing targeted support to school and families.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Find out what it is like to work in our friendly, supportive teams which span hospital and community settings across vibrant and diverse North Central London first hand, visit www.whittington.nhs.uk/CYPrecruitment (you may have to copy and paste this link into your browser) to hear from some of our current staff about why they chose to join and stay at Whittington Health.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Pottage Job title: Clinical Co-ordinator Email address: natalie.pottage@nhs.net Telephone number: 07825 340919
