We are excited to offer an opportunity to join our Early Years Speech and Language Team, supporting children under 5 years old with all types of communication difficulties.
We would consider applications from both existing Band 5 Therapists looking for a Band 6 role or students graduating this year, who will have the opportunity, in post, to develop into a band 6 position.
We are looking for creative, enthusiastic and motivated Therapists to join an innovative, supportive and welcoming team.
We can offer you:
- A commitment to your continued professional development, including a termly journal club looking at articles relevant to developing the service and knowledge of communication difficulties.
- A dynamic, innovative supportive and friendly team committed to providing quality care. The team won the Trust award for innovative services in 2021.
- Staff reporting high levels of job satisfaction with staff turnover figures half the national average figure.
- A strong ethos of collaborative working and user consultation.
- Regular supervision from senior therapists as well as peer supervision in areas such as ASD, safeguarding.
- Flexible approach to meeting your needs within the role
This post is within our friendly, supportive and innovative Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Team.
You will work in our core team offering intervention for parents and children under 5 years old in a range of communication difficulties. We work closely with parents and early years practitioners, providing workshops and 1:1 sessions, both virtually and face-face. You will also be assessing children to determine their correct clinical pathway and providing assessments as part of the EHCP process. In addition, you will be involved in service development and audits.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London’s busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond.
Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients’ wellbeing.
We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families.
For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/
To manage a defined caseload of early years children with speech language and communication needs with support from senior colleagues. This includes:
Gaining appropriate consent
Assessment and differential diagnosis of individual children’s needs
Planning, delivering and evaluating treatment programmes in close collaboration with parents and nursery staff to support access to learning and social development.
Referring on to other services/professionals as appropriate
Negotiating with CYP parents/carers, and others around individual case management
Provision of written clinical reports and care plans.
Seeking support on the management of more complex cases
To provide advice and programmes to others regarding the management and care of children with speech, language and communication needs
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and manage clinical risk within defined caseload.
To develop the ability to monitor and reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. This includes adapting and facilitating own communication according to perceived client needs.
To recommend and implement alternative/augmentative communication programmes and equipment necessary to meet individual needs. This includes sign language, symbol systems and communication books.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers/clinical supervisor and seek support as necessary.
To develop the ability to target training (formal and informal) appropriately to the needs of course participants, in particular parents and early years staff, and to develop the ability to reflect on and evaluate training provided.
To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies.
To gather client related activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information.
Please see JD/PS for more detailed information.
