Bank Speech and Language Therapist

The Children's Integrated Speech and Language therapy Service for Hackney and the City is a unique collaboration between local health and education agencies. By pooling resources the service is able to provide high quality, comprehensive service to the children, young people and families within Hackney and The City. This post is a virtual working post in The Verbo Team. Verbo is an award winning online Speech and Language Therapy Toolkit.

The banding and allocation of the post will be agreed with the individual based on level of experience.

Please note the successful candidate will be required to travel to Homerton to employment checks and induction.

Whilst this is primarily a virtual post, Homerton Hospital will be named as the place of work, unfortunately if there are in person requirements travel costs cannot be reimbursed.

IT equipment may be available from Homerton dependent on number of bank shifts, this can be discussed with the Verbo and SaLT team., The post holder will provide a high quality speech and language therapy service to the Verbo team. There may be other opportunities in the future to provide a speech and language therapy service to children and young people in a range of settings including Children's Centres, Early Years Settings, Nurseries, Primary, Secondary, Special Schools and with Complex Needs.

The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of Verbo. This will include:

- Developing clinical content

- Contributing to ideas and development

- Leading on specific projects

- Working with a multi-professional team, including other SaLTs, a technical team, marketing advisors, videographers, web designers and many more

- Provide support and training to users

The post holder will attend relevant training in order to work towards more specialist skills and knowledge and participate in CPD and other developmental activities.

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.