Children's Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role., The role includes working with a range of paediatric client groups in clinics, homes and preschool settings across Sutton. The majority of the caseload consists of children from preschool age to the end of Year 3. The children on the caseload present with a range of complex speech, language, communication difficulties and Dysphagia.
Your duties will include carrying out assessments, individual and group therapy, writing reports and targets and training others. There will be opportunities for multidisciplinary work with health colleagues.
You will be working alongside the team and service leads to develop and promote the service with opportunities to take the lead in some projects.
Successful candidates will have demonstrable skills working with different client groups including Dysphagia. You should be flexible, organised and creative with good IT skills, and enjoy working with children, their families and other team members. You should also have excellent written and verbal communication skills, Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.

Sutton Health and Care's speech and language therapy team is a small and friendly team looking for a dynamic, self-motivated Speech and Language Therapist.
The successful candidate will have demonstrable experience working with children with speech, language and communication difficulties as well as those with eating and drinking difficulties.
This role would be an opportunity to extend and develop specialist skills in a variety of areas including Dysphagia.,

• Excellent written and oral presentation skills


• Good analytical, problem solving and reflection skills


• Good IT Skills: word, database, email, internet