Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Barts Health NHS Trust has a vision to be a high performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated speech and language therapist to lead part of our pathway for children under 5 with social communication differences (SCD).

The Under 5s SCD team is a team of speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and therapy support workers. The team are working to develop an integrated pathway for the families, including targeted interventions in Family Hubs and specialist intervention in family homes.

The therapist will be allocated a part of the pathway to lead and improve. There will be an element of service improvement in the role, as we develop the pathway.

The role will involve supporting and managing more junior therapists and engaging with external partners e.g. in Early Help and Health Visiting.

The role will involve coaching of parents and other professionals around the best way of supporting children with SCD.

Your primary base will be Mile End Hospital. You will also be expected to work in other locations across Tower Hamlets including Family Hubs and family homes., The Community Children's Therapy Service sits in Specialist Community Children's Services within the Children's Hospital.

The service offers a community-based therapies service to the children of Tower Hamlets and is delivered in clinic settings, early years provisions, schools, children and family centres and family homes. The service is staffed by speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and therapy co-workers.

We are looking to improve our pathway to address the needs of children with social communication differences under 5 years old.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.