Senior Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service are looking for a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant to join our large, diverse and supportive team, working across the Early Years and School-Aged pathways. The role will involve working in health centres and clinics, nursery settings and schools across the borough of Lewisham, working with children and young people aged 0-19 with a range of speech, language and communication needs., + Supporting our Speech and Language Therapy drop-in clinics
+ Undertaking observations and contributing to assessment and information gathering as well as working independently or with colleagues to deliver speech and language interventions to children on the caseload, under the guidance of qualified therapists
+ Working with children and young people individually and in group settings
+ Supporting delivery of training and workshops to parents/carers and education staff
+ Providing a range of technical and administrative support to the service
+ Taking responsibility for specific areas of work as delegated, such as taking photographs and video, making appointments and producing resources for therapy and/or training.

Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the
patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of
engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream, + Accountable to the Head of Therapies, Team Leads and other AHP Clinical Specialists
+ To work independently as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant, undertaking observations, informal/formal assessments, and therapeutic interventions, within their scope of clinical competence, on an individual and group basis with children seen by the team, within the under the guidance of qualified therapists.
+ To provide a range of technical and administrative support to the service, taking responsibility for specific areas of work as delegated, such as taking photographs and video, making appointments, and producing resources for therapy and/or training.
+ To help provide clinical support to the service when necessary, including non-direct and direct work with children, their families/carers and early years/school staff, and making and maintaining resources to support clinical interventions.
+ To assist in the provision of high quality clinical administrative support to the team, being competent to carry out all the basic admin tasks whilst taking responsibility for specific areas of work which align themselves with the clinical work undertaken.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce are reflective of the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women's staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note, not all roles will meet the criteria for a skilled worker visa.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 - the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King's College London's GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.