Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Are you looking for a fabulous opportunity to start your journey in the world of Speech and Language Therapy as an SLT assistant? Then why not join our friendly and supportive team? We are a well-established team that can offer fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career. Would you want to join The Bexley Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Team, winners of the Children and Young People's Directorate Team of the Year award 2021?, In this role you will support assessment and development of children's speech, language and communication skills. You will work in nurseries and schools with groups, pairs and one-to-one with children, and offer support and advice to parents, carers and health and education colleagues. You may make occasional home visits with another member of the team.

You will have the skills to work independently, to demonstrate speech and language interventions with parents, carers and education staff, following a care plan devised by the Speech and Language Therapist. You will communicate with other professionals about the care plan. You will take part in developing and delivering training to education colleagues.

In addition, the role involves supporting the preparation of materials for delivery of therapy programmes, plus administrative and organisational duties to support the smooth running of the service. IT skills for electronic records and reports are required.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for
people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.