Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

The Greenwich Children's Speech and Language Therapy Special School Service offers a range of services including to all primary and secondary Special schools within Greenwich. We have a broad range of specialisms within the team such as: Autism, Deafness, Developmental Language Disorder, Dysfluency and SEMH. We work closely across Early Years and Mainstream School teams to provide clinical support. The Speech and Language Therapy Service is part of the wider Greenwich Children's Integrated Therapies Service and work alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists. We have a robust CPD offer in-line with Health Education England's 'AHP Support Worker Competency, Education and Career Development Framework'. This includes training, shadowing, peers support groups.,

• To provide support and assistance to therapists working with children in the Royal Borough of Greenwich
• To carry out specific therapy and communication intervention programmes with children and young people with speech, language, communication needs (SLCN), Learning Difficulties, complex medical needs.
• To support students as they learn to use personalised Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) systems including power based and paper based systems
• To support Teachers, Learning Support Assistants and Parents/carers to enable children to fulfil their developmental potential
• To travel to and work across a number of different sites within a week
• To deliver training to parent/carers and other professionals
• To assist with administration duties as required including electronic case records, paper records, typing reports, therapy programmes, preparing and making therapy resources, photocopying, sending appointments, filing and data collection
  
  We are a well-established team of Speech and Language Therapists and Assistants that can offer fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated individual with experience and interest in working with school aged children and young people with SLCN.
  
  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. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care