Speech and Language Therapy Assistant | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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? Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organization; with new values: We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care. Located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting and is for a fixed term. 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., This post offers a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant role on a fixed term basis, within Oxleas, as part of the Bexley Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service, based within the Joint Communication Team and Deafness team. We are looking for someone:

• To provide support and assistance to therapists and specialist teachers/preschool staff working with children in the London Borough of Bexley
• To carry out specific therapy and communication intervention programmes with children and young people with speech, language, communication needs (SLCN), Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), and children with Language Disorder in association with other diagnoses e.g. ASD, complex needs e.g. Downs Syndrome in a school setting.
• To carry out the above with children on the deafness caseload in a preschool and/or school setting (mainstream and/or resource provision)
• To carry out specialised techniques and procedures under the direction of a Speech and Language Therapist
• To support preschool and school staff, Learning Support Assistants and Parents/carers to enable children to fulfil their developmental potential
• 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 recognise our responsibility to ensure that safe working systems are in place for staff working with children, adults and families in their care. Please note that for some occupations we receive a high amount of applications and where this is evident the post will be closed and we will put a limit on the number of applications that we are able to receive. If you do not hear anything within 1 week of the closing date, please assume you have not been shortlisted. Please note all communication will be via e-mail so please can you ensure that you regularly check your e-mails. There is a possibility that if you have set filters on your incoming messages that this message could be delivered to your junk mail. It would be helpful if you could enable your settings so that messages sent are directly received to your inbox. Unfortunately the Trust will not be responsible for any correspondence which has not been received/read in light of the above. The Bexley Children's Speech and Language Therapy service is a dynamic and supportive team and we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through Continuing Professional Development (CPD). The Trust is committed to equal opportunities promoting diversity, developing supporting policies and operates a variety of flexible working arrangements.

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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.