The Hillingdon Speech and Language Therapy department is a friendly, enthusiastic team where we strive to provide services of high quality for the diverse population of the London Borough of Hillingdon.
The service over the years has built up excellent relationships with parents, service users and the local authority. The Hillingdon paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is commended for continually developing their service based on evidence, feedback and innovations.
We have an opportunity for a Full Time band 6 speech and language therapist to work in our Early Years Team alongside our SLT Assistants
We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and innovative therapists with a special interest and knowledge of working with children with a range of difficulties, to join the Early Years team. This post will require proficient skills in the assessment and management of pre school children, as well as working with other members of the team to support junior colleges and to continue to develop the service being offered. The appointed therapist will maintain up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines and policies related to service delivery.
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service for children 0-19 with SLCN.
To be part of the ADOS assessment team
To provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service to children 0-19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties- if already trained.
To support in the development of training packages to early years settings, staff / parents / other professionals, to support identifying concerns regarding the child /young persons needs and implement therapy advice effectively.
To be responsible for the performance management of identified team members
To support the team leader in the leading and development of the team
To be responsible with team leader support for service improvement initiatives.
To deputise for the team leader in the day to day management of the team as requested.

Please refer the Job description for details