Ealing Community Partners: NHS, Ealing Council, voluntary and specialist providers working together to deliver health and social care for the people of Ealing
We have one full time position available as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant within the Early Years Team. This post involves supporting a large team of therapists with administration tasks and resource-making as well as carrying out clinical work under therapist supervision.
Ealing Speech & Language Therapy Department offers a wide range of opportunities for continuing professional development, and is committed to providing excellent levels of support and supervision. You will work as part of the Ealing Services for Children with Additional Needs.
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.
Ealing SLT Team works across Primary, Secondary and Special schools as well as Community Clinics and Children’s Centres, providing a range of services to children aged 0-16 years and their families. The post holder will be involved in:
General administration duties, e.g. filing, sending out appointment letters, answering phone calls, scanning and arranging training
Making materials to be used in therapy
Working with individual children and small groups of children under the supervision and guidance of a Speech and Language Therapist
Supporting and being involved in Easter and Summer holiday groups
Training will be provided, but the post holders are required to have excellent communication skills, proven administration and IT skills and to be effective team workers. The post holder should also have an interest in and experience of working with children and young people.
The role involves a combination of on site visits to Clinics, Children’s Centres and admin time at the main base.
Interview date: TBC
Keeping children and young people’s education, health and well-being at the centre of decision making to achieve the best possible outcomes.
Ealing Speech & Language Therapy Department feel strongly that Continual Professional Development is central to the delivery of the service and the development of the staff who work within it. The department offers a wide range of opportunities for CPD and is committed to providing excellent levels of support and supervision such as; shadowing opportunities, peer support groups, supervision sessions, journal clubs, specialism groups and whole department training days.
Ealing Speech and Language Therapy department is a friendly team. We are committed to providing care and services which are inclusive and treat everyone with respect. We have a committed equality, diversity and inclusion group who are working to ensure we are an actively anti-racist team. We are fortunate to work in Ealing, one of the most ethnically diverse boroughs in the UK, and we are striving to ensure our team reflects the communities we serve. We seek to ensure we are allies with our LGBTQ+ colleagues and families as well our neurodivergent colleagues and families.

any in-service training days
team meetings
care-group or other clinical meetings as arranged.
Ensure up to date knowledge of Information Governance
To attend mandatory training sessions
Continual Personal Development Programmes as agreed with Team Leaders
To support SLTs in the placements of SLT Students in the following ways:
Induction training for students
Co-running groups/whole class/training sessions with students
Feeding back to SLT re: students’ work when co-working with the