Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our service with the newly developed school team who will be providing S to C&YP. The post will involve supporting children who have identified speech, language and communication needs as part of their Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCP’S).
As part of this role you will be working in partnership with education and other professionals and parents/carers to provide therapy support. Working primarily within schools, early years and educational settings delivering S interventions.
Independently plan and implement therapy programmes for specific areas of speech, language and communication work, this will include educating school staff, parents and other health care professionals by demonstrating, coaching, training and modelling the SLT approaches.
Complete routine interventions with supervision from the SLT as required e.g. delegated intervention with new clients, observation and informal assessment through play and interaction, advice, coaching and teaching to parents/carers and school staff.
To autonomously plan and carry out SLT interventions for children working in different educational locations across the county.
Support new staff through the induction process and offer ongoing mentoring and training where appropriate to colleagues.
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
NHFT promotes a culture of learning to improve the care and safety of our patients and staff, which focuses on people who enable our Trust to be ‘outstanding’ by supporting opportunity, innovation, development and growth.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details