Highly Specialist Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Within this role you will:

• Take a leadership role to continue to develop our service for children with language disorders
• Supervise junior staff including newly qualified Speech and Language Therapists (SLT)
• Support the evaluation and quality improvement of the SLT service with the support of the clinical team leads
• Be able to manage a diverse and varied paediatric caseload of children who are in schools and resource bases
• Develop your leadership and management skills within the Mainstream Primary Schools SLT including service development
  
  Knowledge and/or experience of working with, a diverse paediatric caseload
• Experience working with parents of young children
• Experience of supporting the evaluation of service delivery
• Experience in delivering universal and / or targeted level offers to mainstream schools
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team
• Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary
• Enthusiasm, imagination, and initiative
• Understanding of the neurodiversity framework
The role will encompass supervision and and support of junior speech and language therapists as well as speech and language therapy assistants. The post holder will also support the development and evaluation of service delivery.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.