Job Description

IANDS provides a multi-agency team approach to working with babies, children and young people who present with additional needs and complex disability. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join this service for 6 months to cover maternity leave, who is able to work sensitively with children and young people and who is committed to family centred practice. You will gain experience working in early years within a community clinic setting, managing a caseload alongside colleagues.



The Early Years Speech and Language Therapy service provides assessment and therapy for children under 5 years of age with a range of speech, language & communication needs. They deliver a variety of packages of care, including assessment, language groups and parent-child interaction therapy, for which the service has a national reputation. The post also has responsibility for providing specialist assessment and intervention to pre-school children across Islington with Down Syndrome.



You will receive a high level of clinical support and supervision for all aspects of the post, both formally and informally.

We offer:

a large team of friendly, supportive colleagues

opportunities for frequent contact with other speech and language therapists

a well developed support, supervision and appraisal structure

extensive opportunities for continuing professional development

a full programme of induction



The post holder will work in the Early Years Speech and Language Therapy team which provides clinic-based assessment, support and intervention for pre-school children with a range of speech, language and communication needs, including speech delay/disorder, language difficulties/disorder, selective mutism and social communication differences. This role also includes covering the Down's Syndrome caseload.



The post holder will carry out assessments and provide a range of interventions, including language groups, video Parent-Child Interaction therapy (vPCI) and speech sound therapy.



Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.



The post holder will design, deliver and analyse assessments, both informal and formal, as appropriate for children under 5. They will make differential diagnoses and give timely and tailored advice and support to parents/carers and key others, to ensure they feel confident to implement strategies and activities across the child's various communication environments. The post holder will deliver direct intervention, which may be individual, paired or group therapy, working collaboratively with parent/carers throughout the therapeutic process and in goal-setting, ensuring therapy plans are evidence-based and using outcome measures to monitor effectiveness and progress.



Please see and Person Specification documents.