Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time (3 days per week) post within Camden SLT Service for Young People, initially for a 12-month fixed term contract (with likelihood of extension). We welcome applications from candidates who are currently band 6 or are newly developing as band 7s, or developing their experience and/or specialism with this client group.



The post involves provision of SLT service within a multi-site Post-16 College group, as part of Service Level Agreement (SLA) working with young people and adults aged 16-25, who have a range of language, communication and learning difficulties, and with their college staff, and families.



The role includes consultative and clinical skills, utilising these at universal, targeted and specialist levels to upskill college teaching and support staff and ensure communication friendly environments, alongside offers of short-term interventions to specific students, providing functional and meaningful communication support.

Feedback from staff has included:

"supportive and open culture from management and the service", "friendly colleagues", "well-being is prioritised and supported", "emphasis on reflective practice and innovative ideas", "inclusive culture", "staff collaborating and working together within SLT and the wider multi-professional teams



You will be responsible for delivering a highly specialist service to young people and young adults in post 16 college provisions, and the college staff. You will be working with learners with a range of communication needs. This may include learning disabilities, autism, Down's syndrome and sensory impairments. Some use AAC including Makaton signing, low- and high-tech communication aids. Intervention includes assessments and therapy for individuals or groups. A knowledge of communication strategies used with the client group is essential.



You will be involved in carrying out audits and developing communication friendly environments, and providing targeted and universal support to college and families. You will also be upskilling staff teams and providing training and coaching to staff on how best to support learners.



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.



For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached .



We are keen to hear from you. If you would like to discuss this post in more detail, and talk through how the role matches your interests / experience, you can contact Laura McLean laura.mclean@nhs.net - 0203 316 1080 or 07557 198991