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Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service (IANDS) has a vacancy for a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant to join the Early Language Support for Every Child (ELSEC) team.
ELSEC is a pilot initiative designed to support education settings in identifying and supporting children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). The programme focuses on children accessing the Islington Universal Offer in mainstream schools. Funded until March 2026, (with a likely extension to August 2026 and possibly beyond), ELSEC is testing a new model where a team of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants (SLTAs) delivers universal and targeted support directly to schools. The aim is to build school staff confidence and capacity to continue supporting children’s language development during and after the programme.
The successful candidate will receive full training and support to deliver screening assessments and interventions to children and provide training, modelling and coaching to education staff.
Following a successful pilot in Barnet in June 2024, the programme is now expanding to Islington and Enfield.
To learn more about the programme, please visit the Department for Education.
website: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/earlier-support-for-speech-and-language-for-20000-children
* Deliver screening assessments and provide training and coaching to staff in Early Years and Primary School settings. This includes training staff on how to carry out screening assessments and deliver targeted interventions. Work closely with teachers, teaching assistants, and other allied health professionals to support implementation. Regularly report on progress and share updates with senior Speech and Language Therapists.
* To use effective communication tools, verbal and non-verbal, to communicate with children who may have barriers to communicating or understanding.
* To help the team with both administrative, and clinical work, thereby supporting the smooth running of the team.
* To be responsible for making resources, maintaining equipment, keeping clinical notes, and keeping clinical and office spaces in good condition.
* To be responsible for organising and prioritising your own work and adhering to Trust policies and procedures, especially in relation to child safeguarding.
* To have a duty to report any accident/incident via Trust procedures.
* To monitor and record children’s progression towards therapy aims.
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 further details / informal visits contact: Name: Georgia Roskin Job title: Clinical Team Lead Email address: georgia.roskin@nhs.net
We look forward to receiving your application as the first step towards welcoming you to the team.
georgia.roskin@nhs.net
0203 316 8900
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