Employer Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Parkview Centre for Health and Wellbeing Town London Salary £30,546 - £32,207 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 14/09/2025 23:59
Speech and Language Therapy Assistant - Hammersmith & Fulham
Band 3
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Central London Community Healthcare, Speech and Language Therapy Service to join our Early Years team in delivering a service to the Boroughs of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham and Kensington and Chelsea. We provide comprehensive assessment and therapy packages for pre-school children with a range of speech, language, and communication needs.
This is an excellent opportunity for an innovative and creative Speech and Language Therapy Assistant with very good communication skills to work as part of our highly skilled, dynamic and supportive Early Years Speech and Language Therapy team.
To develop and implement programmes of support to children and families under the direction of the Speech and Language Therapy line manager and team, to promote development of communication, language, speech skills for preschool children and young people
To assist the speech and language therapists in assessments, taking observations of children’s communication skills e.g. social communication, play, attention, understanding, language and speech.
To run groups with the speech and language therapists.
To plan and deliver, under the supervision of the Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, health promotion activities, workshops and programmes of education / therapy practice for families and early years practitioners
To support SLTs with preparation for delivery of training including room bookings, managing promotion of courses, managing applications and attendees’ queries, preparation and copying training materials and training room set up.
To provide advice to others regarding the development of early language and communication skills
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
* Flexible working options
* Training, support and development in your career
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 3-4 or equivalent in a related subject
* Evidence of good general education, English/Mathematics GCSE or equivalent qualification
* Ability to read and write clearly and coherently in English.
* Keyboard skills and computer literacy
* Attendance at relevant courses
Experience
* Any paid/unpaid work in a health or social services/charity setting involving working with families and young children for at least 1 year.
* Experience of developing/delivering advice/training to groups
* Experience of team working
* Experience of working with young children with speech, language and communication needs and families in community settings.
* Experience of working with or alongside speech and language therapists
* Previous experience within the NHS
* Experience of working as a Therapies assistant
* Personal experience via family, friends etc. or willingness to learn, in working with children and their families
Skills & Knowledge
* Ability to work as part of a team.
* Sensitivity and empathy towards clients and their families
* Strong oral and written communication skills
* Strong organisational skills and multitasking abilities
* Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritise work.
* Knowledge of and commitment to equal opportunities.
* Knowledge and understanding of basic child development.
* Ability to communicate with a wide range of people.
* Ability to use Word and Excel effectively.
* Ability to type accurately.
* Ability to manage a computerised database.
* Ability to use own initiative and work unsupervised.
* Ability to recognise when to seek support.
* Ability to deal with a wide variety of people, both internal and external
* Ability to understand and implement the principles of confidentiality.
* Good interpersonal skills
Key Attributes
* Able to maintain prolonged concentration when working with children presenting with speech, language and communication skills.
* Travel around district and access different venues, with or without adaptations
* Employee Health Clearance
* Ability to work under pressure with changing priorities in a calm and professional manner.
* Ability to research and solve problems.
* Personal motivation and flexible approach to work
* Commitment to applying the principles of equal opportunities practice.
* Creative
* Reliable
* Common sense in approach to workload
* Professional caring manner and enjoys contact with people
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Name Tashia Pillay Job title Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead Email address tpillay@nhs.net Telephone number 07393798469 Additional information
Sarah Mezey
Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead (Hammersmith and Fulham)
Tel: 07584 183553 (direct)
Email: sarah.mezey@nhs.net
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