London Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Full Job Description

Job Title:         London Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Location:         London Children’s Practice – Greater London SW3 4QS

Salary:             £23,000-£27,000 DOE

Contract:         Permanent, 50-week contract  

Hours:             37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday   

Are you a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant who thrives in an environment where you can make a real difference?

Do you want to be part of Company that provides opportunities for Continued Professional Development?

Do you want to work in a company who provide clear paths to progress your career??

If yes, we might just have the role for you, read on!

What are we looking for?

We are keen to hear from enthusiastic, creative, and motivated Speech and Language Therapy Assistants. 

Here at the London Children’s practice, we can offer career routes that will enable you to take the next steps in your therapist journey. With plenty of opportunities for further training, we pride ourselves on creating a supportive and friendly environment where our therapists can flourish.

Our therapists provide life changing and enabling work that makes a real difference to our client’s lives. These roles are extremely rewarding; however, we recognise that they can also be challenging at times, this is why we ensure that our therapists are supported through regular meetings/ touch bases with your team through regular group “huddles” and team lead check ins.

Speech and Language Therapy Assistants taking on this role will be responsible for supporting services set up and intervention within Mainstream and SEN settings, building and maintaining rapport with school senior management, and liaising with LCP senior management and team lead as required.

These settings will provide you with the opportunity to carry out assessment, report and program writing, and intervention-based working in support of SLT provision along with execution of specialist, targeted and universal provision. Additionally, we have a central London clinic where we can also support with clinic-based skills development.

At the London Children's Practice, we pride ourselves on providing a workplace where therapists can learn, grow and achieve the best outcomes for themselves and their clients. We provide several CPD opportunities within the year to support the continued skill development of our therapists. Supervisor support is also provided along with our wellbeing team to provide mental health and wellbeing support within your working week if needed.

About the Group

We’re a thriving multi-disciplinary practice based in Central London, providing services throughout Greater London. 

Mandatory Experience:

• BSc or MSc in relevant area

Desirable:

• Experience working within a school setting.
• Worked within a paediatric setting.
• Experience working with EHCP’s and SLT Provision in a school setting.
• Experience working with complex behaviours.

What we can offer you: 

Your health and wellbeing are very important to us, so you will receive an attractive rewards package. We operate a market-leading flexible benefits scheme that enables you to adjust your benefits to fit with your lifestyle:

• 5 weeks Summer Holidays off
• 22 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays
• Term time only contracts available with pro-rata wage and annual leave.
• Life Assurance
• Pension scheme with options to increase your contributions
• “Your Wellbeing Matters” - access to a wide range of first-class mental health support services and physical health checks
• A wide range of health, wellbeing, and insurance benefits
• 100’s of discount options valid in the UK and abroad
• Cycle to Work Schemes
• Electric Car Purchase Scheme
• Critical illness cover

Why work for us?

You will be working with a network of supportive and experienced clinical colleagues with regular forums for peer reflection and practice development. Your career development and wellbeing will be in safe hands, with numerous training and development opportunities, as well as wellness days, quarterly social events and a generous array of flexible benefit options.

We place the outcomes of the people in our services at the heart of everything we do, so you’ll wake every day in the knowledge that your role will have a significant positive impact on the lives of others.

We are committed to the safeguarding and promoting the welfare of people. All successful applicants will be subject to a fully enhanced DBS.

For more information about LCP please visit the below websites 

http://www.londonchildrenspractice.co.uk/

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