Job overview

Come and join our award winning innovative, creative, forward thinking and supportive children’s therapy team. If you are interested in deafness and have a child centred/ child led therapy approach this may be the role for you.

A band 7   fixed term for 11months speech and language therapy position specialising in deafness have recently arisen as a result of Staff maternity leave..

The post holder will work across a range of ages and settings with babies, children and young people with a range of types and degrees of deafness, age range 0-19 years. You will join a well-established community integrated therapy team, where you will be supported by a very experienced specialist in deafness alongside experienced speech and language therapists, Occupational therapists and physio therapists. You will line manage one member of staff and run clinical supervision sessions for band 5 or band 6 speech and language therapists.

 The integrated therapy team has a person centred, evidence based, and participation focused approach to support for children, young people and families. You will  be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team for deaf CYP in Tower Hamlets, working particularly closely with teachers of the deaf.

We have total communication approach where all modes of communication are valued and supported and where the use of sign is actively encouraged. Experience of using sign in your work is particularly valuable.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children and young people Therapy  Service sits in Specialist Community Children’s Services based at Mile End Hospital.  It offers an integrated community based therapy service to the children and young people of Tower Hamlets and is delivered predominantly in schools, pre-school settings, clinics and service users homes. 

This job role will provide  highly specialist clinical assessment and intervention to children from birth to 19 years for children with a significant hearing loss in one or both ears.  In addition the post holder will contribute towards the wider team both clinically and through line managing a small number of staff.  They will work jointly with key deaf professionals in the borough to support the children and families, such as teachers of the deaf and deaf instructor. The team has a total communication approach and you will be expected to advocate strongly for the use of sign language (BSL) within this and to have a good understanding of the deaf community.

 Multi-disciplinary working is an integral part of all aspects of this job, as is teaching and training around the specialist areas of communication disability .   The post-holder will participate actively in the education and training of student speech and language therapists and other health professionals, including medical and AHP teams.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.  

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.  

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.  

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.