Speech and Language Therapist - Full-time or part-time

Napa Centre is looking to hire a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to join the brand-new London clinic. The salary for this opportunity is £45,000-£70,000, depending on experience.

Speech and Language Therapists provide services to develop, enhance, or restore functional communication, speech, language, and/or feeding/swallowing skills of clients whose abilities to communicate effectively and/or to eat safely and efficiently are threatened or impaired by physical, cognitive, social-emotional, and sensory impairments.

Speech and Language Therapists at NAPA Centre complete skilled assessments and provide skilled intervention to infants, toddlers, children, and adolescents with a variety of diagnoses that impact speech production, receptive language, expressive language, social-pragmatic skills, and feeding/swallowing skills within the professional scope of practice. The role requires all therapists to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team and provide evidence-based interventions to clients that include complex communication and feeding needs.

Minimum qualifications include:

• Completion of at least a Master of Arts or Applied Science in Speech Language Therapist, Communication Disorders, Communication Sciences and Disorders, or equivalent, from an accredited university.
• License to practice from the UK Chartered Society for Physiotherapy.
• Strong clinical experience - at least 2 years post graduate experience, preferably in a pediatric setting with exposure to children and/or young adults with complex disabilities.
• Enhanced DBS check.
• CPR and First Aid certificates.

Good physical health and fitness, including the ability to frequently perform, on a daily basis, the following movements over a 6-8 hour period without experiencing pain or abnormal fatigue: Independently offer contact guard assistance for ambulatory patients of up to 56 KG.

Ability to communicate confidently and effectively with clients and other medical professionals. Exercise discipline by completing all documentation, reporting requirements and training in an accurate and timely manner. Demonstrates the ability to take on additional responsibilities with time, including assessment and development of treatment plans for more complex cases, supervision of therapy aides/volunteers and additional clinic responsibilities. Ability to travel for periods of time for training/treating may be required.

Assessment, diagnosis, and treatment with documentation of speech, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and feeding-swallowing disorders primarily in the paediatric population. Possess general knowledge of child development to assess and refer families to other disciplines when appropriate. Assess a client’s communication and/or feeding/swallowing skills using a variety of standardized tools and clinical observation/informal analysis to identify primary impairments and determine a plan for treatment. Utilize multiple frames of reference to inform practice including but not limited to: neurodevelopmental, developmental biomechanical, sensory integration, motor learning, cognitive, and rehabilitation. Create tailored treatment plans to address client’s limitations.