The Hackney Speech and Language Therapy service has a strong commitment to training and developing the next generation of Speech and Language Therapists (SaLTs). The service works closely with higher education institutions who are responsible for training SaLTs, such as University College London and City St George’s University of London .
The Hackney SaLT service welcomes approximately over 50 under-graduate and post-graduate SaLT students for clinical placement annually. Their work on placement is carefully planned and closely supervised so that the students add value to the services we run and help us reach even more children and young people. Some of these students will return once qualified and become part of our team. All qualified SaLTs in Hackney contribute to supervising student placements which furthers their own development as practitioners.
Our service works in close partnership with the universities. Some team members have been seconded part-time to the universities to work as Clinical Tutors or have taken up roles as university lecturers alongside continuing their clinical work in Hackney. Several of our team members have engaged in further study or clinical research at the universities and are champions of evidence based, cutting-edge practice in our service.
