Job overview

The Children’s Therapies team in North West Kent has exciting opportunities for dynamic and enthusiastic Band 5 Speech and Language Therapists.  The service provides Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Care Co-ordination services to Children and Young People aged 0-19.  We have a number of Band 5 SLT sessions available on a permanent basis working in a range of venues and across client groups, in school years.

The posts are suitable for NQPs. There will be opportunities for the successful candidate to work on a rotational basis spending 6-9 months working within each specialist area within the service such as severe and complex needs, speech, DLD, AAC etc.  Some children are open to one discipline (eg SLT), but an integrated therapy approach is offered where the support of more than one discipline is needed.  We currently offer a hybrid work pattern for staff with a combination of face to face and virtual working. 

We pride ourselves on the support and induction offered to new staff including: regular meetings with a line manager; access to clinical supervision; in house and external training. We offer regular clinical governance days where the whole team comes together to share knowledge, skills and CPD experiences. You will be supported by experienced clinicians from across Kent.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist you will:

• Help us deliver ‘The Balanced System’®, working with schools and settings to provide Specialist, Targeted and Universal support for SLCN.
• Provide assessment (formal and informal as appropriate), plan and implement therapy interventions for groups and/or individuals in a range of settings.
• Modify the interventions and programmes as appropriate, to meet the needs of individual children, young people and families.
• Deliver standardised training packages as part of a package of intervention.
• Work with key colleagues (ie Education and Health) in order to support multi agency models of service delivery.  
• Participate in reflective practice and on-going learning in order to continually improve the service offered by Children’s Therapies.
• Be committed to continually improving the patient experience by engaging in regular patient feedback mechanisms and encouraging service users to participate in shaping the service delivery.

Working for our organisation

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences

We ask for information about your protected characteristics on our application forms. This isn’t visible to anyone involved with shortlisting or interviewing you, except when you choose to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme due to disability. Short listers will see two ticks alongside your application to ensure they apply the principles of the scheme to your submission

The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suits us both

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