Job overview

Oxleas is a great place to work.  It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead an Early Years and Community clinic team?  If so, come and join Bexley Children’s Speech & Language Therapy service!

You will have a clinical SLT specialism within Early Years and a proven track record in planning and delivering Early Years Speech and Language services as well as contributing to  service- level strategic and operational planning.

 Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organisation, with established values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care. Located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting.

 For more information about the position, please call 020 30040092, to speak to Jo Copp Early Years & Community Clinics Co-Ordinator (current postholder) and/or Paula Johnson, Ops Manager for Bexley Therapies/Music Therapy (mob 07771 988477).

Please note that applications from overseas candidates are welcome.

 Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide leadership to the Early Years and Community Clinic Service in Bexley ensuring continued and co-ordinated service delivery and development of clinical provision and inter-agency, local partnership working with local partners. 

The post holder will be responsible for operational, day to day management of the Early Years and Community Clinic Service and alongside Service Lead, in the strategic direction of the Early Years and Community Clinic Service. 

The post holder will work closely with the Service Lead, Coordinator of the School-aged service, Coordinator of Special Schools, as well as the Head of Therapies, Bexley.

In addition, the post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children, supporting families and other professionals in all issues related to client management.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care