Job overview

To provide a clinical and advisory SLT service to pre-school children, some school age children and young people with diverse speech, language, and communication needs.  To provide a service across community clinics, children’s centres and other early years settings.  To work as part of an integrated team with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and SLT colleagues. To participate in multi-disciplinary  work with colleagues in health, education, parents / carers.

**Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.**

Main duties of the job

• To provide an assessment, diagnostic and treatment service for children referred to the community clinic/early years’ service within the Borough of Bexley. 
• To manage a caseload independently, accessing clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis and to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking advice when appropriate. 
• To deliver care in line with the RCSLT/HCPC professional guidelines and standards. 
• To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapy interventions. To monitor and review the progress of therapy programmes implemented and facilitate modifications of interventions / targets as appropriate.
• To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in the assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders and stammering. 
• To contribute to the formulation and review/update of clinical care pathways.
• To maintain professional competence through personal development and training. To be responsible for maintaining own professional registration and meet HPC Registration requirements maintaining a professional portfolio. 
• To reflect on clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.  
• To undertake mandatory training in line with Trust Policy and attend updates and study days as appropriate to the post.
• To undertake relevant public health skills training and updates as required.

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