Job summary
- Main area
- SALT
- Grade
- 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1434
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cricket Green Polyclinic, Birches Close
- Town
- Mitcham
- Salary
- £26.30 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 10/07/2025 11:00
Employer heading
Bank B7 Early Years SALT SW
7
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
· Be an active member of the clinical team, providing a comprehensive Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapy service to children with complex communication needs (Early Years) and eating and drinking difficulties (0-19 years).
· Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
· Build up and maintain key relationships with referring services (including within the MDTs, primary and secondary care services, voluntary and third sector organisations) to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the role of the Speech & Language Therapist and the Multi-professional team.
· Be responsible for the supervision of junior staff: Speech & Language Therapists, Assistants and Speech & Language Therapy students.
· Work in a variety of settings in the community to deliver appropriate treatment including community clinics, client’s own home, schools and nurseries.
· Support self and service development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.
Main duties of the job
· Support the members of the team in the day-to-day operation of the service. This may include answering queries, triaging referrals, contributing to team discussions, responding to client needs, delegating and supervising appropriate tasks to administrative staff, communicating with other team members and outside agencies and other operational activities.
· Participate in the multi professional team meetings and actively contribute and chair as required, ensuring all Speech & Language Therapists support integrated working.
· Respond to inconsistent work patterns and to be able to manage a diary and re-prioritise as required.
· Be responsible for the supervision of Speech & Language Therapists, Assistants and Speech & Language Therapy students.
· To be compliant with the Trusts complaints procedure and take appropriate action as necessary in accordance with the procedure.
· Initiate and participate in change management processes as needed. Suggest required service development in line with national or local policies and guidelines. Exhibit behaviour which enables and promotes service development.
· To assist in the development of care protocols and policies for specific clinical issues e.g. AAC guidelines, dysphagia protocols and policies, management of eating and swallowing difficulties.
· To advise line manager / clinical supervisor on issues of service delivery including shortfall, service pressures etc.
Working for our organisation
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· Undertake specialised uni-professional and multi-professional assessments.
· To develop and implement treatment plans for clients referred to the service.
· Participate in the Single Assessment Process when appropriate, performing overview assessments and complex specialist assessments as appropriate. To communicate relevant medical information, assessment details, advice and recommendations across agencies and with clients in compliance with Trust Guidelines for sharing of information and informed consent. These agencies include schools, nurseries, 0-19 nursing team, paediatricians and hospital consultants, GPs, Social Services, Healthcare professionals.
· Be responsible for gaining valid, informed consent for assessment, treatment interventions from parents/carers and, where appropriate, young people. Sharing of information in compliance with legal and professional guidelines.
· Have highly specialist working knowledge of clinical guidelines, specific to the area you are working in and, with the guidance of your supervisor, to translate these guidelines into clinical practice.
· Perform uni-professional and multi-professional specialist assessments and re-assessments of treatment programmes using evidence-based outcome measures and in accordance with RCSLT Guidelines.
· Following highly specialist assessment, to use advanced clinical reasoning, analysis, assessment and re-assessment skills and using a client-centred goal setting approach, to develop and provide individual Speech & Language Therapy treatments and programmes for clients. These treatment techniques may include direct or indirect treatment techniques (for AAC, dysphagia, complex SLCN using formal and informal specific assessment tools), patient and carer education, home and school programmes and other Speech & Language Therapy treatment techniques.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Recognised SLT degree or equivalent.
- Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
- Member of a relevant Clinical Excellence Network
- Evidence of competence in managing complex dysphagic patients in the 0-19 age group including those requiring enteral feeding
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant post-registration education and training e.g. SCERTS, VERVE, Intensive Interaction, Attention Autism, Hanen, Gestalt Language Processing, AAC, Dysphagia, Infant Feeding, Breastfeeding, Tracheostomy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent experience within community SLT setting, specialising in complex needs and dysphagia in a paediatric population
- Experience of working and liaising with other MDT professionals
- Experience working with families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Able to communicate with families and young people in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a community paediatric SLT service.
- Experience of working through the RCSLT NQP and dysphagia frameworks with junior SLTs
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist knowledge of a wide range of appropriate therapeutic interventions and evidence of a specialist level of clinical expertise in relevant areas.
- Experience in using a range of assessment techniques for managing patients with dysphagia and complex needs.
- Ability to listen effectively and provide constructive feedback to families and colleagues.
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate research in a relevant area
- Completion of CPD related to dysphagia management
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank recruitment business partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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