Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Contract end date - 01-APR-2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 824-ONW-6919-A
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chalkhill Primary Care Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum, inclusive of HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Speech and Language Therapist
Band 5
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 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - 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.
Job overview
We looking to recruit new team members to the Mainstream Schools team. The positions have become available due internal promotion.
If you are motivated, enthusiastic and looking for an exciting and challenging place to work come and join us.
We are a team working collaboratively in schools providing a high-quality service to children with a range of special educational needs.
We provide SLT to children and young people
- at SEN support and with EHCPs in Brent primary schools
- with EHCPs in secondary and FE settings
- with EHCPs who attend out of borough schools
Main duties of the job
- The assessment of CYP with a range of speech, language and communication needs including- DLD, ASD, speech, selective mutism.
- Working directly with children in groups and individually, as well as offering advice and strategies to school staff and parents.
- Liaising with parents and other professionals
- Providing training for your allocated schools
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assess the need for, develop and implement Speech and Language Therapy treatment to children referred within CLCH with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties attending mainstream schools
- To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of children’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, school and other relevant setting
- To monitor all aspects of parent/teacher interactions with children. In particular, to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication
- To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence-based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to children and their families within clearly defined care plans
- To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment seeking advice as appropriate
Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree and Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registered membership of HPC and RCSLT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with children in clinics and/or school based settings
Desirable criteria
- Training others.
- Adult-Child Interaction(ACI)
- Working with multi-cultural client group
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of needs of parents, teachers and others
- Flexibility
- Good problem solving skills
- Excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of children with a broad range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- Well developed concentration skills
- Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
- Manual dexterity for signing
- Manual dexterity sufficient to carry out swallowing assessment and use of high and low technical assessment equipment
- Normal Child Development including Speech and Language, Play and other milestones
- Knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for children with Speech, Language and Communication impairments and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits to individual children
- Education Practice and Policy and National Curriculum
- Religious, Cultural and Linguistic issues impacting upon caseload management
- Awareness of national policies and procedures (relevant to school aged children)
- Awareness of the principles of audit
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
- Knowledge of professional standards of record keeping
- Contribution of other agencies in supporting school aged children
- Assess the speech, language and communication skills of school-aged children using formal and informal assessments
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Governance
Other
Essential criteria
- Travel around district and access different venues, with or without adaptations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Weir
- Job title
- Principal Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07884752664
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