Job summary
- Main area
- speech and language therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (monday to friday 9-5 p)
- Job ref
- 363-SS7258165
- Employer
- East London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- west ham lane
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Cluster Lead Schools
NHS AfC: Band 7
ELFT has long been recognised as a centre of excellence for mental and health care, innovation and improvement. So it is a very exciting time for you to come and work for us. Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Job overview
Band 7 – Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist: Cluster Lead Schools Service
Paediatric Community Services- Newham, East London Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced speech and language therapist looking to develop your leadership skills?
We have an exciting opportunity, in our new joint commissioned SLT schools service, to be a ‘Custer lead’ SLT. This role will provide clinical leadership to a small team of schools speech and language therapists.
Within the role, you will have protected leadership time to coordinate and oversee the delivery of speech therapy to schools within your allocated cluster. This will include providing support, supervision and training to staff within your cluster along with line management responsibilities. The post holder will also manage a caseload of schools providing assessment, advice and intervention.
There will be opportunity to continue to develop your clinical skills and be involved in service development and improvement work. Come and be part of an award winning team!
Based at the child development centre, in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, close to the Olympic Park in the heart of London’s East End (with excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex).
For more information, contact: Natalie Blanchard Clinical Lead Schools SLT service [email protected] phone: 078265448204
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will take a lead as an autonomous practitioner in coordinating and overseeing the speech and language referrals and service delivery within a schools cluster group. This will include allocation of referrals and overseeing service delivery to schools, escalating issues to the service lead as appropriate.
- The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner managing their own caseload and schools and prioritising activities to meet demands and required deadlines. This will include assessing and supporting a range of communication difficulties in children and young people within the schools service. They will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments.
- The post holder will be responsible for supporting a range of key stakeholders including school based staff, parents and carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the young person.
- The post holder will support coordination of student placements and oversee the quality of placements -reporting any issues to the clinical lead.
- To contribute to service development and deputise for the clinical lead
Working for our organisation
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be part of the speech therapy service school service and will have responsibility as a cluster lead to coordinate the services provided to schools within their ‘cluster’.
The cluster leadership duties will involve coordination and allocation of referrals made to the service including EHC Needs assessment. The role has 0.2 wte protected for the ‘cluster lead’ /coordination role.
The post holder will ensure effective and efficient systems are in place for the smooth delivery of the core and traded services to schools. The post holder will be supported by the Clinical Lead for the service.
To be the First point of contact for SaLT colleagues and schools within the cluster locality; facilitating problem solving relating to service delivery issues e.g workload, complaints and providing support to colleagues
To provide training and specialist second opinions to SaLT colleagues in the cluster and lead on service improvement projects.
To provide clinical supervision including support, monitoring and assisting with performance management in conjunction with line manager
The post holder will be responsible for supporting parents and school based staff to deliver delegated therapy programmes in order to best support young people to access educational and community environments. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the child/young person.
The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of a variety of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments for children and young peoples within the mainstream school service working as an autonomous practitioner maintaining their own caseload.
The post holder will contribute to refining pathways / models of provision to support young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). You will be a leading contributor to auditing and measuring outcomes in order to support staff development recruitment and retention within the SLT service.
The post holder will deputise for the clinical lead as required
Person specification
Education and Qualification
Essential criteria
- • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- • Health and Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- • Successful completion of specialist courses relevant to the specialism,
- • Clinical supervisors course for staff and students
Desirable criteria
- • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial relevant and varied post graduate experience within field of paediatric speech and language therapy
- • Experience of assessment and intervention within a wide range of SLCN conditions
- • Expereince of writing EHCP health advice and formulating specified and quantified interventions
- • Experience of providing clinical supervision to SLT students
- • Experience of developing and delivering training to staff and other professionals/ parents
- • Experience of working within an MDT
- • Experience of working within community and school settings
- • Experience of providing support and supervision for junior staff
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- • In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
- • In depth knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
- • Ability to work collaboratively with young people, parents and colleagues
- • Ability to share sensitive and complex information with families and professionals.
- or work alone or in a group for clinical sessions-working as an autonomous practitioner.
- • Ability to share sensitive and complex information with families and professionals
- • Excellent organisational , time management and prioritisation skills
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- • Understanding of the principles of clinical governance /audit
- • Knowledge of standards of record keeping
- • Knowledge of safeguarding – adults and children
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
- Natalie Blanchard
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Schools Speech and Language Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07826548204
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