Job vacancy: Speech and Language Therapist - Band 5, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Children's Speech and Language Therapy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 5
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 196-LIS9529

Employer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Sunshine House
Town: London
Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 p.a inc HCA
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/05/2025 23:59

Speech and Language Therapist - Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Professional / Clinical responsibilities

To provide autonomous clinical management adapting practice to meet individual patients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences
To provide advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with communication and interaction difficulties, and seek out second opinions where necessary.
To provide clinical reports for specific purposes e.g., EHCPs, to be shared with families and a range of professionals.
To demonstrate appropriate caseload management.
To ensure that service users are able to express their views and opinions and are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
To contribute to the development and implementation of clinical care pathways.
To identify and make appropriate onward referrals to other agencies
To develop information and resources for parents, carers and other professionals about speech, language and communication needs.
To raise local awareness of the importance of developing communication skills within service area.
To identify training needs and to develop, provide and evaluate appropriate training to parents, carers, volunteers, educators and practitioners.
To participate in projects, activities and events including attendance at team meetings
To plan, guide and support the work of educators and carers responsible for implementing strategies and programmes of work in support of children’s speech and language therapy goals.
To provide and receive complex, sensitive, condition related information to clients, carers, families and other professionals.

Management

To take delegated tasks related to specific projects, working groups and events as appropriate and as requested by line manager.
To advise line manager on issues of service delivery, including access and equity shortfalls and service pressures
To contribute to interagency/multi-disciplinary working and team building
To be aware of and implement service and team plans and policies in own role
To use knowledge of settings and client group to inform and develop services and policies.

Financial and physical resources responsibilities

To monitor stock levels in own service area and request new equipment as appropriate
To develop resources of interest to client group
To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained – including equipment loaned to clients

Education & Professional Development

To engage in reflective practice with peers through participation in peer review, peer mentoring and supervision as appropriate
To plan, monitor and support the work of assistants and volunteers
To resolve verbal complaints about the Speech and Language Therapy service in liaison with line manager
To explain the role of Speech & Language Therapists to parents/carers, professional colleagues in education, health and the voluntary sector and to work effectively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team
To support students from other professional groups as appropriate and to provide/support full student placements
To contribute to identifying training needs within the team.

Information management

To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with HCPC/RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies
To share information with carers, school staff and other professionals, observing data protection guidelines and client confidentiality
To gather and update activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly within local Trust guidelines.
To participate in areas of risk management, quality standards setting and clinical effectiveness
To contribute to team-wide initiatives to seek the views of children, parents and partner organisations on the quality and effectiveness of service provided
To contribute to departmental research, Clinical Governance/Audit projects.
To collect and provide research data as required by the department.

Freedom to act

To manage caseload independently seeking guidance and support where appropriate.
To be accountable for own professional actions and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct and the Trust’s value based behaviours.
To work independently accessing line management, supervision, and performance development reviews (appraisal) at pre-determined intervals.

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential criteria

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
Health and Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice

Desirable criteria

Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy

Experience

Essential criteria

Relevant experience working with children at an undergraduate /post graduate level
Independently manage own time and prioritise tasks including caseload management
Problem solving skills in complex situations including local resolution of complaints where possible
Understanding of the impact of local social, cultural, and linguistic factors on service delivery.

Skills

Essential criteria

Knowledge of relevant procedures and legal frameworks, including: Safeguarding Children, Code of Practice, Information Governance
Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key professionals in health, education, voluntary and social services
Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, including reflective practice, audit and research methodologies
Ability to engage and negotiate with carers, clients and others around individual case management
Ability to use ICT for clinical and administrative tasks
Ability to recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and generate potential solutions
Ability to work closely with team members and external partners to review patient care and contribute to recommendations for improved service delivery
Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessments and therapeutic interventions and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits underpinned by evidence based practice

Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

Flexible working

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Cath Thomas

Job title

Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist

Email address

[email protected]

Telephone number

07598 550597

Additional information

To get more of a sense of our department, why not visit;

Our website http://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/communityspeechandlanguage

Our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/EvelinaLondonSLT

Our Trust sites https://www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk/Home.aspx / https://www.evelinalondon.nhs.uk/our-services/services.aspx

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Speech and Language Therapist - Band 5

NHS AfC: Band 5

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