Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 277-6227636-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sites within the Royal Borough of Greenwich
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £40,701 - £48,054 pa inc pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Greenwich Children's Integrated Therapies - Speech & Language Therapy Service are looking to appoint a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to cover maternity leave for 12 months.
The post offers sessions within both the School Years Team and the Early Years Team.
There is the opportunity for professional development with the support of a large team of therapists & assistants. You will have access to admin, managerial & clinical support.
Our support offer includes:
- regular 1:1 supervision
- peer support meetings
- Good practice CPD sessions and external training
- Evidence Based Practice newsletter
- Oxleas Beyond Preceptorship programme
Main duties of the job
- independently manage a caseload whilst utilising knowledge and skills of colleagues
- have opportunity to refine both assessment and intervention skills
- support parent/carers and children/young people in all issues related to clinical care with support from more experienced colleagues
- provide a specialist clinical and advisory Speech and Language Therapy service to children and young people with diverse speech, language and communication needs
- work with Principal and Highly Specialist colleagues leading on Service Improvement Plans
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 values:
- e’re Kind
- We’re
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be part of the Greenwich Integrated Therapies service, working alongside Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy colleagues.
You will have access to administrative, managerial and clinical support. Training and career development is well supported within Oxleas with the opportunity to attend both internal and external training. Examples of training offered recently or planned in the future include: Nuffield Dyspraxia, Shape Coding, PECS, Bilingualism, Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Evidence based for DLD – Moor House, Core Vocabulary Intervention, Attention Autism.
Please refer to the attached Job Description for further details of the role and the Person Specification for essential and desirable requirements of the post holder.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised degree/equivalent qualification
- Registered with the HCPC
- Registered with the RCSLT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in schools
- Experience of working with clients with a range of SLCN
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training others
- Experience of implementing and supporting a range of therapeutic approaches
Skills
Essential criteria
- Well established knowledge of a range of standardised and functional assessment tools relevant to the client group
- A working knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
- Understanding the roles of other professionals relevant to the client group
- Ability to communicate complex information to others where there may be barriers to understanding
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualities
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
- Julia Longthorne
- Job title
- Head of Profession - Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8836 8621
- Additional information
Amy Whitter - Early Years Service Lead
020 8836 8621
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