Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Posts are fixed term for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 220-WHT-3299
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tynemouth Road Health Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £44,485 - £60,651 Per annum (pro rata) including HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 20/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Speech and Language Therapist - Mainstream schools
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated speech and language therapists to join our large Haringey Mainstream Schools team which includes specialists in many clinical areas. You will gain new skills and experiences and support Haringey children and young people, their families, and schools. We have a strong focus on achieving the best outcomes for the children and young people.
The roles are 12 month fixed term, Band 7 . We welcome applications from current Band 6 or 7 SLTs with some experience working in mainstream schools. Additional support and training will be offered for less experienced therapists.
It’s an exciting time inHaringey We are developing our Universal offers which run alongside Haringey's SLCN graduated response which identifies and meets the SLCN needs of children and young people as early as possible. As part of this we have additional funding for these posts which will support us to reduce long waits for assessment and intervention in our mainstream schools service.
Main duties of the job
1. To carry a personal clinical caseload to a high level of professional competence and demonstrate clinical expertise in early years or mainstream school case management.
2. To assess, differentially diagnose, plan and implement therapy for children with speech, language and/or communication difficulties on own caseload and supervise others to do so.
3. To work effectively with clients, carers, and colleagues around individual case management; providing advice, guidance and support as necessary and involving them in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible.
4. To reflect on clinical practice; adequately identifying strengths & needs of clients, reviewing their response to therapy and providing evidence of sound clinical judgement.
Working for our organisation
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description and Person Specification .
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or MSC in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
- Health Professions Council Registration to Practice
- Evidence of successful completion of a range of specialist short courses in specialist area to MSC equivalency
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly developed clinical skills in the assessment and differential diagnosis of children who present with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- Excellent interpersonal skills with regard to individual client management (including empathy, observation and interview skills).
- Ability to deal with conflict in a range of settings
- Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team including excellent communication, liaison, negotiation, and influencing skills
- Demonstrates ability to assume leadership responsibilities
- Excellent analytical, reflective and problem solving skills
- Ability to present effective verbal and written reports for clients, carers, colleagues and managers
- Ability to organise and prioritise caseloads of junior colleagues, assistants and students
- Ability to work calmly under pressure and be flexible to demands
- Ability to manage complaints and prevent escalation wherever possible
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate experience of working with children/young people who present with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- Experience of planning and implementing programmes of support for children in educational settings and home environments.
- Experience of working in partnership with parents
- Experience of collaborative, multi-agency and multi-disciplinary working
- Experience of carrying out assessment and differential diagnosis, including complex disorders, learning disabilities and ASC
- Experience of managing demand and setting priority criteria
- Experience of implementing the principles of clinical governance in clinical practise
- Experience of training parents and education staff
- Experience of working collaboratively with colleagues in health and other agencies including education and social care
- Up-to-date knowledge of relevant national policies, legislation and guidance relevant to clinical specialism
- Well established knowledge of a range of highly specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to clinical specialism
Other
Desirable criteria
- Ability to take the majority of leave during the school holidays
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
- Bekka Rose
- Job title
- Haringey Lead SLT,Mainstream Schools
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Jo Davies, Lead SLT. Mainstream schools, [email protected]
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
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- Telephone
- If you have any queries, please contact NLPSS Recruitment Helpdesk tel. 020 3758 2060
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