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Job summary

Main area
Children & Young People
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
277-6877965-CYP
Employer
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Children's Speech & Language Therapy - Erith Hospital
Town
Bexley
Salary
£42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust logo

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 6

Job overview

To provide a clinical and advisory Speech and Language Therapy service to children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs, including children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Learning Disabilities (LD) including those with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD) attending Shenstone special school in Bexley, with a focus on the secondary-aged students.

To work with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs at Shenstone School. ÌýShenstoneÌýSchool is an all-through (special primary and secondary) school for children who have severe and or complex learning difficulties.Ìý

To be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing an integrated care pathway.Ìý

To support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management, with access to supervision from senior therapists.Ìý

To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information for school staff, parents and carers and colleagues in health and education.

To work as part of a team with class-teachers, learning support assistants, head teacher, therapists, and the child’s family / carers.Ìý

Main duties of the job

  • To provide an assessment and therapy service for children with speech and language needs, and children with complex communication needs referred to the SLT service.
  • To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual, and kinaesthetic aspects of clients’ communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
  • To manage a complex communication caseload independently, accessing clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis and to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking advice when appropriate.
  • To deliver care in line with the RCSLT/HCPC professional guidelines and standards.
  • To be responsible for the planning, and evaluation of evidence-based therapy interventions. To monitor and review the progress of therapy programmes implemented and facilitate modifications of interventions / targets as appropriate
  • To ensure maximum involvement of the client, family/carer, education staff and other professional staff where appropriate in planning care and the therapy programme.
  • To maintain professional competence through personal development and training. To be responsible for maintaining own professional registration and meet HCPC Registration requirements maintaining a professional portfolio
  • To reflect on clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide rang 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.Ìý This is strengthened by our new values:

  • We’re Kind
  • We’re Fair
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • To ensure involvement of education staff, the family / carer, other professional staff and the client in the therapy planning and programme. To provide therapy intervention if required.
  • To work with the school leadership team, Inclusion Manager and Teaching Assistant in promoting the child’s speech, language, and communication. To contribute to the setting and review of the child’s IEP, individualised work, and / or group work joint planning.
  • To provide therapy planning and intervention within a multidisciplinary framework wherever possible, working alongside SLT Assistants, Educational Psychologists, and therapy colleagues as well as Advisory Teachers.Ìý To seek appropriate opportunities to work alongside colleagues in a way that ensure a seamless service for the client.
  • To support the establishment and maintenance of standard speech language and communication approaches across education settings through developing and leading on standard and bespoke training sessions and reviewing the impact of this training.
  • To respond to the requirements of relevant Education legislation by providing advice as part of any re-assessment process and taking part in Annual and Transfer Reviews as appropriate. To write detailed official reports regarding the child’s Speech, Language and Communication and the Speech and Language Therapy advice for Statutory assessment including Education, Health, Care plans.
  • ÌýTo maintain and develop effective and innovative partnership arrangements with other agencies to ensure care pathways for clients are integrated.
  • To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education voluntary sector organizations, and parents / carers
  • To maintain a clinical caseload in accordance with priorities of service.
  • To refer on to other agencies as appropriate including services developed to support those requiring Assistive and Augmentative Communication (AAC).Ìý To liaise with specialist AAC centres and engage in seek professional updates on alternative and augmentative means of communication including sign, symbols, electronic and digital systems.
  • To recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and seek advice and support to resolve.
  • To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies
  • To supervise the work of newly qualified therapists, assistants/therapy support staff/administration and clerical staff and learning support assistants.
  • To explain the role of Speech & Language Therapists to visitors, students, and volunteers.
  • To monitor and evaluate own service delivery accessing clinical supervision on a planned basis.
  • To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate through mentoring, peer support, clinical and managerial supervision.
  • To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct.

Person specification

Education / Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
  • Registration with HCPC – Licence to Practice
  • Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapist

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Clinical experience of assessment and intervention of complex speech, language communication needs in school aged settings, including special schools.
  • Experience providing training for education staff
Desirable criteria
  • Experience working with secondary-aged CYP/a keen interest in doing so.

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills.
  • Excellent presentation skills, both verbal and written, of complex information to professionals and carers.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Sarah Tammadge
Job title
Special School Team Lead
Email address
[email protected]