Speech and Language Therapist
3 months ago
Job summary
Join our friendly team in Bexley working with children and young people attending Bexley Special Schools. We are a well-established team that can offer fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career. Would you want to join The Bexley Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) Team, winners of the Children and Young People's Directorate Team of the Year award 2021? Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organization; with new values: We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care . Located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting.
You will 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 special schools in Bexley. Opportunity to develop both assessment and intervention skills.
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 reflect on clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.
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.
About us
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 new values:
We're Kind We're Fair We Listen We Care Job description
Job responsibilities
The Bexley Childrens Speech and Language Therapy service offers a range of services with specialist teams across EYs, ASD, Hearing Impairment, Dysfluency, Specialist Resourced Provisions and SEMH. We work closely across teams to provide clinical support and second opinions. We also have opportunities to develop training skills to enhance skills and knowledge for staff working with children with SLCN.
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 special schools in Bexley. Opportunity to develop both assessment and intervention skills.
To be an integral member of the multidisciplinary team providing an integrated care pathway.
To support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management, with access to supervision from senior therapists.
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 alongside senior colleagues.
To work as part of a team with class-teachers, learning support assistants, head teacher, therapists, and the childs family / carers.
Person Specification
Registration
Essential
HCPC Registration Royal College of Speech & Language Therapy Registration
Qualifications
Essential
Speech & Language Therapy Degree
Experience
Essential
Experience of working alongside children and young people use require/utilise AAC Experience of working alongside children/young people with learning disabilities
Training
Desirable
Evidence of successful completion of a range of short courses/learning including courses/learning related to AAC-
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