Speech and Language Therapist

4 weeks ago

London Borough of Hillingdon, United Kingdom Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

Are you a recently qualified or soon to be qualified speech and language therapist? Or do you just want to try something new?

Do you love working in mainstream schools?

We have a part-time 0.8 WTE job for you

We want to invite you to join the incredibly supportive Mainstream Schools Team working in the outer London Borough of Hillingdon.

Have a look at our Hillingdon Talks, Moves and Plays website to see if we would be a good fit for you

"Starting my career as a Speech and Language Therapist in Hillingdon Mainstream Schools team has given me a brilliant platform to develop my clinical skills with a varied caseload. Everyone is really friendly and I feel very supported through regular peer support meetings, buddying, safeguarding supervision and supervision with a senior therapist. "– Hannah- band 5 

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

You will be responsible for the assessment and therapy for the children attending your allocated schools who have identified SLCN needs including: developmental language disorder, speech sound disorders, stammering, selective mutism, learning difficulties and autism You will work directly with the children in groups and individually with an LSA observing the sessions in order to run follow up intervention You will run joint sessions with Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists You will offer training, advice and support to school staff You will support parents and keep in touch with them via phone calls or meetings, as well as sending them copies of care plans and targets and any reports You will jointly plan how to use your time in schools with the SENCO; allowing you to be flexible, creative and effective You will write statutory assessment and annual review reports You will be part of clinical working groups to help develop the service

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Working for our organisation

We can offer you:

A bright and homely office space to come back to - where you will get informal support, be able to ask questions and talk about your day An identified buddy to help you settle in and who you can ask lots of questions A friendly team with lots of initiatives to support well-being Regular supervision meetings with a senior therapist weekly at first and gradually moving to 6 weeks  Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, share your experiences with other band 5 colleagues A busy but manageable caseload across a range of schools  Opportunities for remote working in school and at home as well as access to online clinical records and resources Opportunities to develop your clinical skills through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists, membership of a CEN, internal and external training Opportunities to work on projects with small groups of more experienced therapists to develop your skills

We are proud to say that the service has:

91% of SENCO’s report that they are happy or very happy with the service 92.5% of parents report that they are happy or very happy with the service. A parent representative attends all of the mainstream schools meetings and parent feedback is sought for new developments An annual service improvement plan in order to ensure that the service is continually evolving and developing

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Mainstream Schools team:

To provide a service to children/young people in mainstream schools who have aspeech, language or communication need. To be responsible for providing assessment, diagnosis & therapy packages into allocated schools. To train and support school staff & parents, in order for them to implement therapy advice effectively. To support schools with the early identification of children with speech/language/communication needs. To prioritise the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children at all times To support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators and maintain Target Activity Levels To take part in quality governance, audits and projects for the team/service To contribute to, and provide feedback about, possible developments in the team

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.

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