Principal Therapist for Talking Therapies

6 days ago

Ilford, United Kingdom NELFT NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Would you like to work in a dynamic, ethnically diverse, NHS community paediatric Speech and Language Therapy team who prioritise training and supervision?

Our Speech and Language Therapy Team situated in the London Borough of Redbridge have an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join us on a full-time basis to work in our Mainstream Schools Team and Early Intervention Social Communication Team. We are a well-established service serving a diverse London community. This post will ideally suit an established Band 7 speech and language therapist looking for a new challenge or a band 6 therapist wishing to develop their skills and progress to a band 7 role pending meeting competencies.

Working as part of the team you will provide a service for children aged 0-18 presenting with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties within mainstream schools, community clinics and early years settings. 

You will be leading the team and working alongside existing post holders to develop the mainstream schools and early intervention social communication service, share management responsibilities and the caseload.

Main duties of the job

The Speech and Language Therapy Service in Redbridge operates within a multi-disciplinary team for children with additional needs and disabilities. We offer:

A programme of induction A team of friendly, supportive colleagues A well developed and supportive MDT. An accessible base close to an underground (Central Line) and mainline station (Elizabeth Line) Opportunities for frequent contact with other speech and language therapists within NELFT. A well-developed support, supervision and appraisal structure. Extensive opportunities for continuing professional development (attending specialist courses). Well developed agile working facilities. Opportunities to work both face-to-face and remotely via teletherapy.

Candidates will need to demonstrate the following requirements:

A recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent and relevant professional registration. Providing an advanced standard of assessment, clinical diagnosis, treatment and management of communication difficulties in children.  Devising and delivering appropriate, highly specialist intervention/care plans of speech and language therapy for clients. Experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist in Mainstream Schools and with pre-school children with social communication difficulties and Autism.  Outstanding interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member. Experience in supervising other team members.

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment.As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The main responsibilities of the post:

Leading on the development and provision of an Early Intervention service for pre-school children with social communication difficulties in clinics and contributing to the Autism diagnostic pathway. Taking a lead role in providing and developing the SLT assessment service to school-aged children with speech, language and communication needs and an intervention service to those schools choosing to buy-in SLT in the borough of Redbridge.  Independently manage own and others workload in the day-to-day allocation of work.  Work closely with clients carers, families and professionals to raise awareness, knowledge and skills related to the range of strategies that improve speech, language and communication outcomes across settings. Making highly specialist clinical decisions following assessment of complex cases. Planning and implementing specialist packages of support and intervention. Providing clinical support/supervision for SLT’s working in clinic and mainstream school settings. Working in the context of a multi- disciplinary team in health, social care and education services in Redbridge. Provide specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents, carers, students and speech and language therapy team

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist working in Mainstream schools including appropriate assessments, treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems and communication aids.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Demonstrates professional knowledge as evidenced by 1st degree level or qualification or equivalent HCPC registration Membership of RCSLT Membership of relevant specialist interest group

Experience

Essential criteria

Experience working as a Speech and Language therapist with pre-school children with speech language and communication difficulties and especially those with Autism.

Skills

Essential criteria

Ability to critically analyse the validity of assessments and interventions and clearly communicates the results to parents/carers/colleagues

Skills

Essential criteria

Outstanding interpersonal skills,verbal and written communication skills and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

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