Job summary
- Main area
- Children & Young People
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 277-6651213-CYP
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- OPD, Erith Hospital
- Town
- Erith
- Salary
- £42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 02/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - SEMH
Band 6
Job overview
To provide a clinical and advisory SLT service to mainstream school aged children and young people with a diverse range of speech, language, and communication needs. Including those with complex needs e.g., biomedical disorders and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
The post holder will provide a specialist service to children and young people with social emotional and mental health needs (SEMH) in a range of settings and young people referred by the Youth Justice Service (YJS). You will also work with young people with speech, language and communication needs in mainstream school, college and alternative settings.
The post holder is supported by a band 7 Highly Specialist Therapist and team lead. You will have line management by the SLT service.
You will be responsible for supporting case workers, educators, parents and other professionals in order to best support children and young people to access relevant educational and community environments and the youth justice service. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the young person.
Main duties of the job
To provide an assessment, diagnostic and treatment service for children referred to the school aged teams within the Borough of Bexley.
To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapy interventions in particular for language and SEMH needs.
To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of DLD / language disorders co-occurring with SEMH needs, providing second opinions and supervision to other members of the team.
To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of speech sound disorders, and providing supervision to other members of the team.
To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of autism spectrum disorder, and providing supervision to other members of the team.
To demonstrate an awareness of neurodiversity affirming practice/language, evidencing the ability to practice using principles that respect their clients' unique communication styles and promote a more inclusive and effective approach.
To manage a specialist caseload independently and improve the quality of transitions for young people across settings.
Working for our organisation
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will work alongside more junior speech and language therapy colleagues for whom you will provide supervision. You will contribute to refining pathways / models of provision to support children with SLCN attending mainstream and Secondary schools, or alternative provisions. You will contribute to audit and measuring outcomes in order to support service development. You will participate in service research projects and in specialist projects within the service.
To work as part of an integrated team with Speech and Language therapy assistants and SLT colleagues. To participate in multi-disciplinary work with colleagues in health, education, and parents/carers.
To manage a highly complex caseload independently.
To reflect on own clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.
To develop and deliver training demonstrating specialist knowledge, to develop and deliver joint training together with professionals from other disciplines.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and developmental needs.
To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of language disorder which may include Developmental Language Disorder / Language Disorder co-occurring with Social, emotional and mental health needs (SEMH).
To contribute to the formulation and review/update of clinical care pathways.
To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking advice when appropriate. Written reports / care plans will be completely in a timely manner to service users and appropriate agencies.
To demonstrate high level of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures. To be a source of expertise and hold knowledge of best evidence-based practice in a specialist clinical area that will be shared with other team members.
To monitor and review the progress of therapy programmes and care plans implemented and facilitate modifications of interventions/targets as appropriate.
To demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues to generate appropriate strategies for caseload and workload management.
To adapt practice to meet individual clients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
To maintain intense concentration in all aspects of patient management for prolonged periods. In particular, to monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication, adapting and facilitating according to perceived client needs including cultural and linguistic differences.
To ensure maximum involvement of the family / carer, education staff and other professional staff and where appropriate the client in the therapy programme. To provide therapy intervention as part of an integrated team.
To work alongside school aged / early years' educators and SLT assistants in delivering jointly planned programmes of intervention for speech, language, communication, and educational achievement.
To maintain and develop effective and innovative partnership arrangements with other agencies to ensure care pathways for clients are integrated.
To maintain a clinical caseload in accordance with priorities of service.
Person specification
HCPC Registration and RCSLT membership
Essential criteria
- Must have both to proceed
Evidence of attendance on short courses relevant to specialism
Essential criteria
- Attendance at relevant post training courses relevant to school aged children with SLCN
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at SEMH specific courses e.g. Attachment, Trauma informed practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in schools
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
- Clare Brightwell
- Job title
- Coordinator of School Aged Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02030040092
- Additional information
Majik Moat - JCT Co-ordinator - [email protected]
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