Job overview

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead the stammering service in Bexley? If so come & join Bexley Children’s SLT Therapy team.  You will be an experienced & self motivated highly specialist SALT who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, with responsibility for delivery of assessment & intervention to stammering clients to 19 years. As well as supporting a small team of SLT colleagues, you will lead on care pathway,  training (both colleagues in the team & education colleagues), provide supervision & support across the SLT service, whilst demonstrating a track record of delivering evidence based interventions.

We offer both face to face & virtual appointments to children & young people who stammer & their families, & would consider applications from colleagues who may prefer a blended working pattern.

The Bexley Children’s SALT service is a dynamic & supportive team & we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision & support structures & would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical & management skills & contribute towards operational projects to support service development.  We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care & education.

Main duties of the job

For more information and a detailed description of the main duties please refer to the Job Description attached.  

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
• We Listen
• We Care