Job overview

Are you looking for a new opportunity to further build your clinical skills?  Does a band 5 to 6 development post appeal to you?  If so, you are in the right place.  Keep reading! Join our friendly team in Bexley working with children and young people .  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.

The post will provide a  clinical and advisory Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) service to children with speech, language and communication needs in the early years and school age years including children with social communication differences and/or ASD and associated language disorder.

We have secured funding to support the possibility of the successful candidate transitioning to a Band 6 specialist role within 18 months of joining the team, following an individualised development plan based on performance and clinical competencies.  Both the band 5 and band 6 job descriptions are attached to the advert for this post.

Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.

Main duties of the job

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To deliver care in line with the RCSLT/HCPC professional guidelines and standards.

5. 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.

6. To ensure maximum involvement of the client, family/carer, education staff and other professional staff where appropriate in planning care and the therapy programme.

7. To reflect on clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidence of sound clinical practice.

8. 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.

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