Job overview

Bank Speech & Language Assistant Band 4

Are you looking for a new opportunity, looking out for a new team or career development? If so, join our friendly and innovative team in Bexley where you will find fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career.  You will provide direct support to children receiving specialist support under the Oxleas SLT service with oversight from an SLT. You will also support with projects to help with service improvements and work efficiencies.

Please note Bank work is on an as and when required basis

Main duties of the job

·        To provide support and assistance to therapists working with children in the London Borough of Bexley referred to the mainstream schools (JCT) or Resource provisions attached to mainstream schools.

·  To carry out specific therapy and communication development programmes with children and young people on a 1:1 basis and in small groups at mainstream and/or resource provisions attached to mainstream schools.

·   To carry out specialised techniques and procedures under the direction of a Speech and Language Therapist

·         To set up and deliver face to face/virtual therapy support and training packages working with the Speech and Language Therapist

· To support parents/carers to enable children to fulfil their developmental potential.

·   To assist with administration duties as required by the school and service including electronic case records, paper records, typing reports, therapy programmes, preparing and making therapy resources, photocopying, sending appointments, filing and data collection.

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