Job overview

There is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the Integrated Therapy team in Greenwich as the Lead for the External Contracts for schools. 

Are you an established leader, looking for a new leadership opportunity whilst still maintaining a clinical aspect to your role? 

Are you an emerging leader, seeking a supportive environment to consolidate your existing leadership and management skills alongside your firmly established clinical skills? 

If the answer is "yes" to either question, then this may be the role for you.

The post holder will provide leadership to the Integrated External Contracts Service in Greenwich, ensuring continued and co-ordinated service delivery and development. This will include clinical development and promotion of the Integrated Therapies Service.  The post holder will monitor and manage a delegated budget and work closely with the other Service Leads and Operational Manager for the Children’s Integrated Therapies Service.

In addition, the post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to Children and Young People within the External Contracts Service. They will support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for the strategic and operational leadership of the External Contracts Service within Children’s Integrated Therapies, ensuring high-quality, effective, and evidence-based therapy provision. This includes overseeing multidisciplinary teams (SLTs, OTs, PTs, assistants, techs, and admin staff), managing complex caseloads, and delivering highly specialist clinical input.

The postholder will coordinate service delivery, support workforce development, lead on service improvement and innovation aligned with national and local priorities, and contribute to strategic planning and governance.

The postholder will provide expert clinical leadership, ensure robust systems for supervision, appraisal and training, and promote collaborative multi-agency working. The role also includes responsibility for service evaluation, quality improvement, and contributing to the evidence base through research and audit.

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