Job vacancy: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 824-ONW-6947-A

Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chalkhill Primary Care Centre
Town: London
Salary: £49,178 - £55,492 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/05/2024 23:59

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 7

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide a highly specialist clinical speech and language therapy service, working in close collaboration with speech and language therapy colleagues, parents, carers, education staff and a range of health professionals in order to meet the communication and eating and drinking needs of children with complex special needs and their families.
To provide training and support to carers, speech and language therapists and other professionals in the highly specialist clinical area.
Be an active member of the clinical team, providing a comprehensive Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapy service.
Work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promote best practice and to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
Build up and maintain key relationships with referring services (including within the MDTs, primary and secondary care services, voluntary and third sector organisations) to facilitate appropriate referrals and an understanding of the role of the Speech & Language Therapist and the Multi-professional team.
Be responsible for the supervision of junior staff; Speech & Language Therapists and Speech & Language Therapy students.
Work in a variety of settings in the community to deliver appropriate treatment including, clinics, client’s own home, nurseries.
Support self and service development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

Registration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
Registered member of RCSLT.
Courses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework

Desirable criteria

Membership of relevant CEN

Experience

Essential criteria

Working with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical reasoning based on evidenced-based practice within paediatrics.
Specialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
Working collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
Knowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
Experience of service development
Experience of offering clinical supervision

Desirable criteria

Evidence of team/leadership responsibilities
Experience of undertaking appraisal and planning CPD for less experienced staff
Working in multi-cultural community

Skills

Essential criteria

Knowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques and therapeutic interventions
Demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidence-based practice
Child development and its application to speech and language therapy
Understanding of safeguarding
Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
Understanding and application of standards of record keeping and reporting.
Working knowledge of the roles of other professionals in Health, Education and Social Care involved with CYP.
Demonstrates well developed ability to analyse and reflect upon complex information.
Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
Evidence of excellent organisational skills
Prioritisation skills • Able to work independently as an autonomous practitioner.
Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities.
Negotiation, problem solving concentration, analytical and reflection skills.
Good Written presentation skills information in clear and logical manner • Present information in clear and logical manner • Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy. • Good awareness of IT and IT skills
Present information in clear and logical manner
Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy.
Good awareness of IT and IT skills

Desirable criteria

Health cleared by occupational health for the role specified.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Fiona Weir
Job title: Principle Speech and Language Therapist
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07884752664

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