Job summary
- Main area
- SALT
- Grade
- 5
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working - Various
- Job ref
- 824-BANK-LIT1398
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chlakhill Primary Care Centre
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £18.02 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 23/05/2025 11:00
Employer heading
Bank B5 SALT ONW
5
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.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Job Purpose
To provide a Speech and Language Therapy Service to mainstream schools in CLCH.
The post holder will act as a link Speech and Language Therapist to a number of Mainstream Schools in CLCH jointly prioritizing referrals with teachers/SENCOs
The post holder will
· Assess the need for, develop and implement Speech and Language Therapy treatment to children and young people referred to mainstream schools with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs.
· Work together with parents/carers and school staff teachers/SENCOs.
· Run in-service training for school staff with support from a more experienced colleague when necessary.
· be accountable for their own professional actions and recognize their own professional boundaries seeking advice from senior colleagues as appropriate.
Main duties of the job
To assess the need for, develop and implement Speech and Language Therapy treatment to children referred within CLCH with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties attending mainstream schools.
To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of children’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, school and other relevant settings
To monitor all aspects of parent/teacher interactions with children. In particular, to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication.
To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence-based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to children and their families within clearly defined care plans.
To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment seeking advice as appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To contribute to assessment and review procedures under the Education Act and the Code of Practice
· To produce reports regarding children’s needs, summarising proposed care plans and ensuring that these are integrated into the child’s Individual Education Plan
· To provide advice to teaching and support staff regarding the management and support of children with a wide range of communication difficulties to facilitate their access to the curriculum.
· To provide advice to parents and carers regarding the management and support of children with a wide range of communication difficulties, ensuring carry over from school to home.
· To contribute to clinical and educational teams both multi-disciplinary and uni disciplinary by discussing own and others input around CYPs needs ensuring a well-co-ordinated care plan which is intrinsic to the child’s Individual Education Plan
Person specification
Education/Qualification
Essential criteria
- Degree and Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registered membership of HPC and RCSLT
Experience
Essential criteria
- Working with children in clinics and/or school based settings
Desirable criteria
- Training others
- Adult-Child Interaction(ACI)
- Working with multi-cultural client groups
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Awareness of needs of parents, teachers and others
- Flexibility
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of children with a broad range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Governance
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shanelle Green
- Job title
- Bank recruitment business partner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02039378322
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