Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 824-SOUTH-7242652-A
- Employer
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cricket Green Polyclinic
- Town
- Mitcham
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
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 14 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster, Hillingdon, Sutton, Kingston - 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
Merton Community Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service
Band 7 Highly Specialist - Children’s Speech & Language Therapist
(Complex Needs and Dysphagia)
Part-time/negotiable
Do you feel passionately about delivering the best possible SLT care to children and young people with complex communication needs and dysphagia?
Do you want to develop and support the dysphagia needs of our SLT team?
Want a chance to shape and influence SLT clinical service delivery?
We are looking for an experienced, passionate Speech & Language Therapist with complex needs experience and paediatric dysphagia skills to be part of our dynamic team in Merton.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to provide assessment, advice and treatment for dysphagia to infants, children and young people (birth-19yrs) and for communication to an early years complex needs caseload in the community. You will also support and develop the wider team’s paediatric dysphagia knowledge. You will work as part of the Preschool Complex Needs Team, including work in clinics/schools and family homes with a largely preschool population. This is a unique opportunity for the right person to assist in developing and supporting the paediatric dysphagia skills of SLTs in Merton. The successful candidate will also need to demonstrate an understanding of current alternative and augmentative communication approaches (high, mid and low tech).
Find out more information about working and living in South West London here - https://clch.nhs.uk/job/working-clch/clch-southwestlondon#!/select_sector
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme(only available for Band 5 and up)
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised SLT degree or equivalent.
- Current AHP with UK HCPC registration
- Member of a relevant Clinical Excellence Network
- Evidence of competence in managing complex dysphagic patients in the 0-19 age group including those requiring enteral feeding
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant post-registration education and training e.g. SCERTS, VERVE, Intensive Interaction, Attention Autism, Hanen, Gestalt Language Processing, AAC, Dysphagia, Infant Feeding, Breastfeeding, Tracheostomy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience of working in a variety of clinical settings
- Experience of working and liaising with other MDT professionals
- Recent experience within community SLT setting, specialising in complex needs and dysphagia in a paediatric population
- Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions.
- Able to communicate with families and young people in an empathetic manner regarding their treatment and procedures.
- Experience of supervising/ managing junior staff and students
- Experience working with families from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
- Experience in the assessment and management of patients who require AAC
- Participation in audit; research projects; service development
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working within a community paediatric SLT service.
- Experience of working through the RCSLT NQP and dysphagia frameworks with junior SLTs
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills.
- Highly specialist knowledge of a wide range of appropriate therapeutic interventions and evidence of a specialist level of clinical expertise in relevant areas.
- Independence in managing dysphagia within a paediatric population.
- Ability to use IT including PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Awareness of the management and use of data in the NHS setting
Desirable criteria
- Completion of CPD related to dysphagia management
Key Attributes
Essential criteria
- Ability to address sensitive issues e.g.complex condition-related information to families/carers
Desirable criteria
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010) or be able to travel around independently using public transport or another mode or transport
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Scowcroft
- Job title
- SLT Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07900496597
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