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Job overview

Oxleas is a great place to work.  It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced, motivated and innovative therapist to join the service in the role of Principal Speech and Language Therapist, Autism and Social Communication difficulties.

You will be part of a large and supportive team comprising of Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, therapy assistants and a well resourced admin team, delivering services to children and young people within the Royal Borough of Greenwich (RBG).

You will have responsibilities, alongside the Service Leads, Principal Therapists and Highly Specialist Therapists, in providing leadership within the team. You will provide clinical expertise to the team in the clinical area of Autism and Social Communication difficulties and have the opportunity to shape service delivery alongside colleagues from the CYP Directorate.

We are a inclusive, innovative and forward thinking team. We provide excellent internal supervision and support structures and a dynamic environment where you can develop your clinical and leadership skills, with opportunities to contribute towards service development projects.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children and young people with Speech, Language and Communication difficulties, supporting parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management. 

You will provide leadership and clinical expertise within the service, in the area of Autism/Social Communication difficulties.

You will lead a team of speech and language therapists including providing supervision, appraisal, competency development and training.

You will provide highly specialist second opinions to other speech and language therapists /external professionals and support in the training and development of therapists in the team. 

You will contribute to the multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessments as part of the Greenwich Integrated Neurodevelopment (IND) Team.

You will lead on developments in service provision for children and young people with Autism including in the development of policies and procedures relating to clinical care, evidence-based practice, care pathways and outcome development.

You will contribute to Trust, service and professional wide initiatives.

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

• We Listen

• We Care