Band 6 Speech and language therapist (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Speech and Language Therapy - Central [...]

CNWL; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join CNWL as a Full Time Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist in our Early Years Team. In this role, you will provide high-quality therapy to preschool children, conduct specialized assessments, and work collaboratively with a supportive team to enhance our service delivery. We value professional development and offer continuous training opportunities within a diverse and caring environment.

Benefits

Supportive and friendly team

Regular supervision meetings

Opportunities for clinical skills development

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• Experience working with preschool children.

Responsibilities

• Provide speech and language therapy to preschool children.
• Conduct assessments and develop therapy plans.
• Collaborate with parents and other professionals to enhance therapy.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Teamwork

Adaptability

Organizational Skills

Education

Recognised speech and language Therapy degree qualification (minimum of 2:1 or equivalent)

Health and Care Professions Council licence to practice

Registered member of RSCLT

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

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Become part of our team.
We care for you as much as you care for others.

There’s a place for you at CNWL.

We’re passionate about delivering first-class patient-centred, safe and effective care, whether it is in a hospital setting, in a community clinic or in the patient’s own home. Patients are at the heart of everything we do.

Providing top quality care depends on our ability to employ the best people.
We’re always looking to recruit outstanding people who will go the extra mile to support our patients, colleagues, teams and the Trust. With every new employee we’re hoping to find our future leaders and we’ll support our staff by providing opportunities to develop your career.

With a diverse culture and equally diverse range of opportunities across mental health, community services, addictions, eating disorders, learning disabilities and more – whatever stage of your career you're at, there's always a place for you at CNWL.

The Hillingdon Speech and Language Therapy department is a friendly, enthusiastic team where we strive to provide services of high quality for the diverse population of the London Borough of Hillingdon.

The service over the years has built up excellent relationships with parents, service users and the local authority. The Hillingdon paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is commended for continually developing their service based on evidence, feedback and innovations.

We have an opportunity for a Full Time band 6 speech and language therapist to work in our Early Years Team alongside our SLT Assistants

We are looking for enthusiastic, flexible and innovative therapists with a special interest and knowledge of working with children with a range of difficulties, to join the Early Years team. This post will require proficient skills in the assessment and management of pre school children, as well as working with other members of the team to support junior colleges and to continue to develop the service being offered. The appointed therapist will maintain up-to-date knowledge of national guidelines and policies related to service delivery.

The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist service to pre school children with speech language and communication needs/ Speech disorders/Social communication differences
• To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and diagnosis of children within Early Years settings
• To provide specialist ongoing therapy through individual therapy sessions and groups where appropriate
• To provide advice and training to parents and other professionals around early identification intervention and prevention.
• To contribute to, and provide feedback about, possible developments in the team

We can offer you:

• A supportive, friendly team of speech and language therapy colleagues
• An identified buddy
• Regular supervision meetings with a senior therapist every 6 weeks, along with an annual appraisal
• Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, read articles together and share your experiences
• A busy but manageable caseload working with pre-school children
• Working with experienced assistants
• Opportunities to develop your clinical skills and knowledge through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists, membership of a SIG/CEN, opportunities to invite a senior therapist for a joint consultation

Working for our organisation

Come and join us and be one of the friendly and supportive 1500 Therapists / AHP’s in CNWL. We work in many different teams in both physical and mental health, as well as a number of specialist areas. You could have a career for life with us and maintain your dual skills.

CNWL is very fortunate in having a long-established professional structure and this includes a Head of Therapies, an AHP associate director, Trust wide Professional Leads for all professional groups and borough and specialist professional leadership. This has the huge benefit of ensuring representation of our profession and therapies as a whole at all levels - both strategically and operationally.

Personal and professional development is a high priority for the profession this enables us to invest in the development of our staff by providing excellent internal training as well as commissioning specialised external training and providing quality supervision. This ensures all our therapists reach their full potential at every stage of their career. Our commitment to research, audit and evidence-based practice is made possible by our strong links with local universities and our CNWL AHP Research Network.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion are a priority for us in CNWL we expect staff to be culturally competent, reflective and open to culturally diverse CPD opportunities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.1 To assess, develop and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment.

1.2 To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.

1.3 To demonstrate highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children.

1.4 To facilitate relevant professionals/parents to carry out speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice

1.5 To monitor the effectiveness of speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice being delivered by other relevant professionals/parents and adjust as necessary

1.6 To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment seeking advice as appropriate

1.7 To develop clear packages of care based on best practice and differential diagnosis and to use specialist clinical knowledge to inform case management.

1.8 To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.

1 .9 To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in own specialist clinical area.

1.10 To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and supervisors and identify own strengths and development need

1.11 To manage own complex caseload independently and to prioritise workload using specialist skills, accessing support as appropriate

1.12 To ensure that children, their families and schools are involved in the planning and implementationof their care

1.13 To evaluate own delivery and to be accountable for own professional actions and decisions, and recognise own professional boundaries seeking advice as appropriate from supervisor/ team leader.

1.14 To report, in a timely manner, all concerns regarding Safeguarding issues to Team Leader or supervisor & to refer onto Social Services & Named Nurse for Safeguarding as appropriate, following the latest Safeguarding guidance/policy.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• Recognised speech and language Therapy degree qualification (minimum of 2:1 or equivalent)
• Health and Care Professions Council licence to practice
• Registered member of RSCLT (Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists)
• Further training courses relevant to the post
• Extensive training relevant to the post
• Attendance at special interest group/ clinical excellence group for eg Autism/dysfluency/complex needs

Previous Experience

• Experience of working with pre school children as a therapist
• Experience of assessing pre school children
• Experience of delivering training/parent workshops
• Experience of offering informal support to less experienced colleagues
• Experience of working in a multiagency/multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of leading on a project to improve/develop the service
• Experience of supervising a student
• Experience of developing and delivering training
• Experience of providing formal support to less experienced colleagues
• Experience of working with signalong

Skills and knowledge

• In depth knowledge of assessment tools and experience of using them relevant to school age and preschool
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to pre school age children
• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
• In-depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapy approaches, and experience in using them with pre school children
• Experience of contributing to an audit
• Good knowledge of the roles of other professionals relevant to pre school children.
• Good knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Experience of using Systm one as the main electronic record
• Experience of leading a clinical audit
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with professionals, children and their families
• Evidence of being a pro-active and supportive team member
• Good negotiation and problem solving skills
• Good organisational skills and ability to prioritise and meet deadlines

CNWL (Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust) has almost 8,000 staff providing integrated healthcare to a third of London's population, Milton Keynes and areas beyond. We involve service users, carers, the public, staff and partner organisations in the way that we are run.

Our catchment area spans diverse communities, with over 100 first languages spoken. It contains areas of great affluence as well as areas of much deprivation. We are committed to providing services that meet the needs of the people who use them, and we actively encourage involvement from local people who can help make a difference. We’re proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME and people with disabilities to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

We are recognised locally, nationally and internationally for providing high quality, innovative healthcare. We aim to employ only the best people, and our experts are frequently called upon to contribute to national health strategy and policy, and many models of our care have been adapted for use in other countries.

We offer a generous relocation package (subject to eligibility assessment) and flexible working options, including bank assignments for most roles. For more information on these and other benefits of working for us, see our Benefits, Reward and Wellbeing page

Become part of our team. We care for you as much as you care for others.

CNWL NHS Foundation Trust are committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. We follow safe recruitment practices to protect children and vulnerable adults.

Due to the high response levels we receive for some vacancies, we may expire any of them prior to the advertised closing date and advise you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Our Agenda for Change employment contracts are subject to a contractual 13 week probationary period.

If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Nicky Edmondson Job title Team lead Speech and Language Therapy, Early Years Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01895488200