Bank Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

A community health trust in the UK is seeking a Bank Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to enhance support for preschool children. This role offers opportunities for clinical development in a supportive team dedicated to early intervention strategies. Candidates must possess a relevant degree and substantial experience in assessing and treating children with speech and language difficulties. Flexible working options are available.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Training and development opportunities

Car lease scheme

Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years' postgraduate experience with children having complex needs.
• Experience in performing assessments and diagnostics for SLC difficulties.
• Background in multi-disciplinary team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Develop and evaluate specialist programmes for preschool children.
• Contribute to quality improvement of the SLT early years service.
• Train early years staff to create communication supportive environments.

Skills

Excellent interpersonal skills

Team working skills

Ability to assess and implement care

Clinical governance principles

Education

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree

Health Care Professionals Council Registration

Registered member of RCSLT

Job description

Bank Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

BANK - Early Years Service - Kensington and Chelsea -

Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Come and join the CLCH SLT Early Years team!

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an NQP or experienced Band Speech and Language Therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy Early Years Service at Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust.

We are looking for a speech and language therapist with enthusiasm, excellent interpersonal and team-working skills who are seeking to develop and broaden their clinical experience of working with preschool children in a highly skilled, dynamic and supportive team.

Our Early Years team works in close partnership with local stakeholders to deliver SLCN support across the Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea. Our Speech and Language Therapy Service supports prevention and early intervention targeted support in addition to comprehensive assessment and evidence-based therapy packages for pre-school children with a range of SLCN. We are using local population health data to tailor our support offers. We have worked closely with our partners to develop local Parent SLCN Champions to support other parents and co-production across a range of areas.

Take a look at our recruitment video to find out more about working in our teams: CLCH S&L Recruitment - YouTube

Contact us now to arrange an informal chat.

Main duties of the job

Join us if you want to:

• Continue to develop your clinical skills working with a varied preschool caseload, carrying out assessments, identifying needs, developing, implementing and evaluating specialist programmes of care.
• Work with early years staff and families to embed communication supportive environments and run evidence based targeted interventions.
• Support the development of the universal and targeted service to children and families with a range of SLC needs.
• Be part of a service which has an active diversity and inclusion ethos where EDI is established as part of our Business as Usual when thinking about our service users and our staff.
• Contribute to the quality improvement work of the wider CLCH SLT early years service.
• Work in innovative, motivated teams in a supportive and progressive environment.
• Have access to excellent supervision and support, a range of training and shadowing opportunities, to ensure strong clinical performance and development opportunities.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, 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 *T&C's apply
• Flexible working options
• 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

Job responsibilities

**Please refer to job description, person specification and trust values, for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.**

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Health Care Professionals Council Registration to Practise
• Registered member of RCSLT with the right to work in the UK
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Masters degree or equivalent in specialist area (e.g. AAC courses)
• Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)

Experience

• A minimum of 3 years' postgraduate experience working with children with complex needs who present with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
• Experience of carrying out assessment and differential diagnosis including complex disorders
• Experience of implementing a range of therapeutic interventions for children with complex needs in range of settings
• Experience of collaborative multi-disciplinary and inter agency working
• Extensive experience of working collaboratively with and training parents/carers, teachers, TAs and other health/education professionals.
• Experience of planning, organising and delivering training programmes
• Experience of working with children with complex needs, including learning difficulties and challenging behaviour.
• Experience of writing statutory assessment/EHCP advice
• Experience of planning and delivering therapy in small groups
• Previous NHS experience
• Experience of implementing the principles of clinical governance in clinical practice (e.g. clinical audits

Skills

• Well established clinical skills and experience of a broad range of standardised and functional assessment tools relevant to children with complex SLC needs and evidence-based interventions relevant to the client group
• Highly developed clinical skills and postgraduate experience in the assessment, differential diagnosis and interventions for children with complex needs who present with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties including, Down Syndrome, Learning Disabilities and Profound/Multiple Learning Disability and Autism
• Knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication systems.
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team including excellent communication, liaison, negotiation, and clinical reasoning skills
• Ability to train pre-school/ school staff to carry out communication aims with children with a range of difficulties
• Understanding of safeguarding and child protection procedures
• Understanding of statutory processes regarding education for children with special education needs.
• Experience of contributing to service development projects.
• An ability to speak a non-European language.
• Good supervision skills and experience of supervising Student Speech and Language Therapists.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Parkview Centre for Health and Wellbeing

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Reference number

824-BANK-LIT1478-A

Job locations

Parkview Centre for Health and Wellbeing