Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Sidcup; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work with children and young people experiencing dysphagia and complex needs. The role includes managing a team, providing assessments, and coordinating support across various settings. Candidates should hold a relevant degree, have considerable experience, and be a registered member of a professional body. This position offers a chance to make a meaningful impact in child development, within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years postgraduate experience with children and young people who have complex needs.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency settings.
• Ability to assess and implement low-tech AAC support strategies.

Responsibilities

• Manage and supervise the team of therapists and assistants.
• Provide specialist second opinions to speech and language therapists.
• Plan outreach support for early years transitions and ongoing dysphagia management.
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessments.

Skills

Experience with dysphagia

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

AAC support strategies

Education

Speech & Language Therapy degree

Post graduate paediatric dysphagia training

Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

We are looking for aHighly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to work with children and young people who have dysphagia and complex needs. You will see children and families in our Child Development Centre, in local clinics, nurseries, schools, special schools and in their homes.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children and young people with dysphagia (eating, drinking and swallowing disorders), complex needs and other types of speech language and communication needs, supporting parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management.

About us

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 Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for managing and supervising the team of therapists and assistants providing communication and dysphagia support within the Child Development Centre and special/mainstream schools.

They will provide highly specialist second opinions to other speech and language therapists. They will plan and organise outreach support to therapists working in early years and mainstream settings to support childrens transition, and ongoing dysphagia management.

They will contribute to multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessments as part of the Child Development Centre and multi-disciplinary Paediatric Dysphagia pathway.

They will lead on developments within the Dysphagia and Complex Needs team and contribute to the broader service including in the development of policies and procedures relating to clinical care, evidence-based practice, care pathways and outcome development.

They will provide second opinions to other Speech and Language Therapists / external professionals.

The post holder will be a part of the services senior leadership team and will contribute to Trust, service, and professional wide initiatives.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of post graduate paediatric dysphagia training
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapist
• 4 years post graduate experience ( working with children and young people who have complex needs.

Experience

• 4 years post graduate experience working with children and young people who have complex needs.
• Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter agency working.

Experience

• Experience of assessing and implementing a variety of low-tech AAC support strategies.

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.