Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist In Deafness

Barts Health NHS Trust; City Of London; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS trust in London is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist specializing in deafness for an 11-month fixed-term position. The role involves working with children and young people aged 0-19, providing clinical assessments and interventions while managing a small team. A degree in Speech and Language Therapy and post-qualification experience in deafness are essential. Competitive salary offered.

Qualifications

• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Successful completion of a highly specialist post-graduate study relevant to deafness.
• Knowledge and understanding of sign language development and audiology assessments.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly specialist clinical assessment and intervention to children with significant hearing loss.
• Contribute towards the wider team clinically and through line managing a small number of staff.
• Participate actively in the education and training of student speech and language therapists.

Skills

BSL skills at signature level 1 or equivalent

Good clinical skills / specialist knowledge across a wide range of deafness and communication difficulties

Good organisational and prioritisation skills

Critical appraisal skills

Competency in checking cochlear implant processors and hearing aids

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

HPC Registration and Licence to Practice

Member of RCSLT

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist In Deafness

Come and join our award winning innovative, creative, forward thinking and supportive children's therapy team. If you are interested in deafness and have a child centred/ child led therapy approach this may be the role for you.

A band 7 fixed term for 11 months speech and language therapy position specialising in deafness has recently arisen as a result of staff maternity leave.

The post holder will work across a range of ages and settings with babies, children and young people with a range of types and degrees of deafness, age range 0-19 years. You will join a well-established community integrated therapy team, where you will be supported by a very experienced specialist in deafness alongside experienced speech and language therapists, Occupational therapists and physio therapists. You will line manage one member of staff and run clinical supervision sessions for band 5 or band 6 speech and language therapists.

The integrated therapy team has a person centred, evidence based, and participation focused approach to support for children, young people and families. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team for deaf CYP in Tower Hamlets, working particularly closely with teachers of the deaf.

We have total communication approach where all modes of communication are valued and supported and where the use of sign is actively encouraged. Experience of using sign in your work is particularly valuable.

Main duties of the job

The Community Children and young people Therapy Service sits in Specialist Community Children's Services based at Mile End Hospital. It offers an integrated community based therapy service to the children and young people of Tower Hamlets and is delivered predominantly in schools, pre-school settings, clinics and service users homes.

This job role will provide highly specialist clinical assessment and intervention to children from birth to 19 years for children with a significant hearing loss in one or both ears. In addition the post holder will contribute towards the wider team both clinically and through line managing a small number of staff. They will work jointly with key deaf professionals in the borough to support the children and families, such as teachers of the deaf and deaf instructor. The team has a total communication approach and you will be expected to advocate strongly for the use of sign language (BSL) within this and to have a good understanding of the deaf community.

Multi-disciplinary working is an integral part of all aspects of this job, as is teaching and training around the specialist areas of communication disability. The post-holder will participate actively in the education and training of student speech and language therapists and other health professionals, including medical and AHP teams.

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• HPC Registration and Licence to Practice
• Member of RCSLT
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Successful completion of a highly specialist post-graduate study relevant to the deafness (e.g. Recognised short courses in the field of deafness and technology such as cochlear implants)
• Evidence of understanding of research in the field of deafness and hearing loss
• Knowledge and understanding of the following areas: Sign language development and linguistics, audiology assessments, hearing aids, cochlear implants.
• Good understanding of the clinical governance principles
• Basic Knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research approaches and the key elements to writing a research protocol
• Demonstrates knowledge of HPC code of ethics and professional conduct

Experience

• Post-qualification experience working within deafness.
• Proven experience of a range of highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to deafness, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches.
• Experience of assessment and management of communication difficulties both developmental and acquired in the paediatric population.
• Clinical experience within the NHS
• Experience in supervision of SLT students.
• Working with children/families from multi-cultural/multi-lingual backgrounds and working with interpreters
• Competency in checking cochlear implant processors and hearing aids
• Relevant clinical courses short courses and membership of relevant CEN groups in deafness
• Carrying out evidence based research projects/audit projects
• Team leadership experience

Skills

• BSL skills at signature level 1 or equivalent
• Good clinical skills / specialist knowledge across a wide range of deafness and communication difficulties
• Skills in delivering presentations and training including basic adaptations to presentation/training style for a range of audiences.
• Good organisational and prioritisation skills
• Ability to lone work
• Critical appraisal skills
• Working knowledge of IT
• BSL skills at signature level 2 or equivalent
• Advanced approaches to support children and carers with challenging behaviour, mental health needs and those in high levels of distress

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.

Salary: £56,276 to £63,176 a year (pro rata for part-time)