Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Stammering

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Erith; On-site; GBP 51,000 - 59,000; Part time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a highly specialist Speech & Language Therapist to lead their stammering service in a community setting. This part-time role offers an opportunity to work with children and young people, providing tailored assessments and interventions. The ideal candidate will thrive in a dynamic team environment, contributing to the development of clinical guidelines and training programs. With a commitment to evidence-based practice, you'll play a crucial role in enhancing the lives of clients and their families. Join a supportive team that values professional development and collaboration with health and education partners.

Qualifications

• Experienced in delivering evidence-based interventions for stammering clients.
• Skilled in managing complex caseloads and providing supervision.

Responsibilities

• Lead the stammering service and provide specialist assessment and intervention.
• Develop care pathways in partnership with parents and education staff.

Skills

Speech & Language Therapy

Assessment & Intervention

Evidence-Based Practice

Clinical Governance

Education

Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree

Health Care Professions Council Registration

Further Training in Dysfluency

Job description

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Stammering

Band 7

Main area Children & Young People Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week Job ref 277-7057828-CYP-B

Site Erith Hospital Town Erith Salary £51,883 - £58,544 pro rata pa inc Salary period Yearly Closing 27/05/2025 23:59

Job overview

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead the stammering service in Bexley? If so come & join Bexley Children’s SLT Therapy team. You will be an experienced & self motivated highly specialist SALT who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, with responsibility for delivery of assessment & intervention to stammering clients to 19 years. As well as supporting a small team of SLT colleagues, you will lead on care pathway, training (both colleagues in the team & education colleagues), provide supervision & support across the SLT service, whilst demonstrating a track record of delivering evidence based interventions.

We offer both face to face & virtual appointments to children & young people who stammer & their families, & would consider applications from colleagues who may prefer a blended working pattern.

The Bexley Children’s SALT service is a dynamic & supportive team & we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision & support structures & would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical & management skills & contribute towards operational projects to support service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care & education.

Main duties of the job

For more information and a detailed description of the main duties please refer to the Job Description attached.

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 Listen
• We Care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To demonstrate highly specialist assessment and intervention (both 1:1 and group) for stammering clients, underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
• To manage complex and highly specialist caseload independently and plan the workload of others, offering highly specialist support and second opinions to SLT colleagues.
• To make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessment of complex cases.
• To work in partnership with parents /carers, young people and education staff, to support them to develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence with regards their stammer.
• To meet with parents, child and young people, taking and responding to feedback to develop care pathways and the quality of child and parent information.
• To take a clinical specialist role in the development of local clinical guidelines informed by evidence for children and young people with stammering and Speech, Language and communication needs (SLCN).
• To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a highly specialist therapist and maintain up to date HCPC and RCSLT registration.
• To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional, National and Local Clinical Guidelines with particular reference to stammering and SLCN.
• To develop and deliver specialist training to parents, young people and professionals in specialist area.
• To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in specialist area.
• To provide second opinions/advice to non-specialists and other specialists within clinical field.
• To demonstrate a sound working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance and their application to professional practice.
• To undertake team members’ Supervision and Personal Development Reviews.
• To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines and frequent interruptions.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Health Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice
• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of further training/short courses dysfluency

Experience

• Experience working as a highly specialist speech & language therapist in relevant clinical specialism in last 18 months
• Experience in supervising/supporting staff
• Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development

Knowledge

• Well established knowledge of evidence based interventions

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace that welcomes and supports individuals of all abilities. Remember, if you meet the minimum criteria for this role and you have a disability, you can be guaranteed an interview under the Disability Confident Scheme - Please ensure you select this on your application form. We would encourage you to be open about your needs so we can work with you to design a comfortable and accessible interview experience. Any information you provide regarding a disability or a need for adjustments will be treated in confidence and will only be shared with colleagues who are supporting this request.

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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.