Speech and Language Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Foots Cray; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an SLT to provide clinical and advisory services to preschool and school-age children with diverse speech, language, and communication needs. The role spans community clinics and early years settings, working within an integrated team and multidisciplinary environment.

You will assess, diagnose, and deliver evidence-based therapy, including individual, paired, and small group interventions and parent workshops, while monitoring progress and adapting targets

Qualifications

• Provide clinical assessment and diagnosis of speech and language needs in children.
• Deliver individual, paired and small group SLT interventions and parent workshops.
• Manage a caseload independently with supervision as required.

Responsibilities

• Work across community clinics, children's centres and other early years settings.
• Participate in multi-disciplinary work with health, education and family services.
• Deliver care in line with professional guidelines and standards.
• Monitor progress and modify therapy targets as needed.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Teamwork

Parent workshops

Job description

To provide a clinical and advisory SLT service to pre-school children, some schoolage children and young people with diverse speech, language, and communication needs, including social communication differences/ Autism. To provide a service across community clinics, children's centres and other early years settings. To work as part of an integrated team with Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and SLT colleagues. To participate in multi-disciplinary work with colleagues in health, education, parents / carers., To provide an assessment, diagnostic and treatment service for children referred to the community clinic/early years' service within the Borough of Bexley. To manage a caseload independently, accessing clinical/managerial supervision on a regular basis and to make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking advice when appropriate. To deliver care in line with the RCSLT/HCPC professional guidelines and standards. To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment and treatment of speech sound disorders. To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment of language and communication and deliver individual, paired and small group interventions and parent workshops. To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapy interventions. To monitor and review the progress of therapy programmes implemented and facilitate modifications of interventions / targets as appropriate.
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're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care