Highly Specialist Complex Needs Speech and Language Therapist

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

JOB OVERVIEW

We are looking for a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our small and friendly community team in the London borough of Sutton. We are a community based service providing clinic and domiciliary support under Sutton Health and Care (attached to Epsom and St Helier NHS trust).
The post holder will provide an evidence-based service that anticipates and responds to the needs of children with complex needs requiring assessment and access to Augmentative and Alternative Communication systems (AAC). They will work in partnership with children, their families and with other professions and agencies to reduce the impact of these difficulties on children’s social and emotional development, their learning and their ability to participate in daily life.
The postholder will also be involved alongside the team leaders in the development and delivery of a new pathway aimed at using Parent Child Interaction therapy to support families of children with complex needs.

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Working knowledge of NHS systems ee.g. EMIS
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

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.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

To assess, diagnose, treat and manage a caseload of children with complex health and learning needs requiring AAC
To provide training as required to enable SLT programmes to be implemented as part of children’s therapy package.
To deliver a pilot project running PCI workshops with parents and evaluating the effectiveness
To be involved in planning the development of the SLT service in liaison with the SLT Team Leader.
To offer second opinions and advice to staff writing SLT statutory assessment advice.
To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
To work across agreed clinical populations, to manage the implementation of a service that is targeted to need, and supports and empowers families, to improve health and life chance outcomes for children, by giving every child the opportunity to develop their potential; ensuring early detection and referral of problems.
To participate as a full Sutton Health and Care SLT Team member.

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.