Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
at Whittington Health NHS Trust
London HA8 0AD, England, United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 15 Apr, 2025 | GBP 58544 Annual | 17 Jan, 2025 | N/A | Outcome Measures,Clinics,Clinical Supervision | No | No |
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Description:
Barnet Children’s Integrated Therapies have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and self-motivated SLT, who is experienced in interdisciplinary working with children and young people in the community, to join a fixed term Project we are running with our Education partners at Barnet Council, from 1st January 2025 to 31st August 2025.
Following the success of the Project’s first year, we are delighted that from January 2025 we will have an additional Band 7 role joining the team already in place focussed on supporting children and young people with SLCN through clinical review, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of a Targeted training programme for staff and parents. We would welcome applicants with suitable Band 6 experience on a Band 6/7 run-through.
The successful candidate will work in mainly secondary mainstream schools across Barnet although there is some flexibility to also work in primary schools to support children entering mainstream reception classes with special and complex needs that may include autism, learning difficulties and sensory differences. The secondary school role is related to reviewing and updating EHCPs as well as designing and delivering Targeted support for parents and staff, (Gascoigne et al, 2013).
1. Working closely with Barnet Education’s Specialist Inclusion Service to train and support the implementation of Speech and Language Therapy advice and strategies into the mainstream schools core offer.
2. To maintain a clinical caseload of children and young people with EHCPs in mainstream schools, who have special and complex needs that may include autism, learning difficulties and sensory impairments.
3. To be responsible for the assessment of young people in Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 with a range of speech, language and communication needs and the provision of advice for them, their families and the staff working them.
4. To provide training and support for new Additionally Resourced Provisions in mainstream schools and establish targeted training programs for all ARPs across Barnet
5. To review support for YP in their post 16 settings
6. To develop effective and evidence-based intervention.
7. To work as an autonomous practitioner within a supportive team and be innovative in the development of new training offers to schools to meet speech, language and communication needs.
The post holder will work in the multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment including working with occupational therapists, physiotherapists, specialist teachers, social workers, therapy assistants, educational psychologists, paediatricians, and other professionals.
The post holder will be involved in developing and delivering training for school staff and parents.
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Whittington Health have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.
YOU WILL BE EXPECTED TO:
- Take appropriate action to identify and manage risk and to maintain safety of users, staff and others in accordance with relevant regulations, policies and guidelines
- Make sure you are trained and competent in the relevant policies and procedures which apply to the management of staff and other resources and abide by these policies; seeking advice as necessary from senior management and specialist staff as
- Communicate effectively with staff and maintain productive working relationships amongst your colleagues
- Delegate appropriate responsibility to staff in order to ensure optimum and effective service delivery and decision making, whilst retaining overall accountability and responsibility for outcomes.
Clinical Skills
Responsibilities:
- To work in a collaborative manner with Barnet Education’s Specialist Inclusion Service and other agencies to train parents and school staff to support the implementation of Speech and Language Therapy advice and strategies into the mainstream schools.
- To manage a specific caseload under the umbrella of universal, targeted or specialist intervention and be responsible for organising and prioritising a varied workload in line with the agreed Trust Priorities, policies and procedures.
- To carry out and record comprehensive assessments, using standardised assessments where clinically appropriate and possible.
- To initiate and follow through training, treatment plans and provision of services, which will foster independence and/or optimise levels of functioning, and holistic needs.
- To have working knowledge and ability to operate relevant IT systems, spreadsheets, Microsoft Word and outlook email.
- To liaise with other therapy teams, disciplines and non-statutory organisations to ensure optimum intervention outcomes.
- Offer expert support and advice to parents/carers in relation to therapy intervention and management of disability at home, school and in the local community.
- Accept responsibility for clients while under the care of therapy staff, safeguarding both the welfare of clients and staff
- Contribute to and participate in in-service training programmes, professional talks, lectures and working
- At all times to maintain high standards of confidentiality with regard to clients and their families
- To participate as a member of the team and to share information with other team members.
- To liaise, plan, coordinate with, and refer to other professional staff and agencies as appropriate to provide and integrated service to the children and their families.
- Adhere to RCSLT Code of Ethics and Professional Code.
Carry out designated duties, which may be required from time to time relating to particular needs of the service.
To manage information and act as a source of Therapy discipline related to information by;
- Ensuring RIO data for your case load and other data is available in a timely
- Recording all client data is maintained as per trust and HCPC
- Writing to a legible and literate standard in English
- Providing relevant data to commissioning groups relating to trust wide therapy services.
- Contributing to quality report, including
- Employees of the Trust will be required to promote and support the mission and vision of the service for which they are responsible and:
- At all times provide a caring service and to treat those with whom they come in contact in a courteous and respectful
- Carry out their duties and responsibilities in a manner which ensures client safety
- Demonstrate their commitment by their regular attendance and efficient completion of all tasks allocated to them
- Comply with the Trust’s No Smoking Policy
- Carry out their duties and responsibilities in compliance with Health and safety policy and statutory regulations
- Adhere to Equal Opportunities policy throughout the course of their employment
Leadership
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
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London HA8 0AD, United Kingdom