Fixed Term/Secondment
This is a unique opportunity for a Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT) to work with young people with SEND in an Further Education College and adults with Learning Disabilities accessing a Community Learning Disability Team. You will work alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines in both settings and be supported by B7 SaLT Clinical Leads. You will have a diverse caseload providing both communication and dysphagia assessment and intervention.
The Directorate SaLT service is well respected for being innovative, evidence based and person centred. The service is led by a Consultant SaLT.
Key Task and Responsibilities
To manage own caseload of students/clients with Learning Disabilities and other Neurodiversity/SEND and with communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties
To line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant and Specialist Support Workers as directed by Clinical Lead.
To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities/Neurodiversity (SEND) in partnership with college teaching staff and their families/carers;
To act as part of the multi-disciplinary Learning Disability teams and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.
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

To induct, train, review work performance and clinically supervise/appraise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant, Specialist Support Workers and students as identified
To provide mentoring and support to newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist (Band 5) in order to enable post holder to complete The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Competency Framework
To contribute to the development of Speech and Language Therapy Service policies and procedures
To contribute to LD Service development through relevant meetings and working groups
To plan and deliver training courses