Job summary
Full time Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist (part time / flexible working requests will be considered)
Camden's Speech and Language Therapy Service for Young People (CSYP 11-19s) are looking for a new Highly Specialist Band 7 speech and language therapist who has an interest and relevant experience in working with students who have Social Emotional Mental Health challenges.
We have a large team of speech and language therapists in CSYP who work within:
- Mainstream secondary schools with input at Universal, targeted and specialist levels
- Secondary school Autism Resource base/provisions
- Post-16 Colleges
- Social Communication and Autism Assessment and Diagnostic Services
- Youth Justice Service and Youth Early Help
- Specialist SEMH settings including Pupil Referral Units, Specialist SEMH schools
This role would initially involve working within specialist SEMH settings e.g. SEMH school/ pupil referral unit, as well as involvement in service development, supervision and summer animation/film-making and Year 11 transition groups. There may also be opportunities to move across settings e.g. into Post-16 settings, when working in the CSYP team.
Main duties of the job
CSYP provide: A 'specialist clinical' offer of assessment, advice and input for young people (YP) who have SLCN, aged 11-19(+), who live or access education/youth services in Camden A 'Traded services' offer: SLTs may provide universal, targeted and/or specialist input within schools/settings who have Service Level Agreements for a specific number of days a week enabling a highly embedded approach to input, whilst also working within and accessing supervision and support from a wider team of SLTs working with the same age group A 'Universal' offer of whole school/setting training and capacity building projects including our highly specialist 'Listen-EAR' (Enjoy, Achieve, Respect & Relate) consultative model
A 'centralised training' offer of both bespoke and specific training packages including ELKLAN for school staff, and Cygnet for parents of autistic children A 'communication groups' offer within school holidays, including Year 11 School Leavers groups, working with Afasic for year 6-year 7 transition groups, and withCamden Summer University and an animation tutor to run a film making course for YP who are autistic or who have social communication differences / difficulties.
This post would involve providing assessments, reports, specialist, targeted and universal input within pupil referral units and specialist schools for students who experience SEMH challenges.
About us
Working for your organisation should read: 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are keen to hear from you. If you would like to discuss this post in more detail, and talk through how the role matches your interests / experience, you can contact Laura McLean laura.mclean@nhs.net - 0203 316 1080 or 07557 198991
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are keen to hear from you. If you would like to discuss this post in more detail, and talk through how the role matches your interests / experience, you can contact Laura McLean laura.mclean@nhs.net - 0203 316 1080 or 07557 198991
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Speech Pathology or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise, and Registered member of RCSLT
- Successful completion of specialist/expert short courses relevant to field e.g. SEMH, trauma, Autism, Selective Mutism
Previous Experience
Essential
- Of working at a specialist level in paediatrics
- Delivering highly specialist training to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Relevant experience at a highly specialist level
- Carrying out evidence based research projects
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communicate complex, sensitive information
- Excellent Communication skills
- Skills in delivering presentations and training, including basic adaptations to presentation/training style for a range of audiences
Desirable
- Critically evaluate published research within a specific area of clinical expertise
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexibility
- Ability to reflect on practice
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Of a range of specialist assessment tools and procedures to evaluate communication, speech & language skills
- Of a highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to needs of students with SEMH challenges, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches
- Good understanding of clinical governance principles
Desirable
- Of the key elements of writing an action research protocol/clinical audit
- . Good understanding of clinical governance principles
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Speech Pathology or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise, and Registered member of RCSLT
- Successful completion of specialist/expert short courses relevant to field e.g. SEMH, trauma, Autism, Selective Mutism
Previous Experience
Essential
- Of working at a specialist level in paediatrics
- Delivering highly specialist training to a range of audiences
Desirable
- Relevant experience at a highly specialist level
- Carrying out evidence based research projects
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Communicate complex, sensitive information
- Excellent Communication skills
- Skills in delivering presentations and training, including basic adaptations to presentation/training style for a range of audiences
Desirable
- Critically evaluate published research within a specific area of clinical expertise
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexibility
- Ability to reflect on practice
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Of a range of specialist assessment tools and procedures to evaluate communication, speech & language skills
- Of a highly specialist range of therapeutic interventions relevant to needs of students with SEMH challenges, demonstrating the evidence base for these approaches
- Good understanding of clinical governance principles
Desirable
- Of the key elements of writing an action research protocol/clinical audit
- . Good understanding of clinical governance principles
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
