Job summary
Are you looking for a Band 5 post in a friendly, supportive, and diverse team? We'd love for you to join us! We have a full-time position available but would also consider part time hours or a term time only contract. Get in touch to find out about our flexible working options.
What we can offer you:
- Lots of support - group clinical supervision, 1:1 line management, Band 6 buddy, ad hoc informal office support and monthly clinical sharing sessions
- The benefits of a large team - we well-resourced with assessments, intervention programmes and training packages that we share and adapt
- You will have a clear timetable for your days and would work in a maximum of 4 schools across the week
- Rewarding clinical work in an interesting and busy east London borough
- Easy travel to your allocated schools by public transport, cycling or walking
- Proximity to green spaces like Victoria Park, canals and riverside areas, and our area includes Canary Wharf, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch
- Flexibility to book your holidays across the year (or we can also offer term time only contracts if this is what you'd like to do)
- Office base at Mile End Hospital with great transport links (Central, District, and Elizabeth Lines, DLR, overground trains, lots of bus routes and easy access from train stations like Stratford and Liverpool Street)
- Access to short term staff accommodation to help with relocation to London
- Inner London weighting (enhanced pay rates)
Main duties of the job
As a speech and language therapist working in mainstream schools you will support children and young people with varied speech, language and communication needs to reach their potential. You will have a small allocation of schools that you will visit weekly. You will provide specialist assessments, a range of specialist and targeted interventions, and offer training, support and advice to school staff and parents. You will support children with developmental language disorder, autism, speech disorders, complex needs, and other communication difficulties. You will provide a service that considers the needs of children and families from a range of ethnic, linguistic, and neurodiverse backgrounds. You will have access to regular support, clinical supervision and learning opportunities.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical/Professional
- Plan and organise assessment and therapy for children accepted on to the caseload
- Provide support at specialist, targeted and universal levels, as appropriate
- Discuss findings, progress and concerns with parents, teachers, and other professionals
- Provide advice, support and training to parents, teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals
- To prioritise the caseload within a particular school
- To have an effective professional relationship with key professionals, this to include discussions around prioritisation, workload demands, and any other issues as required
- To plan collaboratively with school staff
- To use highly developed auditory skills (hearing precisely the way a child speaks and uses speech sounds) and perceptual skills (observing the childs whole communication behaviour, including non-verbal aspects) to provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with communication needs.
- To provide written information for parents, professionals and young people that is accessible, understood, and useful
- To provide written information for Education, Health and Care Plans with guidance
- To provide verbal information to parents and professionals in person or over the phone, which may include providing information when parents are upset, needing to use simple language, or using an interpreter.
- To considers the needs of children and families from a range of ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic, and neurodiverse backgrounds.
- To demonstrate understanding of how assessments, approaches and therapy are influenced by the multicultural and multilingual backgrounds of those we work with
- Conduct assessments and therapy supported by bilingual assistants and/or interpreters
- Maintain up to date clinical skills and knowledge
- Maintain up to date knowledge in areas such as safeguarding and SEN procedures
- To reflect on own clinical practice and professional relationships, to discuss these areas during line management and clinical supervision in order to seek support and advice from senior colleagues
- To use clinical outcome measures and evidence-based practice
- Monitor effectiveness of programmes or targeted level support implemented by others (eg teaching assistants)
- Maintain up to date and accurate case notes on service database (EMIS system)
- To share information in line with data protection guidelines, ensure patient notes and data are stored securely, ensure confidentiality
- Assume responsibility for the safety and security of equipment and materials in the office base and while in the community
Education and Professional Development
- To actively participate in appraisal process, including identifying areas of personal and professional development
- To activity participate in line management and group supervision, bringing clinical cases and professional issues to discuss and reflect upon
- To develop and present training to other professionals and parents/carers
- To explain the role of speech and language therapy to visitors, students, professionals, and parents/carers.
Service Development
- To comment on proposed service and/or policy developments as appropriate.
- To participate in team meetings and clinical discussions as appropriate
- Participates in relevant projects, evaluations, clinical audits and research as required by the Lead SLT or the head of service
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical/Professional
- Plan and organise assessment and therapy for children accepted on to the caseload
- Provide support at specialist, targeted and universal levels, as appropriate
- Discuss findings, progress and concerns with parents, teachers, and other professionals
- Provide advice, support and training to parents, teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals
- To prioritise the caseload within a particular school
- To have an effective professional relationship with key professionals, this to include discussions around prioritisation, workload demands, and any other issues as required
- To plan collaboratively with school staff
- To use highly developed auditory skills (hearing precisely the way a child speaks and uses speech sounds) and perceptual skills (observing the childs whole communication behaviour, including non-verbal aspects) to provide assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with communication needs.
- To provide written information for parents, professionals and young people that is accessible, understood, and useful
- To provide written information for Education, Health and Care Plans with guidance
- To provide verbal information to parents and professionals in person or over the phone, which may include providing information when parents are upset, needing to use simple language, or using an interpreter.
- To considers the needs of children and families from a range of ethnic, linguistic, socioeconomic, and neurodiverse backgrounds.
- To demonstrate understanding of how assessments, approaches and therapy are influenced by the multicultural and multilingual backgrounds of those we work with
- Conduct assessments and therapy supported by bilingual assistants and/or interpreters
- Maintain up to date clinical skills and knowledge
- Maintain up to date knowledge in areas such as safeguarding and SEN procedures
- To reflect on own clinical practice and professional relationships, to discuss these areas during line management and clinical supervision in order to seek support and advice from senior colleagues
- To use clinical outcome measures and evidence-based practice
- Monitor effectiveness of programmes or targeted level support implemented by others (eg teaching assistants)
- Maintain up to date and accurate case notes on service database (EMIS system)
- To share information in line with data protection guidelines, ensure patient notes and data are stored securely, ensure confidentiality
- Assume responsibility for the safety and security of equipment and materials in the office base and while in the community
Education and Professional Development
- To actively participate in appraisal process, including identifying areas of personal and professional development
- To activity participate in line management and group supervision, bringing clinical cases and professional issues to discuss and reflect upon
- To develop and present training to other professionals and parents/carers
- To explain the role of speech and language therapy to visitors, students, professionals, and parents/carers.
Service Development
- To comment on proposed service and/or policy developments as appropriate.
- To participate in team meetings and clinical discussions as appropriate
- Participates in relevant projects, evaluations, clinical audits and research as required by the Lead SLT or the head of service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of HCPC
- Member of RCSLT
- To have undergraduate experience in: otheories, assessment and therapy techniques / approaches for children with communication disorders oimplications for delays / disorders within an educational setting
Desirable
- To have undergraduate experience in: ospecial educational issues for client groups
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a range of children's communication disorders in community clinics and educational establishments at an undergraduate level.
- Experience of working with children's communication disorders in an undergraduate level.
- Experience of ensuring health and safety standards are followed
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of professionals to provide direct and indirect intervention for the client group.
Desirable
- Experience of working with school aged children.
- Some experience of working with bilingual families in deprived socio-economic inner-city areas
- Experience of providing training to education and health staff and parents and carers
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of HCPC
- Member of RCSLT
- To have undergraduate experience in: otheories, assessment and therapy techniques / approaches for children with communication disorders oimplications for delays / disorders within an educational setting
Desirable
- To have undergraduate experience in: ospecial educational issues for client groups
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a range of children's communication disorders in community clinics and educational establishments at an undergraduate level.
- Experience of working with children's communication disorders in an undergraduate level.
- Experience of ensuring health and safety standards are followed
- Experience of working collaboratively with a range of professionals to provide direct and indirect intervention for the client group.
Desirable
- Experience of working with school aged children.
- Some experience of working with bilingual families in deprived socio-economic inner-city areas
- Experience of providing training to education and health staff and parents and carers
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).
