Job summary
We are looking for a friendly, enthusiastic, and creative speech and language therapist to join our team!
We are seeking a speech and language therapist to join our Under 5s Speech and Language Therapy team within Barts Health NHS Trust. The successful applicant will work in community clinics, children and family centres, and various venues in Tower Hamlets.
This is an exciting time for our service as it is developing to better meet the needs of the community. You will be involved in universal, targeted, and specialist levels of support. You will be working with parents and children under five years of age (up to the end of Reception) in health and community venues. Our children have a broad range of speech, language, and communication needs, and you will be involved in offering a range of different interventions. You will lead aspects of our services for children with language needs or social communication differences. The service as a whole works within the Care Aims framework and seeks to enable children to communicate more effectively and get the most out of home and school life. The team is a supportive and friendly one where your enthusiasm, empathy, and creativity will be welcomed.
We provide group clinical supervision, individual line management, a programme of in-house training and support, along with ad hoc support from experienced colleagues who will share your office base.
Main duties of the job
The post holder is an autonomous practitioner, providing assessment, diagnosis, prognosis and a variety of intervention programmes at a highly specialist level.
The post holder provides clinical support and supervises junior speech and language therapists and / or bilingual speech and language therapy (SLT) co-workers involved in providing a service to preschool / Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) children with language needs or social communication differences (SCD). S/He coordinates the delivery of the service in liaison with the lead SLTs.
The service is in development to provide a graduated offer of universal, targeted, and specialist support. The post holder will be required to lead on aspects at any of these levels. They may be asked to work in the language stream, the SCD stream, or both.
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
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and The Health and Care Professions Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience of organising and ensuring care of equipment and resources
- Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more setting
Desirable
- Experience of supervision / management of staff
- Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
- Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
- Experience of working with children and / or young people with social communication disorders and ASD
- Experience of working in the community clinic setting
- Experience in the organization and presentation of workshops, courses, or other training packages
- Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to the post
- Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a speech and language therapy or multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with a range of cultural and religious practices in the community
- Clinical experience of working with bilingual families
- Experience of providing universal and targeted level support
Knowledge
Essential
- Applied knowledge of issues relating to the SEN Code of Practice
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for a child
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group(s)
- Knowledge of a range of interventions and well-developed applied knowledge of more specialized intervention techniques relevant to the client group(s)
- Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals
- Excellent awareness of standards of record-keeping
Desirable
- Working knowledge of the Care Aims Model
- Up-to-date knowledge of the theory and practice relating to ASD
- Excellent awareness of issues of multilingual and multicultural communities relating to speech and language therapy
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Knowledge of Signalong sign system
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and The Health and Care Professions Council
Experience
Essential
- Experience of organising and ensuring care of equipment and resources
- Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more setting
Desirable
- Experience of supervision / management of staff
- Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
- Experience of working in deprived socio-economic, inner-city areas
- Experience of working with children and / or young people with social communication disorders and ASD
- Experience of working in the community clinic setting
- Experience in the organization and presentation of workshops, courses, or other training packages
- Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to the post
- Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a speech and language therapy or multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working with a range of cultural and religious practices in the community
- Clinical experience of working with bilingual families
- Experience of providing universal and targeted level support
Knowledge
Essential
- Applied knowledge of issues relating to the SEN Code of Practice
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for a child
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group(s)
- Knowledge of a range of interventions and well-developed applied knowledge of more specialized intervention techniques relevant to the client group(s)
- Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals
- Excellent awareness of standards of record-keeping
Desirable
- Working knowledge of the Care Aims Model
- Up-to-date knowledge of the theory and practice relating to ASD
- Excellent awareness of issues of multilingual and multicultural communities relating to speech and language therapy
- Awareness of clinical governance
- Knowledge of Signalong sign system
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).
