Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Team Lead

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Job summary

Do you have a passion for supporting children and young people with Autism and/or physical and learning disabilities to meet their full potential? Are you looking for an opportunity to develop both your clinical and leadership skills within a large, dynamic and supportive service? This could be the perfect post for you!

The department offers:

  • An extensive and supportive clinical team with access to Highly Specialist and Principal Therapists within clinical specialisms
  • Excellent CPD opportunities for growth and development tailored to your specific needs.
  • Designated admin and planning time
  • Involvement in innovative research and project work contributing towards service development and best practice.

The team has excellent relationships with the school's senior leadership team which provide exciting opportunities for creativity and innovative practice at both a whole school level and individual child level. In addition, the team are in the fortunate position of working closely with the other multi-disciplinary providers within the school which includes other therapies (physiotherapy, occupational and music therapy), nursing etc.

Main duties of the job

You would be responsible for developing and implementing the strategic direction for service delivery in Willow Dene School.

You would lead a team of therapists to meet the needs of the caseload and deliver on strategic service priorities.

You would be a lead across the whole Speech and Language Therapy team, being a source of support for team members working in Early Years and School Years as well as Special Schools.

You would provide expert specialist management of students with complex communication needs and/or dysphagia. This may include preparing for and attending tribunals.

You would develop and enhance our universal and targeted service to the whole setting, so that quality first teaching benefits all students on role as well as those requiring specialist management.

About us

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
  • We Listen
  • We Care

Details

Date posted

26 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,178 to £55,492 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-5388123-CYP-B

Job locations

Memorial Hospital

Shooter's Hill

Greenwich

SE18 3RG


Job description

Job responsibilities

You would be responsible for leading the team of therapists and assistants delivering communication and dysphagia support to Willow Dene School within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, well supported by the Co-ordinator of Service, and Principal Therapists. Willow Dene School provides for students from nursery through to secondary provision and has recently received an outstanding Ofsted inspection.

This post provides the opportunity to further develop leadership, management and clinical skills though continuing to build on the excellent clinical practice within the team, and also having joint responsibility for supervising and supporting the team of therapists and assistants delivering the service in these settings. In addition the post holder would have specialist clinical responsibility which will be negotiated on appointment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You would be responsible for leading the team of therapists and assistants delivering communication and dysphagia support to Willow Dene School within the Royal Borough of Greenwich, well supported by the Co-ordinator of Service, and Principal Therapists. Willow Dene School provides for students from nursery through to secondary provision and has recently received an outstanding Ofsted inspection.

This post provides the opportunity to further develop leadership, management and clinical skills though continuing to build on the excellent clinical practice within the team, and also having joint responsibility for supervising and supporting the team of therapists and assistants delivering the service in these settings. In addition the post holder would have specialist clinical responsibility which will be negotiated on appointment.

Person Specification

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree or qualification

Essential

  • RCSLT registered
  • HCPC registration
  • Post-graduate paediatric dysphagia training

Desirable

  • Membership of clinical excellence networks
  • Relevant AAC CPD courses
Person Specification

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree or qualification

Essential

  • RCSLT registered
  • HCPC registration
  • Post-graduate paediatric dysphagia training

Desirable

  • Membership of clinical excellence networks
  • Relevant AAC CPD courses

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

Shooter's Hill

Greenwich

SE18 3RG


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Memorial Hospital

Shooter's Hill

Greenwich

SE18 3RG


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Principal Speech and Language Therapist

Sarah Gelli

sarah.gelli@nhs.net

02088368621

Details

Date posted

26 July 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,178 to £55,492 a year pa inc

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

277-5388123-CYP-B

Job locations

Memorial Hospital

Shooter's Hill

Greenwich

SE18 3RG


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