Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to come and join our well-respected College Therapy Service based at London South East Colleges (LSEC), Bromley Campus -Nido Volans Centre. You will be based full-time at the college and work term-time only. Your role would be as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant but you will offer some support to physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
The Therapy Team comprises of Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT), Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy. Students attending the college's Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) courses have varying levels of learning disability or learning difficulties and additional complexities such as autism, ADHD. Our work here focuses on supporting tutors to differentiate the curriculum and use a variety of strategies to maximise students' learning and engagement.
You will need to have an interest and some experience of supporting young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) to make the most of being at college and to prepare for adulthood. You will need to have good interpersonal, literacy and very good IT skills, be able to work to deadlines and support any training delivered and running therapy groups with over-sight from the therapists.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to support the therapists by carrying out a range of clinical admin tasks such as keeping caseload lists up to date, processing referrals, creating resources, modelling therapy recommendations to tutors and LSAs etc. You will also help with assessments by gathering information, carrying out structured assessments and liaising with college staff. You will help therapists to review student's progress and college staff's adherence to recommended strategies. You will also devise and make visual communication resources and support use of high tech Augmentative and Alternate Communication aids and apps, therefore should be confidant in using technology.
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Assist in the completion of specialist communication assessments with students with learning disabilities and difficulties and class-based observations, in order to identify their communication strengths and needs.
Assist in the delivery of individual and group interventions in order to develop and maximise the communication skills of students with learning disabilities and difficulties and their education staff.
Be involved in specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and care packages.
Carry a small caseload of individuals requiring direct therapy under the direction of a named Speech and Language Therapist.
Assist in supporting staff training.
Identify and develop therapy resources and low-tech communication aids (e.g. communication passports, photo resources, symbol timetables, visual topic boards etc.) as directed by the therapist.
Plan, organise and manage own workload in order to complete tasks in a timely manner.
Use basic word processing skills to create accessible information resources and ability to use specialist software packages to programme communication aids and to create class based symbol resources.
Programme and edit different software packages used in high tech communication voice output devices/iPads
Job description
Job responsibilities
Assist in the completion of specialist communication assessments with students with learning disabilities and difficulties and class-based observations, in order to identify their communication strengths and needs.
Assist in the delivery of individual and group interventions in order to develop and maximise the communication skills of students with learning disabilities and difficulties and their education staff.
Be involved in specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and care packages.
Carry a small caseload of individuals requiring direct therapy under the direction of a named Speech and Language Therapist.
Assist in supporting staff training.
Identify and develop therapy resources and low-tech communication aids (e.g. communication passports, photo resources, symbol timetables, visual topic boards etc.) as directed by the therapist.
Plan, organise and manage own workload in order to complete tasks in a timely manner.
Use basic word processing skills to create accessible information resources and ability to use specialist software packages to programme communication aids and to create class based symbol resources.
Programme and edit different software packages used in high tech communication voice output devices/iPads
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- At least GCSE English pass
- Evidence of further education - NVQ3 (or equivalent) and above
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience with people with communication impairments, ASD, ADHD and special needs.
Desirable
- Previous employment in Adult Learning Disability or Mental Health setting or SEN support in schools.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Good experience of using IT skills eg. Word, Excel and Power Point.
Person Specification
Education/Qualification
Essential
- At least GCSE English pass
- Evidence of further education - NVQ3 (or equivalent) and above
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience with people with communication impairments, ASD, ADHD and special needs.
Desirable
- Previous employment in Adult Learning Disability or Mental Health setting or SEN support in schools.
Skills/Abilities/Knowledge
Essential
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- Good experience of using IT skills eg. Word, Excel and Power Point.
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).
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).
