Speech and Language Therapy Assistant

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

Come and join our brilliant Bexley Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy team. We have a newly commissioned position working mostly within the Special School team:

To provide support and assistance to therapists working with children in the London Borough of Bexley referred to the Special School SLT team with a focus on those children attending Shenstone School.
To carry out specific therapy and communication development programmes with children and young people on a 1:1 basis and in small groups at Shenstone School.
To carry out specialised techniques and procedures under the direction of a Speech and Language Therapist.
To set up and deliver face to face/virtual therapy support and training packages working with the Speech and Language Therapist.
To support parents/carers to enable children to fulfil their developmental potential.
To assist with administration duties as required by the school and service including electronic case records, paper records, typing reports, therapy programmes, preparing and making therapy resources, photocopying, sending appointments, filing and data collection.
To prepare and clear therapy spaces as required.

Main duties of the job

To implement individual and group interventions as recommended by the Speech and Language Therapists, making modifications using own initiative as necessary to suit child's needs and environment.

To decide on appropriate activities to meet the aims of individual or group interventions. To modify and use supports as necessary for the child or group.

To record activity within sessions in case notes, written and electronic.

To provide advice to others regarding the intervention plan of children within your boundaries of competence.

To contribute to discussion about the effectiveness of provision by using outcome measures.

To contribute to reports and programme planning taking into account child strengths and needs.

To adapt practice to meet individual child and education circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences and mode of communication including signs and symbols.

To ensure that child and/or their families views are communicated to the therapist/education colleagues for consideration in future management plans.

To participate in intensive therapy courses as required.

To contribute to development and delivery of face to face/virtual training and therapy approaches as appropriate.

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

Date posted

08 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£29,460 to £31,909 a year pa inc pro rata

Contract

Fixed term

Duration

2 years

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

277-6274598-CYP

Job locations

Erith District Hospital

Park Crescent

Erith

DA8 3EE

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the uploaded job description and person specification attached to this advert for more information.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the uploaded job description and person specification attached to this advert for more information.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Courses/workshops in working with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent qualifications
Courses/Workshops in working with young children who have speech, language, communication difficulties including social communication/ASD.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with children with a range of communication and/or developmental difficulties, including children who require AAC.
Experience of creating communication books/systems and confident in using appropriate software to do this.
Relevant experience of working with children aged 0 to 18 years and their families (may not have worked over entire age range).

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal communications skills
Excellent written communication skills
Able to prioritise and plan delegated work from a variety of sources, meet deadlines and perform effectively under pressure

Desirable

Experience of training other professionals

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Courses/workshops in working with Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
5 GCSEs A-C including Maths and English or equivalent qualifications
Courses/Workshops in working with young children who have speech, language, communication difficulties including social communication/ASD.

Experience

Essential

Experience of working with children with a range of communication and/or developmental difficulties, including children who require AAC.
Experience of creating communication books/systems and confident in using appropriate software to do this.
Relevant experience of working with children aged 0 to 18 years and their families (may not have worked over entire age range).

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal communications skills
Excellent written communication skills
Able to prioritise and plan delegated work from a variety of sources, meet deadlines and perform effectively under pressure

Desirable

Experience of training other professionals

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).

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