Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Stammering
Are you looking for an opportunity to lead the stammering service in Bexley? If so, come & join Bexley Children's SLT Therapy team. You will be an experienced & self-motivated highly specialist SALT who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, with responsibility for delivery of assessment & intervention to stammering clients up to 19 years. As well as supporting a small team of SLT colleagues, you will lead on care pathways, training (both colleagues in the team & education colleagues), provide supervision & support across the SLT service, whilst demonstrating a track record of delivering evidence-based interventions.
We offer both face-to-face & virtual appointments to children & young people who stammer & their families, & would consider applications from colleagues who may prefer a blended working pattern.
The Bexley Children's SALT service is a dynamic & supportive team & we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision & support structures & would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical & management skills & contribute towards operational projects to support service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care & education.
Main duties of the job
For more information and a detailed description of the main duties please refer to the Job Description attached.
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 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 Listen
* We Care
Job responsibilities
* To demonstrate highly specialist assessment and intervention (both 1:1 and group) for stammering clients, underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
* To manage complex and highly specialist caseload independently and plan the workload of others, offering highly specialist support and second opinions to SLT colleagues.
* To make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessment of complex cases.
* To work in partnership with parents/carers, young people and education staff, to support them to develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence with regards to their stammer.
* To meet with parents, children, and young people, taking and responding to feedback to develop care pathways and the quality of child and parent information.
* To take a clinical specialist role in the development of local clinical guidelines informed by evidence for children and young people with stammering and Speech, Language and communication needs (SLCN).
* To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a highly specialist therapist and maintain up to date HCPC and RCSLT registration.
* To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional, National and Local Clinical Guidelines with particular reference to stammering and SLCN.
* To develop and deliver specialist training to parents, young people and professionals in the specialist area.
* To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in the specialist area.
* To provide second opinions/advice to non-specialists and other specialists within the clinical field.
* To demonstrate a sound working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance and their application to professional practice.
* To undertake team members' Supervision and Personal Development Reviews.
* To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines and frequent interruptions.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Health Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
* Recognised Speech & Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
* Evidence of further training/short courses in dysfluency
Experience
* Experience working as a highly specialist speech & language therapist in relevant clinical specialism in the last 18 months
* Experience in supervising/supporting staff
* Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development
Knowledge
* Well established knowledge of evidence-based interventions
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.
£51,883 to £58,544 a year pro rata pa inc
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