Speech & Language Therapist (NHS AfC: Band 6) - Paediatric Speech & Language Therapy - Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust – Margate, Kent
The Children’s Therapies Team is an integrated therapies team providing Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Specialist Nurse Advisors, and Care Co-ordinators to children 0-19 years within KCHFT.
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Band 6 post on a permanent basis primarily within our School Years teams. We will consider both full-time and part-time options, and flexible working would be considered depending on service requirements.
We provide support to primary, secondary, and special schools across the East locality. KCHFT works within a Balanced System framework including the link therapist model. You will provide advice, coaching, assessment, and intervention to children and young people with a range of language and communication needs including AAC, social communication, language, speech, fluency, and selective mutism.
There will be opportunities to work in venues and schools alongside other staff in the team. We are looking for a therapist/therapists who have experience of supporting AAC in both mainstream and specialist environments and who may have experience of/interest in dysphagia.
The successful applicant(s) will join our Children’s Therapies East Kent Team and will be supported by Band 7 Clinical and Team Leads within the team.
We currently offer a hybrid work pattern for staff with face-to-face sessions offered from schools and bases within the community and options to work some sessions remotely from home, where appropriate.
Responsibilities include:
1. Work to support local schools to meet the needs of children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) using the Balanced System model.
2. Assess, plan, and implement SLT interventions that support children with a range of speech language and complex communication needs.
3. Deliver evidence-based SLT interventions for children that support them in achieving their identified health outcomes.
4. Develop integrated care plans in partnership with the child, young person, and/or family, recommending and supporting interventions that are appropriate at a universal, targeted, and specialist level.
5. Participate in clinical supervision and work as part of an integrated team with Therapy Assistants, OTs, PTs, SLTs, Care Co-ordinators, and Specialist Nurse Advisors, offering support to colleagues as appropriate to knowledge and skills.
6. Actively work as a member of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency teams to provide high-quality care to children and young people in line with our care pathways.
Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values: compassionate, aspirational, responsive, and excellent.
We know a commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves on being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
As a flexible working-friendly organization, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients, and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that suits us both.
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At KCHFT, we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way, we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.
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