Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Chalkhill Primary Care Centre
Town: Wembley
Salary: £42,939 - £50,697 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 26/02/2025 23:59
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
Job overview
Brent Mainstream Schools Team
Are you looking to develop and further your skills in Mainstream Schools? Are you interested in working in a diverse and multi-cultural area? Do you want to join a friendly and outgoing team?
We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapists to join the Mainstream Schools Team. Therapists work closely with school staff to support children and young people with a range of speech, language, and communication needs in schools as well as contributing to training initiatives and project work.
Main duties of the job
We provide SLT to children and young people with SEN support and with EHCPs in Brent primary schools, secondary and FE Colleges.
Your role would include:
* The assessment of CYP with a range of speech, language and communication needs including DLD, ASD, speech sound difficulties, and selective mutism.
* Working directly with children in groups and individually, as well as offering advice and strategies to school staff and parents.
* Liaising with parents and other professionals.
* Providing training for your allocated schools.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply.
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support, and development in your career.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person specification
Education/Qualification
* Degree or equivalent and Licence to Practice – Royal College of Speech/Language Therapists.
* Current registered membership of HPC and RCSLT.
Experience
* Working with children with a wide range of speech, language, and communication difficulties – including ASD, DLD, selective mutism, and speech sound disorders.
* Collaborative work with parents and other professionals, especially teachers in a school setting.
* Training others.
* Post-graduate experience of working with children.
* Working in a multi-cultural community.
Skills & Knowledge
* Normal Child Development including Speech and Language, Play, and other milestones.
* Knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for pre-school & school-aged children with speech, language, and communication impairments.
* Knowledge of specific assessments and interventions within specialist area.
* Education Practice and Policy and National Curriculum & Early Years Curriculum.
* Religious, Cultural, and Linguistic issues impacting upon caseload management.
* Principles and models of Adult/Child Interaction.
* Knowledge of national policies and procedures (especially Education Act).
* Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group).
* Knowledge of professional standards of record keeping.
* Holistic view of communication problems in the context of education.
* Knowledge of collaborative models of working in schools.
Key Attributes
* Health cleared by occupational health for the role specified.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification.
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email, so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH, we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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