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Speech and Language Therapist - Early Years Service
Band 5
Main area Speech and Language Therapy Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week Job ref 824-INNER-7130826
Site Parkview Centre for Health and Wellbeing Town London Salary £35,964 - £43,780 per annum, inclusive of HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 06/05/2025 12:00 Interview date 13/05/2025
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
Early Years Service - Hammersmith and Fulham
Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Come and join the CLCH SLT Early Years team!
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an NQP or experienced Band Speech and Language Therapist to join our Speech and Language Therapy Early Years Service at Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust.
We are looking for a speech and language therapist with enthusiasm, excellent interpersonal and team-working skills who are seeking to develop and broaden their clinical experience of working with preschool children in a highly skilled, dynamic and supportive team.
Our Early Years team works in close partnership with local stakeholders to deliver SLCN support across the Boroughs of Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster, and Kensington and Chelsea. Our Speech and Language Therapy Service supports prevention and early intervention targeted support in addition to comprehensive assessment and evidence-based therapy packages for pre-school children with a range of SLCN.
Main duties of the job
Join us if you want to:
* Continue to develop your clinical skills working with a varied preschool caseload, carrying out assessments, identifying needs, developing, implementing and evaluating specialist programmes of care.
* Work with early years staff and families to embed communication supportive environments and run evidence based targeted interventions.
* Support the development of the universal and targeted service to children and families with a range of SLC needs.
* Be part of a service which has an active diversity and inclusion ethos where EDI is established as part of our Business as Usual when thinking about our service users and our staff.
* Contribute to the quality improvement work of the wider CLCH SLT early years service.
* Work in innovative, motivated teams in a supportive and progressive environment.
* Have access to excellent supervision and support, a range of training and shadowing opportunities, to ensure strong clinical performance and development opportunities.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ well-being, 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
* 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
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent and Licence to Practice – Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
* Health Care Professionals Council Licence to Practise
* Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT
Experience
* Relevant experience at undergraduate/postgraduate level working with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
* Experience working collaboratively with parents/carers and other health/education professionals.
* Experience Training others
* Working with multi-cultural client groups
* Experience of supporting children, families and schools in line with the Children and Families Act 2014 including contribution to statutory assessments (Education Health and Care Plan Needs Assessments), contribution to the annual review process and delivery of SALT provision as specified in Education health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
Skills
* Knowledge of child development and its application to speech and language therapy
* Knowledge of appropriate range of assessments and interventions for children with Speech, Language and Communication needs and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits to individual children
* Able to demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidence-based practice
* Religious, Cultural and Linguistic issues impacting upon caseload management
* Able to identify appropriate goals and formulate care plans
* Awareness of standards of record keeping
* Understanding of safeguarding
* Able to use own initiative to organise and manage own caseload
* Knowledge of Education Practice and Policy including the Children and Families Act 2014 and National Curriculum
* Awareness of national policies and procedures (relevant to preschool aged children)
* Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
* Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
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.
Application numbers
This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your applications on time to avoid disappointment.
Name Tashia Pillay Job title Early Years SLT Locality Lead (H&F) Email address tpillay@nhs.net Telephone number 07393 798469 Additional information
Sarah Mezey - Joint Early Years Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead (Hammersmith and Fulham)
Email: sarah.mezey@nhs.net
Tel: 07584 183553
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