Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: Speech and Language Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 395-EC068-25
Site: Corringham IMC, Town: Stanford Le Hope
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 p.a. pro rata (plus 5% HCAS)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients.
Job overview
Our speech and language therapy team are developing our work in schools and early years as part of the balanced system approach and have full time, part time or job-share band 6 posts available for enthusiastic, innovative therapists who would love to become part of our well-established team. We will support you to develop specialist skills, particularly in dysfluency and also in autism, complex needs and deafness, and to work in schools as a link therapist alongside our specialist therapists.
We pride ourselves on providing a supportive environment through regular clinical supervision and team meetings. Our highly experienced, friendly team are committed to delivering high quality care. Career development will be encouraged with appropriate training and skill growth opportunities offered where possible.
Main duties of the job
This post will be based in Thurrock and working across Brentwood and Basildon as part of a team providing a service for children presenting with communication disorders.
* As a successful candidate, you will have a recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree and HCPC registration.
* You will assess, diagnose and provide therapy interventions to children with developmental language disorders and specific speech disorders.
* You will develop education colleagues to support communication development by providing training as a link therapist.
* You will organise, plan and prioritise your own workload, and that of assistant staff, and demonstrate the ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.
* You will have excellent interpersonal skills – including observation, listening and empathy skills, to enable you to work to support the individual needs of the schools, staff and pupils.
Working for our organisation
We offer:
* A full induction and then regular supervision with a named therapist.
* Integrated children’s therapies and professional team meetings.
* Training opportunities through CPD groups and external courses.
* Support from Admin and Assistant teams.
* Agile & flexible working.
* A days’ birthday leave & 1/2 day Christmas leave in addition to your annual leave.
* Staff benefits including; cycle to work scheme, car salary sacrifice scheme, and staff discounts.
* Resources and support for your own health, emotion and wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Devise and deliver appropriate specialist intervention/care plans/enhanced models of SLT for children with delays and disorders of communication, speech and language and provide suitable and timely support.
2. Independently manage and make differential diagnoses for a caseload of children with delays and disorders of communication, speech and language.
3. Provide specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents, carers, students and SLT team in all aspects of management of speech, language and communication delays and disorders in children.
4. Work as part of the integrated therapies multi-disciplinary team ensuring the delivery of joined up care plans.
5. Contribute to multidisciplinary support for clients with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
6. Provide oral and written feedback, advice and training to parents/family members, carers and members of the multidisciplinary team regarding communication needs and strategies to facilitate development.
7. Develop and deliver training and support packages.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent.
* HCPC Licence to Practice.
* Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy.
Experience
* Experience working with clients who have a range of speech, language and communication needs in community and mainstream settings.
* Experience of working in a multi-agency and/or multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience/knowledge of early intervention approaches and low tech AAC.
* Experience providing training to education and health colleagues and parents and families.
Knowledge
* Able to construct clear care plans, including assessment for differential diagnosis, providing therapy from a range of options based on analysis of information from assessment using evidence base.
* Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessments for the differential diagnosis of developmental language disorder and specific speech sound disorders.
* Post qualification training and experience in dysfluency or autism or deafness.
Skills
* Effective communication/interpersonal skills (written, verbal and listening).
* Demonstrated ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
* Able to formulate care plans identifying functional goals and outcomes in multidisciplinary discussion.
* Able to demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidence-based practice.
Other
* To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.
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