Speech and Language Therapist

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Site: Parsons Green Health Centre

Town: London

Salary: £35,964 - £43,780 per annum, inclusive of HCAS

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 20/03/:59

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.

Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist
Hammersmith and Fulham SLT Education Team

Are you looking to make a real difference to the lives of children and young people? Come and join the CLCH SLT education team!

We have the opportunity for an NQP or experienced Band 5 therapist to join the Hammersmith and Fulham SLT education team. The post includes working with a varied caseload across schools in the inner London borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. We are looking for someone with enthusiasm, excellent interpersonal and team-working skills, and an interest and experience of working with school-aged children and young people.

1. Working with increasing independence to provide assessment, diagnosis, appropriate intervention and discharge for children within the role.
2. Working closely with children, families and other professionals, providing advice to others regarding the clinical management to support children and young people as relevant to the post.
3. Supporting the delivery of a wide range of school-aged intervention packages in relation to the whole system approach to supporting speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) within designated locality community & school settings.
4. Understanding and meeting professional and legal SEND responsibilities outlined in the Children and Families Act 2014 including contributing to statutory assessments of special educational needs and delivery of Speech and Language Therapy provision as specified in children's Education Health and Care Plans (EHCPs).
5. Maintaining accountability for own professional actions and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice from senior colleagues as appropriate.

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.

Please refer to Job description and personal Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.

• Degree or equivalent and Licence to Practice - Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT.

• Working with children in clinics and/or school based settings.
• Experience Training others.
• Working with multi-cultural client groups.

• Excellent communication skills both verbal, non-verbal and written.
• Working in partnership with other members of the MDT.
• Working in collaboration with children and young people, parents/carers and families.
• Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of children with a broad range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
• Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically.
• Valuing and advocating for all communication styles and preferences.
• Understanding of child development including Speech and Language, Play and other milestones.
• 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.
• Knowledge of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge of principles and models of Adult-Child Interaction.

• IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes.

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.

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.