Advanced Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service are looking for a Band 7 Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to join our large and diverse team as a Clinic Lead in the Early Years Team.

This is an ideal opportunity for a motivated clinician who wants to further develop their skills and experience in clinical and operational leadership and providing supervision and support to therapists and assistants in the team.

Main duties of the job

• Working as part of the Early Years leadership team to coordinate service delivery for the clinic pathway, working with children under 5, and older children and young people who stammer or require support with their speech sounds.
• Providing highly specialist assessment and intervention to children across the borough of Lewisham, including running drop-in clinics and providing nursery visits as needed.
• Involvement in developing and delivering training to parents/carers, Speech and Language Therapists, education staff and a range of professionals.
• Working with colleagues across pathways, on service delivery, audit and quality improvement projects.
• Involvement in EDI workstreams with colleagues from the Therapies team (SLT, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy)
• Providing supervision and support to therapists and assistants in the Early Years team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Accountable to the Head of Children and Young People’s Therapies
• To provide clinical and operational leadership for the Early Years Clinic Pathway in collaboration with Early Years Team Lead.
• To support the Clinic team in developing, testing out and implementing new ways of working including supporting implementation of National Initiatives for Early Years.
• To ensure that the service provided is integrated (within the relevant multi/uni disciplinary care pathways), evidence based and delivered in accordance with care pathways/protocols and responsive to the needs of the local population.
• To independently assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties some of which may be highly complex, and provide second opinions as required.
• To develop, implement and evaluate specialist training packages for parents, carers and education and health staff.
• The post holder will hold a special interest within the broad range of speech, language and communication needs within the caseload.

Key Result Areas:

• To provide clinical and operational leadership for the Early Years pathway in collaboration with the Early Years Team Lead.
• To provide improved patient/client experience.
• To ensure effective and efficient high quality service delivery by the Early Years Team.
• To ensure strong professional development of self and others.