Band 6 Children's Speech & Language Therapist - 12 Months Fixed Term

Job overview

Children's Speech & Language Therapist - Fixed Term for 12 months

Band 6 - £45,953 - £54,254 Inc HCAS per annum pro rata

Full time and part time hours available

Due to an ever-increasing demand for our services, Bromley Healthcare's Children's SLT Service is continuing to expand our fantastic and supportive team.

We can offer:

• In-service training and the opportunity to apply for external courses
• Regular whole-team CPD meetings and small clinical supervision groups
• Regular line management as well as ad-hoc support from colleagues
• Access to clinical specialists for specialist opinions and support
• Opportunities for career progression
• Admin support from our Care Co-ordination Centre
• Flexible working
• Opportunities for developing leadership skills (e.g. line-management)

Interviews to be held week commencing 14th Sep (subject to change)

Main duties of the job

• We are currently developing a Universal, Targeted Specialist model in mainstream schools, delivering EHCP intervention in mainstream schools, as well as expanding our buy-in service in mainstream schools, special schools and provisions.

Day-to-day, you will provide assessment and therapy services to a mixed paediatric caseload with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), as well as report writing and opportunities for training parents/carers and those working with children with SLCN. Special school/provision work would involve working with children with a variety of severe, additional and complex needs, such as Autism Spectrum Disorder, Learning Difficulties, Developmental Language Disorder and Speech Disorders. We always ask for your preferences of where you would like to work any time we are re-timetabling.

You will be part of a dynamic, committed team of staff delivering high-quality services to the population of Bromley. We believe in innovation and encourage staff to work in new and effective ways.

Bromley Healthcare is an established social enterprise. As a shareholder you would have greater involvement and an opportunity to influence key decisions.

We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and give examples in your application/supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical- Patient/Client Care

• To develop and provide universal, targeted and specialist speech and language therapy services to patients with speech , language and communication needs
• To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment, leading to decisions about intervention/treatment.
• To communicate complex condition related information, from assessment to patients/clients, carers, families and members of the multi disciplinary team/other professions.
• To maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of patients/clients and their carers, in particular when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of he patient/client’s difficulties and implications of the same.
• To negotiate and work closely with patients/clients, carers, families, and other professionals, agreeing decision- making and prioritisation relevant to the patient/client’s management, devising agreed care plans based on best practice, seeking advice from manager/supervisor for more complex cases.
• To initiate and provide a variety of treatment options according to patients needs, including the use of interpreters as appropriate.
• To use forms of alternative and augmentative communication e.g. signing, symbols, speech synthesisers as indicated from assessment to maximise the client’s communication.
• To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues, aiming to achieve effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
• To adapt practice to meet individual patient/ client circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic and gender differences.
• To form productive relationships with clients who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties.

Applicant requirements

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.