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306 North London NHS Foundation Trust

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North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) was created on 1 November 2024. We employ approximately 6,000 staff who serve a diverse population over five the London Boroughs with a combined population of 1.8 million people.

We are rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, with many of our practice areas judged to be ‘Outstanding’.

Our Trust provides high-quality mental health services within hospital and community settings across Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, and Islington. Our wide range of services include specialist services such as those for children and young people, prison and forensic services, eating disorders services and drug and alcohol recovery.

We employ a diverse workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive anchor employer. We work closely with our local communities to recruit from different groups, welcoming applications from people who reflect the richness of our communities and populations we serve.

We are proud to support the UK Armed forces community, including members of the Reserve Forces. We also provide apprenticeship and care leaver employment opportunities.

We welcome applications from all groups including Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, disabled people (whether their disability is visible or not) and people who are LGBTQ+. We have several active staff networks including Disability, LGBTQ+, Race Equality and Cultural Heritage (REACH), Women’s staff networks and many more to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

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Address: Trust Headquarters St Pancras Hospital; 4 St Pancras Way; London; NW1 0PE
Contact Number: 020 3317 3500

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Swyddi Gwefan

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Cyf: 306-BEH-1339-A ID y swydd wag: 5816172

Speech and Language Therapist

Closed for applications on: 24-Tach-2023 00:00

Statws y swydd wag: Closed

Closed for applications on: 24-Tach-2023 00:00

Lleoliad

Gwefan: Barnet, Enfield and Haringey (Main location to be confirmed)
Tref: London
Cod post: N15 3th
Major / Minor Region: Llundain

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Contract: Parhaol
Oriau: Llawnamser - 37.5 awr yr wythnos

Cyflog

Cyflog: £40,701 - £48,054 Per annum, inclusive of Outer London HCAS
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Gradd: (Band 6)

Arbenigedd

Prif leoliad: Speech and Language Therapist

Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:

Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do

We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.

The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.

Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

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Clinical Responsibilities:

Provision of written clinical reports and care
Seeking support on the management of more complex cases
To provide advice and programs to others, nursery staff and family hub/children center staff, regarding the management and care of children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and manage clinical risk within defined caseload.
To develop the ability to monitor and reflect on auditory, visual, and kinesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
To recommend and implement alternative/augmentative communication programs and equipment necessary to meet individual
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers/clinical supervisor and seek support as
To develop the ability to target training (formal and informal) appropriately to the needs of course participants, in particular parents, family centre and nursery schools’ staff, and to develop the ability to reflect on and evaluate training provided.
To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies.
To gather client related activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such

Communication

To communicate complex patient related information effectively to ensure collaborative working with multidisciplinary team members across health, education and social services and the voluntary sector. To work with nursery staff, family hub and children’s center staff to ensure the delivery of a well- coordinated care.
To share information with others, observing confidentiality and data protection guidelines and having due regard for local guidance on sharing information with colleagues in education, social services, and voluntary sector.
To communicate complex condition related information (both verbally and in the written form) to parents/carers, and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions. This includes child specific information as well as training packages to parents, teachers, and other professionals around the management of speech, language, and communication needs.
To have due regard for the cultural and linguistic differences of children/families concerned. This may include working through an interpreter.
To work closely with children, carers, and families, involving them in decision making, demonstrating, and ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist (i.e., hearing loss, communication difficulties, English as an additional language and learning difficulties).
To employ excellent communication skills such as persuasion, motivation and explanations to encourage/reassure clients and carers to undertake treatment programs.
To develop negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of
To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible and report to senior staff as appropriate.
To form productive relationships with others in particular parents/carers who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties.
To provide clinical reports as per departmental
To provide written advice for statutory assessment of special educational

Patient/Customer Care (if applicable) (both direct and indirect)

See above.

To maintain sensitivity daily to the emotional needs of children and their carers, particularly when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the child’s disability and implications of the same on the child’s social emotional and communication development. This involves recognizing those parents/carers experiencing grief, loss and anger which may result in breakdown of communication/ conflict.
To develop the ability to manage young with challenging behaviours including the application of appropriate management strategies.
To deal with child protection concerns promptly and sensitively according to departmental/trust
To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines, and frequent interruptions.
To recognize potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs. and seek advice and support to

People (HR) Management

To manage own time and prioritize workload with minimal support from a senior
To supervise the work of
To participate in student
To explain the role of speech and language therapists to other colleagues in Health education and social care as well students and volunteers.

Information Management

To follow guidance on record keeping including maintaining case notes and data on RiO in a contemporaneous manner.

Policy and Service Development

To adhere to service, directorate and trust plans and
Contribute ideas for creating policies and working
To comment on proposed service/policy developments – particularly in area of working in
To participate in project work aimed at achieving team objectives in particular projects within the schools’ team, contributing to working groups of SLTs, project work with colleagues from education in relevant schools and multi-disciplinary project groups involving PTs and OTs.
To collect data for clinical audit/research projects relating to specific areas of intervention/management of school aged children.
To participate in interagency/multidisciplinary team building

Resource Management

To monitor resource levels in designated base and request new equipment and resources where
To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained – including equipment loaned to children.

Administrative

Familiarity with computer systems to include Microsoft word, Excel, Outlook and the
Training will be provided in use of the RiO
To ensure a high standard of record keeping, including up to date risk assessments, note keeping, report writing and outcome measure completion.

Effort, Mental and Environment

Clinic work and working in children centers, family hubs and nurseries.
To visit families in their own home adhering to the department’s lone worker
To have due regard for infection control and health and safety guidelines to deal appropriately with unpleasant conditions related to client contact which arise: for example, exposure to body fluids, childhood infectious diseases /conditions, encountered daily.
To develop appropriate strategies to manage aggressive behaviour of both CYP and others.
To have due regard for your own personal safety and that of children/carers, to have regard to moving and handling regulations, restraining policies and ensure the safe positioning of self and others.

Training and Education

To work as an autonomous practitioner being responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities and maintain a portfolio, which reflects personal development. To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in provision of SLT to school age children with special educational needs and disability.
To access appraisal within an Individual Performance Review framework ensuring that the objectives set reflect the Service and Trust plans.
To attend relevant training courses, meetings, special interest groups in order to maintain skills and knowledge required of a therapist working in the field of Special needs/disability and schools and to maintain up to date HPC and RCSLT registration.
To demonstrate knowledge of and adhere to RCSLT Professional and Clinical and National and Local Clinical Guidelines.
To develop a working knowledge and application of relevant legal frameworks, policy and procedures including:
- Safeguarding Children and Children’s bill
- National Service framework for Children
- Special Educational Need, Disability discrimination act and SEN tribunals
- Foundation stage and National curriculum policy and
- Obtaining consent from children and young
Relevant NICE guidelines relating to young children.
To develop a working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance and their application to professional practice.
The post holder must be aware of the responsibilities placed upon them under the Health and Safety Act 1974 to ensure that agreed procedures are carried out and that a safe working environment is maintained for patients, visitors and employees.
To attend all mandatory training as identified in the trusts mandatory training

References will be required to cover your last 3 years of employment/training. One has to be from your current or most recent employer and the others from your previous employer. The references should be from persons with management responsibility or HR.

If you have been unemployed for a period of four years or more, please give the details of your last employer and one character referee of your choice (not members of your family). If more applicable, references will be requested from your teacher or head of faculty. Please ensure you provide full contact details.

Vacancies that are advertised as Fixed Term Contracts will also be available as secondment opportunities for substantive internal staff.

Please be aware that your documents eg. Passport/NI Card, will be electronically scanned using Home Office accredited Verification System.

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts, we will close vacancies before the stated closing date once the first 50 applications are received. Therefore, please apply as soon as possible.

All non-medical posts with the Trust are subject to a probationary period of six months, during which time you will be required to demonstrate to the Trust’s satisfaction, your suitability for the position in which you will be employed.

Should you not hear from us within three working weeks of the closing date for this post, then regretfully in this instance, you have not been shortlisted.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at improving efficiencies within the NHS both to make costs savings for NHS organisations but also to save you time when your employment transfers.

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EDUCATION & QUALIFICATIONS

Meini prawf hanfodol

• Recognized speech and language therapy degree or equivalent. • Registration with the Health Professions Council for License to Practice • Registered member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Meini prawf dymunol

• Attendance at post graduate training courses appropriate to area. applied for 0-5 and pre-school children

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

Meini prawf hanfodol

• Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with pre-school children • Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or a Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Secondary school level. • A knowledge of SEN and national documents providing support and guidance to schools on supporting children with SEN • Ability to relate clinical theory to clinical practice • Experience of different intervention methods for children of preschool age • Knowledge and experience of a range of methods of assessment appropriate for school age children

SKILLS & ABILITIES

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• Confident and experienced in delivering training. • Able to construct clear care. plans differentiating appropriate intervention types from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment. • Demonstrates the importance of gaining families’ view of their strengths and needs and supporting them to be active in the goal setting process. • Ability to write reports using accessible language and demonstrating clinical reasoning. • Able to organize, plan and prioritize own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate. appropriate strategies for caseload management.

Meini prawf dymunol

•Experience of working with young children •Specialist training in VIG

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Meini prawf hanfodol

• Good communication and interpersonal skills • Proven ability to work as part of a team. • Demonstrates empathy with clients, carers, and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS

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• Frequent and intense use of highly developed auditory discrimination, perceptual and well-developed concentration skills for the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of clients • Able to make own effective travel arrangements. • Flexible approach and openness to innovation