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About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Speech & Language Therapist - Redbridge Community
Accepting applications until: 23-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 23-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- The Grove Child Development Centre
- Address
- Grove Road
- Town
- Chadwell Heath
- Postcode
- RM6 4XH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Speech and language therapy
- Interview date
- 06/08/2024
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. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Would you like to work in a dynamic, ethnically diverse, NHS community Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy team who prioritise training and supervision?
Due to internal promotion, our Speech and Language Therapy Team situated in the London Borough of Redbridge have an exciting opportunity for a Developing Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join us on a full-time basis to work in our paediatric early intervention, complex needs and mainstream school assessment team. We are a well-established service serving a diverse London community. This post will ideally suit an established Band 5 looking for a new challenge or a developing speech and language therapist ready to diversify in their career.
Working as part of the team you will provide a service for children aged 0-16 presenting with a range of speech, language and communication needs within our child development centre and community clinics and schools.
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· To provide a comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy Service to clients referred with complex needs, social communication needs and speech and language disorders in a range of settings such as schools, community clinics and the child development centre to include assessment, diagnoses and treatment.
Candidates will need to demonstrate the following requirements:
· A recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent and relevant professional registration
· Developing skills in terms of assessment and therapy for children and young people with speech langauge and communication needs and an interest in early intervention and social communication.
· Outstanding interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member.
· Willingness to develop in the supervision of junior colleagues and students
Candidates will need to demonstrate the following requirements:
· A recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent and relevant professional registration
· Developing skills in terms of assessment and therapy for children and young people with speech langauge and communication needs and an interest in early intervention and social communication.
· Outstanding interpersonal skills, and the ability to work as an effective multi-disciplinary team member.
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436) pro rata for part time staff.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols.
· To design and develop evidence-based treatment and management programmes to be implemented within the multi-disciplinary teams available, and within the child’s family.
· To contribute to innovative practices in speech and language development by using research, evidence-based practice, literature and peer review.
· To maintain a high level of concentration in all aspects of patient care at all times. In particular, to monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of communication adapting and facilitating treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems communication aids according to perceived clients needs including cultural and linguistic differences.
· To develop and maintain the skills and knowledge required of a Speech and Language Therapist working in early intervention principles including appropriate assessments, treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems and communication aids.
· To make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment evidence providing advice when appropriate.
· To adapt and facilitate treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems/ communication aids according to perceived client’s needs.
· To maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of clients/carers when imparting complex /distressing information regarding the nature of the client’s difficulties and the impact on individuals and their families.
· To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers, families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
· To work closely with clients, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the patient/client management.
· To provide patients and relatives with information and education thus ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
· To demonstrate skills in motivating clients and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
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. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent and professional registration
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of formal and informal assessments and therapeutic interventions
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level working with clients who have a range of speech, language and communication needs
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Anya Clarke
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Speech and language therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07590616393
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