Job responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to support their team, department, and organisation to achieve the Trusts Values in their day-to-day work. The post holder will achieve this by
Providing a comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy service to children presenting with a range of speech, language and communication needs in the borough.
Independently managing a paediatric caseload and delivering integrated therapeutic packages of care
Devising child centred speech, language and communication therapy programmes and care plans for clients
Contributing to multi agency care pathways for children with special educational need
Providing feedback, guidance and training to parents/carers and other professionals regarding language and communication needs and strategies to facilitate childrens development.
Committing to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health, education, and social care professionals
Supporting peers and colleagues by being an effective team member whilst working on own initiative
Working for Whittington Health in Barnet will offer:
- Excellent CPD opportunities;
- Informal networking across the 4 Whittington Boroughs;
- Commitment to excellence in practice;
- Very strong supervision and direct line management;
- Agile working in the community using mobile technology;
- Flexible working hours and arrangements will be considered;
- Shadowing opportunities;
- Service and Trust Induction Packages;
- Specialist advice and second opinions
- Team Meetings
- Appraisals
- Support to develop your own clinical interests
- Team projects co-working with other colleagues.
Key Responsibilities:
Patient care
- To be responsible for clinical delivery of SLT service to a caseload of children with a range of speech, language and communication needs within around the borough of Barnet.
- Complete assessments, write individual programmes, implement groups, provide specialist advice and resources and review outcomes with a functional based focus.
- To work collaboratively with children, families and other professionals to achieve outcomes for individuals, providing support, programmes, ideas, advice and assessment.
- To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures. This requires knowledge of current research and agreed best practice in working in the field of specialism.
- To provide a service considering the needs of clients from a range of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds.
- To liaise with specialist teaching staff, classroom teachers and education support staff to provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy input to curriculum and programme planning.
- To maintain close links with Speech and Language Therapy staff working in Early Years, School Age and Adult Teams within the trust to ensure smooth transition between phases as required.
Clinical Direct
- To provide a comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy service to clients referred with speech, language and communication difficulties community clinics and schools in the borough.
- To deliver appropriate formal and informal assessments for a range of clinical specialisms, including stammering, dyspraxia, cleft palate and speech disorder.
- To make differential diagnosis based on this assessment and communicate complex condition related information from assessment to children, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professionals.
- To always maintain sensitivity to the emotional needs of clients/carers when imparting complex and distressing information regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and the impact of this on individuals and their families.
- Following assessment and differential diagnosis, to design and develop evidence-based treatment and management programmes by working closely with clients, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to client management, and providing the family with sufficient information to ensure meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence and quality of life.
- To deliver programmes devised through a combination of 1:1 therapy, therapy groups, and indirect therapy to be implemented within the multi-disciplinary teams available, and within the childs family.
- To demonstrate skills in motivating clients and/or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
- To work closely with school staff to embed inclusive speech, language and communication practice within the classroom.
- To organise own caseload effectively, prioritising tasks and planning short- and long-term goals together with the children, family and other professionals.
- To impart principles and provide training to establish the use of speech, language and communication enrichment techniques by parents/carers and fellow practitioners.
- To review, adapt and facilitate treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems according to clients needs.
- To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
- To maintain a high level of concentration in all aspects of patient care at all times, in order to monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of communication adaptations, and to facilitate treatment programmes and the use of augmentative communication systems communication aids according to perceived need, with regard to cultural and linguistic differences.
- To initiate referrals to other health professionals, specialist services and agencies.
- To be computer literate and ensure accurate recording of actions, updating patients records whilst maintaining confidentiality at all times.
- Policy/Service Development/Implementation
- To work within the Trust SALT service guidelines for childrens services.
- To contribute to the provision of speech and language therapy packages of care and clinical care pathways.
- To input into service redesign projects.
- To take an active interest in working parties and groups within the Trust to develop and improve on service delivery, protocols and guidelines.
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Whittington Mission, Vision and Goals
We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.
Our missionHelping local people live longer, healthier lives.Our visionProvide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.Our goalsWe have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
- To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
- To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
- To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
- To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
- To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
- To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
Whittington Values
Our values underpin everything we do. Our staff are committed to delivering the following values in everything they do.
Our ICARE values have been created by our staff and are embedded in our appraisal and planning processes and form part of our staff excellence awards.
Probationary period Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
