Job summary
Come and join our award winning innovative, creative, forward thinking and supportive childrens therapy team. If you are interested in deafness and have a child centred/ child led therapy approach this may be the role for you.
The post holder will work across a range of ages and settings with babies, children and young people with a range of types and degrees of deafness, age range 0-19 years. You will join a well-established community integrated therapy team, where you will be supported by a very experienced specialist in deafness alongside experienced speech and language therapists, Occupational therapists and physio therapists.
The integrated therapy team has a person centred, evidence based, and participation focused approach to support for children, young people and families. You will be joining a well-established multi-disciplinary team for deaf CYP in Tower Hamlets, working particularly closely with teachers of the deaf.
Experience of using sign in your work is particularly valuable. We also have close links with several cochlear implant centres. You will have opportunity to work with children with both hearing aids and cochlear implants in this role. You will also be providing support to children who will often have additional speech and language needs alongside deafness, so experience of a wide range of assessment and therapy approaches for all types of communication needs is particularly valuable to this role.
Main duties of the job
To be the Speech and Language Therapist responsible for managing different designated caseloads of children with communication delays / disorders within the Deafness Team (aged 0-19years). The children on the caseloads have communication difficulties arising from a hearing loss that may be with or without the presence of other difficulties, including learning, health and / or emotional and behavioural problems.
The post-holder is responsible for managing his/her own designated caseloads within both teams. The Post-holder is required to offer a number of specialist packages of care including direct 1:1 and group therapy, indirect therapy and written therapy programmes. The Post-holder must have an understanding of the Special Educational Needs Code of Practice and provide specialist reports, including advice for the Statutory Special Educational Needs procedure. S/he liaises with school staff, parents / carers and professionals in voluntary and other organisations as necessary. The Post-holder attends and / or provides reports and support for inter-agency case conferences about specific clients.
The post-holder provides both formal and informal training and support for parents / carers, school staff and other professionals from Health, Education, Social Services and voluntary agencies as appropriate.
About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Health Professionals Council.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for child.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the deaf client group(s).
- Knowledge and of a range of interventions and well developed applied knowledge of more specialised intervention techniques relevant to deafness.
- Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals.
- Excellent awareness of issues of multi-lingual and multi-cultural communities relating to speech and language therapy.
- Excellent awareness of standards of record keeping.
- British Sign Language signature level 1 (or willingness to train)
Desirable
- Awareness of clinical governance.
- British Sign Language Signature level 2
- A sound understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and sign language development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more settings.
- Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a Speech and Language therapy or multi-disciplinary team in an undergraduate setting.
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community clinic setting.
- Experience in the organisation and presentation of workshops, courses or other training packages.
- Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to post.
- Experience of working with cultural and religious practices in the community
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and the Health Professionals Council.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of child development, and the broad range of communication difficulties and implications of difficulties for child.
- Theoretical and practical knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the deaf client group(s).
- Knowledge and of a range of interventions and well developed applied knowledge of more specialised intervention techniques relevant to deafness.
- Well-developed awareness of the issues around training parents and professionals.
- Excellent awareness of issues of multi-lingual and multi-cultural communities relating to speech and language therapy.
- Excellent awareness of standards of record keeping.
- British Sign Language signature level 1 (or willingness to train)
Desirable
- Awareness of clinical governance.
- British Sign Language Signature level 2
- A sound understanding and knowledge of the deaf community and sign language development.
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric communication disorders within one or more settings.
- Experience of working collaboratively with others as part of a Speech and Language therapy or multi-disciplinary team in an undergraduate setting.
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community clinic setting.
- Experience in the organisation and presentation of workshops, courses or other training packages.
- Evidence of attending specific and relevant training courses and further developing clinical knowledge in areas related to post.
- Experience of working with cultural and religious practices in the community
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
