Job summary
This is an exciting and rare opportunity to work as a Band 7 in Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust's well respected Adult Learning Disability Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) service. This is an ideal opportunity if you are wanting to develop your staff management and leadership skills alongside your highly specialist clinical skills. If you have significant experience in the field of Adult Learning Disability, including specialist dysphagia skills, we would welcome your application. The current post holder will be available to provide some remote advise and support in the successful candidates first few months.
Speech and Language Therapists play a valued role within each of the Borough's multi-disciplinary community learning disability teams by leading or contributing to a number of clinical pathways. Therapists receive referrals on behalf of/from Adults with Learning Disabilities living across a variety of community settings in their local borough.
We meet monthly as a Directorate SaLT Team for CPD sessions, which you may be involved in leading. If you have a particular clinical speciality or interest, you will be supported to further develop your knowledge and skills in this area. Therapists also contribute to some Trust wide projects.
This post is advertised as 37.5 hours, but consideration will be given to applicants who would prefer less hours.
Main duties of the job
- You would be working as the most senior Speech and Language Therapist in Greenwich's Integrated Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) with clinical support from the Trust's Professional Lead for ALD/MH Speech and Language Therapy and line management support from the CLDT Manager.
- You will be clinically supervising and managing Band 6 Speech and Language Therapists and a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapy Co-worker.
- You will oversee SaLT student placements in the Greenwich team and working with colleagues to provide learning opportunities for all the SaLT students in the Directorate.
- You may take the lead for service wide development projects and events
About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
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To lead, plan and develop the Greenwich Learning Disability Speech and Language Therapy Service in conjunction with the Professional Lead/Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and the services other B7 Clinical Lead SaLTs;
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To operate as a Senior/Clinical Lead within the multi-agency/multi-disciplinary Learning Disability Team;
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To deliver high quality, Specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities and their carers;
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To deputise for the Professional Lead SaLT and represent Oxleas SaLT at meetings and events as required.
Please see detailed job description and person specification
Job description
Job responsibilities
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To lead, plan and develop the Greenwich Learning Disability Speech and Language Therapy Service in conjunction with the Professional Lead/Senior Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and the services other B7 Clinical Lead SaLTs;
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To operate as a Senior/Clinical Lead within the multi-agency/multi-disciplinary Learning Disability Team;
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To deliver high quality, Specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities and their carers;
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To deputise for the Professional Lead SaLT and represent Oxleas SaLT at meetings and events as required.
Please see detailed job description and person specification
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- RCSLT and HSCP registration
- Evidence of ongoing specialist CPD
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Minimum 4 years post graduate experience
- At least 2 years in Specialist SaLT role within ALD services
- Experience of supervising/managing staff
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter agency working
- Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development
- Knowledge of National Policies and Procedures relevant to the client group
Desirable
- Experience of leading a team
Clinical Skills
Essential
- In depth knowledge of specialist clinical area - communication
- In depth knowledge of specialist clinical area - dysphagia
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- RCSLT and HSCP registration
- Evidence of ongoing specialist CPD
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Minimum 4 years post graduate experience
- At least 2 years in Specialist SaLT role within ALD services
- Experience of supervising/managing staff
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter agency working
- Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development
- Knowledge of National Policies and Procedures relevant to the client group
Desirable
- Experience of leading a team
Clinical Skills
Essential
- In depth knowledge of specialist clinical area - communication
- In depth knowledge of specialist clinical area - dysphagia
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Greenwich Community Learning Disability Team The Woolwich Centre 2nd Floor
35 Wellington Street
Woolwich
SE18 6HQ
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
