Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Bank S&L Therapists Band 5/6

The closing date is 24 September 2025

Job summary

Bank Speech & Language Therapists Bands 5/6

Are you looking for a new opportunity, looking out for a new team or career development? If so, join our friendly and innovative team in Bexley where you will find fantastic support and opportunities to develop your career. You will provide assessment and direct intervention to school age children/young people with language disorders, including Developmental Language Disorder, and language disorders associated with biomedical conditions or Autism. This will be to deliver provision to children with EHCPs and without. This post is suitable for someone that has completed their competencies and would like an opportunity to further develop their assessment and/or intervention skills and working within a team.

Please note Bank work is on an as and when required basis and you maybe based across Oxleas sites or in mainstream schools.

Main duties of the job

To provide a clinical and advisory SLT service to mainstream school aged children and youngpeople with a diverse range of speech, language and communication needs. Including thosewith complex needs e.g. biomedical disorders and Autism.

The post holder will provide a specialist service to children and young people with a languagedisorder in a range of settings, however language will be the primary need.

To participate in the development and delivery of training programmes and develop informationfor school staff, parents and carers and colleagues in health and education.

To develop supervision skills with junior therapists, assistants, and students.

To work as part of an integrated team with Speech and Language therapy assistants and SLTcolleagues. To participate in multi-disciplinary work with colleagues in health, education andparents/carers.

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

Details

Date posted

10 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£38,511 to £46,764 a year pro rata pa inc

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

Bank S&L Therapists 5/6

Job locations

Erith District Hospital

Erith

DA8 3EE


Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide an assessment, diagnostic and treatment service for children referred to theschool aged service within the Borough of Bexley.

To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapyinterventions.

To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of languagedisorders, providing second opinions and supervision to other members of the team.

To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of autism and be awareof social, emotional and mental health needs, providing second opinions and supervisionto other members of the team.

To reflect on own clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidenceof sound clinical practice.

To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and developmental needs.

To maintain professional competence through personal development and training.

To beresponsible for maintaining own professional registration and meet HCPC Registrationrequirements maintaining a professional portfolio.

To undertake relevant public health skills training and updates as required.

To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking

advice when appropriate. Written reports / care plans will be completely in a timely

manner to service users and appropriate agencies.

To demonstrate high level of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice andoutcome measures. To be a source of expertise and hold knowledge of best evidence-based practice in a specialist clinical area that will be shared with other team members.

Please see attached JD & PS's for further information

Job description

Job responsibilities

To provide an assessment, diagnostic and treatment service for children referred to theschool aged service within the Borough of Bexley.

To be responsible for the planning, delivery, and evaluation of evidence-based therapyinterventions.

To demonstrate specialist clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of languagedisorders, providing second opinions and supervision to other members of the team.

To demonstrate clinical skills in the assessment and intervention of autism and be awareof social, emotional and mental health needs, providing second opinions and supervisionto other members of the team.

To reflect on own clinical practice identifying strengths and needs and providing evidenceof sound clinical practice.

To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and developmental needs.

To maintain professional competence through personal development and training.

To beresponsible for maintaining own professional registration and meet HCPC Registrationrequirements maintaining a professional portfolio.

To undertake relevant public health skills training and updates as required.

To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, seeking

advice when appropriate. Written reports / care plans will be completely in a timely

manner to service users and appropriate agencies.

To demonstrate high level of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice andoutcome measures. To be a source of expertise and hold knowledge of best evidence-based practice in a specialist clinical area that will be shared with other team members.

Please see attached JD & PS's for further information

Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Speech & Language Degree/HCPC Registration
  • RCSLT Member
  • NQP Competencies completed
  • Fluent spoken and written English skills
  • Evidence of attendance of further training/short courses
Person Specification

Skills

Essential

  • Speech & Language Degree/HCPC Registration
  • RCSLT Member
  • NQP Competencies completed
  • Fluent spoken and written English skills
  • Evidence of attendance of further training/short courses

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.

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.

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

Erith District Hospital

Erith

DA8 3EE


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Erith District Hospital

Erith

DA8 3EE


Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Clare Brightwell

clare.brightwell@nhs.net

Details

Date posted

10 September 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£38,511 to £46,764 a year pro rata pa inc

Contract

Bank

Working pattern

Flexible working

Reference number

Bank S&L Therapists 5/6

Job locations

Erith District Hospital

Erith

DA8 3EE


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