Job summary
The Children's Integrated Speech and Language Therapy Service for Hackney and the City is a unique collaboration between local health and education agencies. Providing a comprehensive service to the children, young people and families within Hackney and The City.
Verbo (www.verboapp.co.uk) is an award winning online Speech and Language Therapy (and Occupational Therapy) Toolkit. The toolkit provides universal and targeted preventative care for ages 2 through to early adulthood. Our mission is to enhance the communication skills of all children and young people.
This post is a remote, working from home post. If you are local to Hackney you are welcome to use community office spaces available. Within this post there will be requirements for travel:
- Atleast three times a year to a team meeting in London
- Conferences/exhibitions around the UK (these may include overnight stays)
- Management IT equipment
It is also important to note that you will be required to travel to Homerton as part of the recruitment process to show ID documents and possibly and Occupational Health appointment.
Main duties of the job
The sessions will be mainly as part of the Verbo team.
The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of Verbo. This will include:
- Being a link therapist to settings using Verbo. Provide them with online consultative calls and training
- Developing clinical content
- Contributing to ideas and development
- Leading on specific projects
- Working with a multi-professional team, including other SaLTs, a technical team, marketing advisors, videographers, web designers and many more
- Provide support and training to users
- Attend conferences and events
- Liaise and communicate with a range of professionals
About us
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.
We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of "Outstanding" from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.
Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.
We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.
Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.
Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.
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 on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
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 on this page.
The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent (Post-Graduate Diploma or MSc in Speech and Language therapy leading to registration with HCPC)
- Health and Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
- Successful completion of specialist courses relevant to the specialism
- Working knowledge of Verbo
Desirable
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist
Other Requirements
Essential
- oUnderstanding of the Trust values
Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate experience in relevant specialist area
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to SaLT students
- Experience of instigating and managing change
- Experience of using Verbo
Desirable
- Other relevant experience (eg personal experience of children, previous experience of working with children and /or people with other disabilities) oPrevious experience of working with young people in a trauma informed fashion
- Other relevant experience of digital tools and AI
- Other relevant experience in child care or educational settings
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening tact, persuasion and empathy skills
- Well developed negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with children, parents and colleagues
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Able to recognise and seek advice appropriately
- Ability to be a good team member
- Ability to plan alone or in a group for clinical sessions and team work
- Self motivated individual capable to working remotely and independently
- Ability to carry out project work associated with developing and evaluating Verbo.
- Ability to adapt to a range of clinical areas
Desirable
- Speaker of other relevant community language
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge /understanding of confidentiality issues
- Well established understanding of principles of assessment and intervention for bilingual children
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance /audit
- Well established knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- Well established knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- Well established knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent (Post-Graduate Diploma or MSc in Speech and Language therapy leading to registration with HCPC)
- Health and Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
- Successful completion of specialist courses relevant to the specialism
- Working knowledge of Verbo
Desirable
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist
Other Requirements
Essential
- oUnderstanding of the Trust values
Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate experience in relevant specialist area
- Experience of providing clinical supervision to SaLT students
- Experience of instigating and managing change
- Experience of using Verbo
Desirable
- Other relevant experience (eg personal experience of children, previous experience of working with children and /or people with other disabilities) oPrevious experience of working with young people in a trauma informed fashion
- Other relevant experience of digital tools and AI
- Other relevant experience in child care or educational settings
Skills/ Abilities
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening tact, persuasion and empathy skills
- Well developed negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
- Ability to work collaboratively with children, parents and colleagues
- Ability to work to deadlines
- Able to recognise and seek advice appropriately
- Ability to be a good team member
- Ability to plan alone or in a group for clinical sessions and team work
- Self motivated individual capable to working remotely and independently
- Ability to carry out project work associated with developing and evaluating Verbo.
- Ability to adapt to a range of clinical areas
Desirable
- Speaker of other relevant community language
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge /understanding of confidentiality issues
- Well established understanding of principles of assessment and intervention for bilingual children
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance /audit
- Well established knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- Well established knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- Well established knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group.
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).
