Job summary
Band 8a Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist: Schools Service
Paediatric Community Services- Newham, East London Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced, innovative, creative speech and language therapist? Would you like to bring your skills to help lead our developing Schools Speech and Language Therapy Service and support continuous improvement?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist to lead our large and expanding Schools Service in the London Borough of Newham.
The Schools Service offers specialist assessment and intervention for children and young people aged 0-19 across a range of school settings including primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, resource provisions and special schools. The post includes leadership of the traded services to schools that sits alongside our core ICB funded services.
The post-holder will be responsible for the Clinical Leadership of a team of award winning, dedicated speech therapy staff. This will include both the operational management and clinical leadership of the service. There will be opportunity for service improvement and development work within the service and across the partnership with schools and local authority services, including our youth justice projects and work streams within our all age autism strategy.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will have relevant experience of working with children and families within schools, working with other professionals and of delivering service change and improvement.
The team is based at the child development centre where staff work closely with multidisciplinary partners as part of a wider AHP clinical leads team supported by the Head of Children's Therapies.
The post holder will provide operational leadership for a high quality expert specialist speech and language therapy service to children and young people in a range of educational settings including mainstream primary and secondary schools, Resource provision units, special schools, and colleges. This will include managing the different funded service options including the traded service with schools.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership in the speech and language therapy Schools service ensuring effective clinical supervision, pathways of support, and will provide specialist second opinions to more junior colleagues.
The post holder will take a clinical lead on the development of objectives and projects relating to these specialist areas and support peers in their implementation.
The post holder will participate in local networks and partnership meetings and oversee service improvement work within the service.
The post holder will provide line management duties, ensuring smooth operation on a day to day basis as well as conducting clinical supervision and performance reviews.
About us
In return we can offer you:
- An amazing working environment, with a warm, welcoming and supportive team of SLTs and colleagues who bring experiences from all over the world.
- 1:1 monthly supervision, appraisal and CPD
- Leadership Development
- Protected service development time and regular team away days
- Opportunity to supervise and develop staff
- Monthly clinical leads meetings
- On-going clinical skills development, MDT working
- Opportunity to lead service improvement
- Involvement in quality improvement projects
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the operational delivery of the Schools service and traded services for children aged 0-18 years.
- To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to CYP in a variety of community settings.
- To work within the multi-disciplinary, working with colleagues to plan and implement pathways for school age CYP
- To work with other Clinical Leads and highly specialist SLTs to develop policy and procedure across care groups
- To take a lead role in working parties, clinical governance and development of service provision to ensure effectiveness
- To provide supervision, advice, support, second opinions and appraisal to more junior speech and language therapists, assistants and volunteers and ensure that Trust and SLT policies are adhered to by those staff. (This may include the use of co-working, case review, in-service training and other supervisory techniques)
- To lead in recruitment, induction and supervision of SLT staff.
- To deliver core and specialist training relating to specialist areas to other speech and language therapists and to others e.g. health services and local authority staff
- To ensure that the service takes account of the needs of clients from a wide variety of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds
- To quality assure the service and make improvements to pathways and service delivery as required.
- To provide effective line management to staff within the service including safeguarding supervision, appraisals and management of staff absences.
For a more details job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact details please see below.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To be responsible for the operational delivery of the Schools service and traded services for children aged 0-18 years.
- To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to CYP in a variety of community settings.
- To work within the multi-disciplinary, working with colleagues to plan and implement pathways for school age CYP
- To work with other Clinical Leads and highly specialist SLTs to develop policy and procedure across care groups
- To take a lead role in working parties, clinical governance and development of service provision to ensure effectiveness
- To provide supervision, advice, support, second opinions and appraisal to more junior speech and language therapists, assistants and volunteers and ensure that Trust and SLT policies are adhered to by those staff. (This may include the use of co-working, case review, in-service training and other supervisory techniques)
- To lead in recruitment, induction and supervision of SLT staff.
- To deliver core and specialist training relating to specialist areas to other speech and language therapists and to others e.g. health services and local authority staff
- To ensure that the service takes account of the needs of clients from a wide variety of ethnic and linguistic backgrounds
- To quality assure the service and make improvements to pathways and service delivery as required.
- To provide effective line management to staff within the service including safeguarding supervision, appraisals and management of staff absences.
For a more details job description and person specification please see attached JD & PS.
For contact details please see below.
Person Specification
Education / Qualification
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- Health Care Professionals Council
- Evidence of successful completion of post graduate courses relevant to schools service and speech language communication needs
- Advanced training e.g. management, recruitment, supervision, appraisal, service improvement
Desirable
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant experience at post graduate level, including in depth knowledge and experience of working with children with a variety of speech language and communication needs.
- Experience of delivering community based services.
- Experience of supervising less experienced staff
- Experience of service development/ service improvement
- Well established experience of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
- Experience of delivering training for a variety of agencies
Person Specification
Education / Qualification
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- Health Care Professionals Council
- Evidence of successful completion of post graduate courses relevant to schools service and speech language communication needs
- Advanced training e.g. management, recruitment, supervision, appraisal, service improvement
Desirable
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
Experience
Essential
- Significant relevant experience at post graduate level, including in depth knowledge and experience of working with children with a variety of speech language and communication needs.
- Experience of delivering community based services.
- Experience of supervising less experienced staff
- Experience of service development/ service improvement
- Well established experience of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
- Experience of delivering training for a variety of agencies
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).
