We are excited to offer the following Band 6 permanent opportunities within our school age Speech and Language Therapy Team. Sessions will be available in Special schools and within our Mainstream Schools team supporting children and young people with education Health and Care plans..

We would welcome applications from newly qualified staff as well as staff with some experience and therefore would consider offering this post as a Band 6 or a Band 5/6 run through.

We would love you to come and join us.

This is what our team say about working for the Enfield School age Speech and Language Team:

'Supportive and welcoming team'

'Friendly, stable team. Open to innovation'

'Supportive management and supervision structure. I feel very well supported and always listened to.

'The management team care about your well-being and career development is at the heart of their priorities.

'Nurturing team where you feel like family!

'Excellent clinical supervision, very friendly supportive team. Excellent peer supervision, excellent safeguarding supervision. You will be valued, respected for your skills in every way.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will have a mixed post, supported and guided by Senior staff.

Main duties of the job

You will have sessions in some of the following areas:

Supporting children and young people with Education Health and Care plans who have a range of speech, language and communication needs, attending Enfield mainstream primary and secondary schools and in specialist provisions (Additional Resource Provision or special school).

Supporting children and young people and Education staff within special schools to develop facilitative communication environments and contribute to developing the curriculum to focus on communication everyday throughout the day.

Within the Health Pathways - Dysfluency/Speech Sound Pathways.

The post holder will participate in CPD activities and will contribute to departmental meetings, clinical audit and projects.

They will deliver training, initially with a more senior colleague, to other professionals and parents/carers on all aspects of speech, language and communication.

He/she will participate in the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and supervise the work of LSAs/TAs.

Newly qualified therapists have the opportunity to be involved in a preceptorship programme.

About us

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the candidates pack that is attached to this job role for a detailed description of the roles and responsibilities.

In addition if you would like to discuss any further aspect of the role please contactjudy.sleat@nhs.net oreleanor.leeser@nhs.netto arrange a time to discuss. Alternatively if you would like to talk to one of our team about their experiences of working in our team then we would be happy to arrange this.

Person Specification

Essential and desirable

Essential

• oRecognised speech and language therapy degree or equivalent oRegistration with the Health Professions Council for Licence to Practice oRegistered member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
• oConfident and experienced in delivering training. oAble to construct clear care plans differentiating appropriate intervention types from a range of options, based on analysis of information from assessment. oDemonstrates the importance of gaining CYP's view of their strengths and needs and supporting them to be active in the goal setting process. oAbility to write reports using accessible language and demonstrating clinical reasoning. oAble to organise, plan and prioritise own workload. Demonstrates ability to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management.
• oExperience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Primary school level oExperience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist or a Speech and Language Therapy student in an Education setting with children who have speech language and communication needs at Secondary school level oA knowledge of SEN and national documents providing support and guidance to schools on supporting children with SEN oAbility to relate clinical theory to clinical practice oExperience of different intervention methods for children of school age oKnowledge and experience of a range of methods of assessment appropriate for school age children
• oGood communication and interpersonal skills oProven ability to work as part of a team. oDemonstrates empathy with clients, carers and families often where barriers to understanding exist ensuring that effective communication is achieved to persuade and motivate participation in therapeutic activities
• oDemonstrable ability to meet Trust values oFrequent and intense use of highly developed auditory discrimination, perceptual and well developed concentration skills for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of clients oAble to make own effective travel arrangements

Desirable

• Car Driver/owner

Employer details

Employer name

North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

Address

Cedar House

St Michaels Site

Enfield

EN2 0JB

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393-NMUH-1544