Speech and Language Therapist
- Employer
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Location
- London
- Salary
- £54,320 to £60,981 pro rata per annum inclusive of HCAS
- Closing date
- 20 Oct 2024
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- Profession
- Mental health
- Grade
- Band 7
- Hours
- Part Time
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Band 6 / 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist post
Maternity cover - 12 months Fixed Term Contract
3 days per week 0.6WTE
in Camden SLT Service for Young People (CSYP 11-19s+)
(CSYP work within mainstream secondary schools, colleges, SEMH settings and secondary school Autism Resource Provisions)
Do you love working with young people and working with their parents and education staff? Do you want to learn new skills and gain new experiences? This post would suit an SLT who has a particular interest in assessments, universal provision and SEMH and/or who are wanting to develop their clinical skills and experience.
Join our passionate and innovative speech and language therapy team and share your expertise with Camden young people and the people who support them!
We have an exciting opportunity for a new speech and language therapist to join theCamden Service for Young People (CSYP 11-19s). This is a part time, fixed term Band 6 or Band 7 post. It is suitable for applicants who are currently at Band 6 or 7 level, and for band 6 applicants could be offered as a Band 6-7 run through post, in which you could be supported to move into a Band 7 role by the end of the 12 months.
Main duties of the job
CSYP provide: A 'specialist clinical' offer of assessment, advice and input for young people (YP) who have SLCN, aged 11-19(+), who live or access education/youth services in Camden
A 'Traded services' offer: SLTs may provide universal, targeted and/or specialist input within schools/settings who have Service Level Agreements for a specific number of days a week enabling a highly embedded approach to input, whilst also working within and accessing supervision and support from a wider team of SLTs working with the same age group
A 'Universal' offer of whole school/setting training and capacity building projects including our highly specialist 'Listen-EAR' (Enjoy, Achieve, Respect & Relate) consultative model
A 'centralised training' offer of both bespoke and specific training packages including ELKLAN for school staff, and Cygnet for parents of autistic children
A 'communication groups' offer within summer school holidays, including Year 11 school leavers groups, and a film making course
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are keen to hear from you. If you would like to discuss this post in more detail, and talk through how the role matches your interests / experience, you can contact Laura McLean laura.mclean@nhs.net - 0203 316 1080 or 07557 198991
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
Previous Experience
Essential
Skills and Abilities
Essential
Personal Qualities
Essential
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Finsbury Health Centre
17 Pine Street
London
EC1R 0LP
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
220-WHT-2499-A
Maternity cover - 12 months Fixed Term Contract
3 days per week 0.6WTE
in Camden SLT Service for Young People (CSYP 11-19s+)
(CSYP work within mainstream secondary schools, colleges, SEMH settings and secondary school Autism Resource Provisions)
Do you love working with young people and working with their parents and education staff? Do you want to learn new skills and gain new experiences? This post would suit an SLT who has a particular interest in assessments, universal provision and SEMH and/or who are wanting to develop their clinical skills and experience.
Join our passionate and innovative speech and language therapy team and share your expertise with Camden young people and the people who support them!
We have an exciting opportunity for a new speech and language therapist to join theCamden Service for Young People (CSYP 11-19s). This is a part time, fixed term Band 6 or Band 7 post. It is suitable for applicants who are currently at Band 6 or 7 level, and for band 6 applicants could be offered as a Band 6-7 run through post, in which you could be supported to move into a Band 7 role by the end of the 12 months.
Main duties of the job
CSYP provide: A 'specialist clinical' offer of assessment, advice and input for young people (YP) who have SLCN, aged 11-19(+), who live or access education/youth services in Camden
A 'Traded services' offer: SLTs may provide universal, targeted and/or specialist input within schools/settings who have Service Level Agreements for a specific number of days a week enabling a highly embedded approach to input, whilst also working within and accessing supervision and support from a wider team of SLTs working with the same age group
A 'Universal' offer of whole school/setting training and capacity building projects including our highly specialist 'Listen-EAR' (Enjoy, Achieve, Respect & Relate) consultative model
A 'centralised training' offer of both bespoke and specific training packages including ELKLAN for school staff, and Cygnet for parents of autistic children
A 'communication groups' offer within summer school holidays, including Year 11 school leavers groups, and a film making course
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
We are keen to hear from you. If you would like to discuss this post in more detail, and talk through how the role matches your interests / experience, you can contact Laura McLean laura.mclean@nhs.net - 0203 316 1080 or 07557 198991
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential
- BSc. Speech Pathology or Equivalent (including Dip. CST)
- HCPC licence to practise, and Registered member of RCSLT
- Successful completion of specialist/expert short courses relevant to field e.g. SEMH, trauma, Autism, Selective Mutism
Previous Experience
Essential
- Of working at a specialist level in paediatrics
- Delivering highly specialist training to a range of audiences
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Of a specialist range of assessment tools and procedures to evaluate communication, speech & language skills
- Of approaches to mentoring, advising, supporting and clinically supervising less experienced SLTs and support staff
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexibility
- Ability to reflect on practice
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Finsbury Health Centre
17 Pine Street
London
EC1R 0LP
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
220-WHT-2499-A
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