Overview
Bank Speech & Language Assistant Band 4
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 direct support to children receiving specialist support under the Oxleas SLT service with oversight from an SLT. You will also support with projects to help with service improvements and work efficiencies. Please note Bank work is on an as and when required basis.
Main duties of the job
* To provide support and assistance to therapists working with children in the London Borough of Bexley referred to the mainstream schools (JCT) or Resource provisions attached to mainstream schools.
* To carry out specific therapy and communication development programmes with children and young people on a 1:1 basis and in small groups at mainstream and/or resource provisions attached to mainstream schools.
* To carry out specialised techniques and procedures under the direction of a Speech and Language Therapist
* To set up and deliver face to face/virtual therapy support and training packages working with the Speech and Language Therapist
* To support parents/carers to enable children to fulfil their developmental potential.
* To assist with administration duties as required by the school and service including electronic case records, paper records, typing reports, therapy programmes, preparing and making therapy resources, photocopying, sending appointments, filing and data collection.
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 4
Salary: £32,199 a year pro rata pa inc
Contract: Bank
Working pattern: Flexible working
Reference number: 277-Bank S&L Assistant
Job locations: Erith District Hospital, Erith, DA8 3EE
Job responsibilities
* To implement individual and group interventions as recommended by the Speech and Language Therapists, making modifications using own initiative as necessary to suit childs needs and environment.
* To decide on appropriate activities to meet the aims of individual or group interventions. To modify and use supports as necessary for the child or group.
* To record activity within sessions in case notes, written and electronic.
* To provide advice to others regarding the intervention plan of children within your boundaries of competence
* To contribute to discussion about the effectiveness of provision by using outcome measures
* To contribute to reports and programme planning taking into account child strengths and needs
* To adapt practice to meet individual child and education circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences and mode of communication including signs and symbols
* To ensure that child and/or their families views are communicated to the therapist/education colleagues for consideration in future management plans
* To participate in intensive therapy courses as required
* To contribute to development and delivery of face to face/virtual training and therapy approaches as appropriate
* To work within a management plan guided by a Speech and Language Therapist, with input from the school senior leadership team, making modifications using own initiative to suit clients needs and circumstances
* To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct
* To work under the supervision of a therapist accessing appraisal within a Personal and Professional Development Review framework at pre-determined intervals
* To demonstrate an understanding of child development and apply to daily care of children
* To demonstrate/develop knowledge of specific therapeutic techniques and develop skills to assist/carry out these techniques under the supervision of a therapist
* To identify personal/professional development evidenced by Personal Development Plan developed within an appraisal framework
* To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain skills and knowledge required of a Therapy Assistant working in the field of children with speech, language and communication needs
* To participate in the development and delivery of training (formal and informal) to others with support from the Therapist
* To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in the field of children with disabilities and additional needs
* To attend relevant courses and meetings
Person Specification
Skills Essential
* Fluent spoken and written English skills
* Experience of working with school aged children with SLCN, learning needs and/or Autism
* Evidence of attendance of further training/short courses in relation to SLCN
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: oxleas.nhs.uk
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