Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership skills within an early years/community clinic service? If so, come and join Bexley Children’s Speech & Language Therapy service.
You will be an experienced and self-motivated highly specialist speech and language therapist who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, leading the service for early years and some school-age children with diverse speech, language, and communication needs. You will lead a small team of therapists and assistants and be responsible for day-to-day operational and management activities. Your role will involve caseload management, recruitment, service development, audit, training, supervision, and appraisal.
The Bexley Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service is a dynamic and supportive team that offers many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. We have excellent supervision and support structures, providing an ideal environment to develop clinical and management skills and contribute to operational projects supporting service development. We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care, and education.
If you would like more information about the position, please contact us at 020 30040092 to speak with Jo Copp, Early Years & Community Clinics Co-ordinator.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Provide leadership to the early years community clinic team, ensuring continued clinical service development.
2. Demonstrate and provide highly specialist knowledge in clinical specialism(s) based on current evidence-based practice and evaluate outcomes.
3. Manage complex and highly specialist caseloads independently and plan the workload of others.
4. Make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessing complex cases.
5. Provide highly specialist advice regarding the management and care of children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN).
6. Manage, lead, and supervise therapists and assistants within the team and across the service.
7. Meet with parents, children, and young people, responding to feedback to develop care pathways and monitor the quality of information provided.
8. Ensure children, young people, and families are involved in planning and prioritizing their care plans where possible.
9. Develop local clinical guidelines informed by evidence for children and young people with SLCN.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services in community and secure settings, including community health, learning disability care, mental health, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams serve people of all ages across many settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools, and homes. We operate over 125 sites across the South of England, including London boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best care to our patients and their families, guided by our values: Kind, Fair, Listen, Care.
For more detailed information about the main duties, please refer to the attached Job Description.
This advert closes on Tuesday, 9 September 2025.
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