Job Title: Lead Speech & Language Therapist - Early Years Community Clinic
Are you looking for an opportunity to develop your leadership skills within an early years/community clinic service? Join Bexley Children's Speech & Language Therapy service as an experienced and self-motivated highly specialist speech and language therapist.
1. Provide leadership to the early years community clinic team, ensuring continued clinical service development.
2. Demonstrate and provide highly specialist knowledge in clinical specialisms, underpinned by 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 the assessment of 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 provide highly specialist supervision to therapists and assistants within the team and other parts of the service.
7. Engage with parents, children, and young people, responding to feedback to develop care pathways and monitor the quality of information provided.
8. Involve children, young people, and families in planning and prioritising their care plans where possible.
9. Take a clinical specialist role in developing local clinical guidelines for children and young people with SLCN.
As part of the role, you will lead a small team, be responsible for day-to-day operational and management activities, and be involved in caseload management, recruitment, service development, audit, training, supervision, and appraisal. The service offers excellent opportunities for clinical skill development through CPD and supports collaboration with health, social care, and education partners.
Oxleas provides a wide range of NHS healthcare services across community and secure settings, including community health care, mental health care, and services for people with learning disabilities. Our multidisciplinary teams work in various settings, including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children's centres, and homes, across the South of England, including London boroughs and Kent.
* Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to patients and their families.
* Our values include: We're Kind, We're Fair, We Listen, We Care.
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