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The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for five consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
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Job overview
The Barking and Dagenham Speech and Language Therapy team in North East London Foundation Trust (NEFLT) recently had a Business Case approved. This is a really exciting opportunity for us to continue to grow and develop as a team and provide an innovative and effective service to the children/young people and families that we work with. We have filled most of these posts and are now looking for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to help lead our Complex Needs and Dysphagia Pathway.
The role will entail a Complex needs and Dysphagia split depending on service demands.
You will join a supportive team environment and be provided with robust personal development opportunities.
Main duties of the job
·Co-Lead on the provision of Complex Needs and Dysphagia services for community paediatrics in Barking and Dagenham. The role is a Dysphagia and Complex needs split depending on service demand and need.
·Work closely with clients, carers, families and professionals to raise awareness, knowledge and skills related to the range of strategies that improve feeding outcomes across settings
·Be able to further develop your interests and skills in an area/ areas of interest and expertise
·Contribute to both speech and language therapy and multi-disciplinary team working to ensure co-ordinated service provision
·Lead a small team of therapists and assistants working in your Pathway.
·To provide supervision of colleagues and peer support
·Deliver comprehensive formal and informal assessment and make differential diagnosis on the basis of assessment findings
·Develop evidence based intervention programmes, adapt and facilitate therapy according to client centred needs
·Provide highly specialist knowledge, advice, training and teaching to parents/carers, education staff, multidisciplinary team members and other colleagues.
·Be involved in the Service Development of the SALT team
Working for our organisation
Our Values 2025 - 2030
Working with our colleagues, patients and carers we have co-produced three new values that we aim to embed within our culture here at NELFT.
They are:
We are kind.
We are respectful.
We work together with our communities.
These three values help us to strive to provide the best care by the best people.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15%of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,714 and a maximum payment of £5,941 - per annum, pro rata for part time).
Use of AI
Please see attached document regarding acceptable use of AI
during the recruitment process.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points-based system. When calculating the basic salary for sponsorship, HCAS (High-Cost Area Supplement) is not included to ensure fairness and consistency within our Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at North East London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer to this when completing your application.
Please get in touch if you think you could bring something to the role and are interested in joining our team (even if you don't meet all of the role requirements!)
We will consider a suitable developing band 6 to band 7 candidate for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
2. Achieved Level C in Dysphagia Competency Framework
Desirable criteria
3. Achieved Level D in Dysphagia Competency Framework
Experience
Essential criteria
4. At least 3 years experience working in paediatrics with clients who have a range of speech, language and communication needs
5. At least 2 year working in paediatrics with clients who have feeding difficulties
Desirable criteria
6. Previous NHS experience
7. 4+ years of dysphagia experience
Skills
Essential criteria
8. Excellent written and verbal presentation skills
9. Administering assessments, analysing assessment results and setting appropriate goals
10. Delivering evidence-based intervention programmes
11. Experience of working closely within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
12. Experience of working in a transdisciplinary model
Knowledge
Essential criteria
13. Knowledge of NELFT Trust Values
14. Some knowledge of Specialist Pathway and associated assessments and interventions
Desirable criteria
15. Robust knowledge of Specialist Pathway and associated assessments and interventions
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
16. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
17. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
18. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
19. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.