Job overview
Do you want to be part of a friendly and supportive SLT team?
Do you want to be able to offer direct therapy to children in mainstream schools?
Do you want to develop your leadership skills?
0.4 WTE Band 7 role:
We are looking for a passionate speech and language therapist to work in the Hillingdon mainstream schools team supporting children and young people who have a speech, language or communication need.
You will be offering direct therapy for CYP in schools - working closely with school staff.
You will be part of a supportive band 7 team - and take a lead in developing projects and supervising more junior staff.
Have a look on our Hillingdon Talks, Moves and Plays website to find out about our wider service.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to children in mainstream schools who have an identified speech/language/communication need. This role will include primary and secondary schools.
2. To be responsible for providing highly specialist assessment & therapy packages into allocated schools.
3. To train and support school staff & parents, in order for them to implement therapy advice effectively.
4. To support schools with the early identification of children with speech/language/communication needs.
5. To meet regularly with the SENCO to ensure that the needs of the schools are being met.
6. To prioritise the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children at all times
7. To support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators and maintain Target Activity Levels
8. To lead on identified audits and service improvement projects for the team/service
9. To lead on identified clinical working groups for the service
10. To deliver workshops for the wider speech and language therapy team
11. To deliver training workshops for parents and school staff
12. To offer joint consultations to other members of the team
13. To jointly lead on developing the quality of the service provided to schools
14. To be responsible for the performance management of identified team members
15. To formally and informally support team members
16. To support the team leader in the leading and development of the team
17. To deputise for the team leader in the day to day management of the team as requested
Working for our organisation
We can offer you:
18. A buddy who will meet with you every week at first to help you settle in and who you can ask lots of questions
19. Regular supervision meetings with the team leader every 6 weeks, alongside annual appraisal and informal support
20. Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, read articles together and share your experiences
21. Regular meetings with the other band 7 mainstream team SLTs to ensure that the workload is being shared and support given
22. A busy but manageable caseload across a range of schools
23. Opportunities for remote working in school and at home at the end of the day once a week
24. Opportunities to develop your clinical and leadership skills and knowledge through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists/ leaders, membership of a CEN, training courses - clinical and leadership
We are proud to say that the service has:
25. Excellent relationships with schools - 91% of SENCO’s report that they are happy or very happy with the service
26. Good relationships with parents - 92.5% of parents report that they are happy or very happy with the service. A parent representative attends all of the mainstream schools meetings and parent feedback is sought for new developments
27. A strong track record on innovation and service development in order to provide a high quality service to children, schools and families
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
28. To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to children in mainstream schools who have an identified speech/language/communication need. This role will include primary and secondary schools.
29. To be responsible for providing highly specialist assessment & therapy packages into allocated schools.
30. To train and support school staff & parents, in order for them to implement therapy advice effectively.
31. To support schools with the early identification of children with speech/language/communication needs.
32. To meet regularly with the SENCO to ensure that the needs of the schools are being met.
33. To prioritise the Safeguarding of Vulnerable Children at all times
34. To support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators and maintain Target Activity Levels
35. To lead on identified audits and service improvement projects for the team/service
36. To lead on identified clinical working groups for the service
37. To deliver workshops for the wider speech and language therapy team
38. To deliver training workshops for parents and school staff
39. To offer joint consultations to other members of the team
40. To jointly lead on developing the quality of the service provided to schools
41. To be responsible for the performance management of identified team members
42. To formally and informally support team members
43. To support the team leader in the leading and development of the team
44. To deputise for the team leader in the day to day management of the team as requested
Vaccination
The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings.
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