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Staffing Hospital
REF #
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CLOSES
30/11/23
About Us
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Job Description
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
“We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager.”
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
Excellent written and verbal presentation skills
Good prioritisation and organisational skills
Well-developed concentration, analytic, and reflection skills.
Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with people from a wide range of cultures and organizations including schools
Desirable criteria
Ability to prioritise in the light of scarce resources and time/staff pressures.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Recognised degree in Speech and Language Therapy
Registered member of HCPC
Member of RCSLT
To have undertaken post-graduate study or had relevant experience in theories, assessment and therapy techniques / approaches for children with complex communication disorders
To have undertaken post-graduate study or had relevant experience in implications for delays / disorders within an educational setting
Desirable criteria
To have undertaken post-graduate study or had relevant experience in special educational issues for client groups
Knowledge
Essential criteria
Up-to-date knowledge of research relating to children with speech and language disorders
Awareness of principles of clinical governance
Developed negotiating and problem solving skills.
Understanding of the roles of other professionals working with specialist client group
Desirable criteria
Working knowledge of the Care Aims Model
Applied knowledge of issues around inclusive education and the associated issues for children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs
Applied knowledge of the impact of socio-economic factors affecting speech and language therapy provision
Knowledge of the issues of multi-cultural and multi-lingual communities relating to speech and language therapy.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.
Our people strategy for 2019-2022 sets out our priorities and an action plan to meet our ambition. In this strategy, we set out the deal we are offering to you in return for living and breathing our values so that they shape everything that you do every single day.
As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.
We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.
After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.
By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.
Requirements
Job overview
Are you looking for a Band 6 post in a friendly, supportive, and diverse team? We’d love for you to join us! We have a full-time position available but would also consider part time hours or a term time only contract. Get in touch to find out about our flexible working options.
What we can offer you:
Lots of support - group clinical supervision, 1:1 line management, ad hoc informal office support and monthly clinical sharing sessions
The benefits of a large team - well-resourced with assessments, intervention programmes and training packages that we share and adapt
You will have a clear timetable for your days and would work in a maximum of 4 schools across the week
Rewarding clinical work in an interesting and busy east London borough
Easy travel to your allocated schools by public transport, cycling or walking
Proximity to green spaces like Victoria Park, canals and riverside areas, and our area includes Canary Wharf, Bethnal Green and Shoreditch
Office base at Mile End Hospital with great transport links (Central, District, and Elizabeth Lines, DLR, overground trains, lots of bus routes and easy access from train stations like Stratford and Liverpool Street)
Flexibility – term time only work if you prefer, ability to work some of the week from home, flexi time arrangements
Access to short term staff accommodation to help with relocation to London
Inner London weighting (enhanced pay rates)
Main duties of the job
The post holder works as a member of the Speech and Language Therapy Children’s Service. He / she works as a member of the team that provides support to children in mainstream primary and secondary schools, across language resource provisions and alternative provisions. The post holder participates in the assessment and advice service as well as supporting a designated caseload of children and schools in line with the service priorities supported by the Lead and Coordinators for Mainstream Schools.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
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