Job vacancy: Bank B6 Early Years SALT INW, Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust, London

Job summary

Main area: SALT
Grade: 6
Contract: Bank
Hours: Flexible working - Various
Job ref: 824-BANK-LIT1378

Employer: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Parsons Green Health Centre
Town: London
Salary: £22.92 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
Salary period: Hourly
Closing: 23/04/2025 11:00

Bank B6 Early Years SALT INW

6

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To take a delegated role or lead, as requested by SLT Leadership team, in working groups, policy development groups, specific projects and events.

· To use highly specialist knowledge to inform line manager on issues of service delivery/ policy development, including access and equity shortfalls and service pressures.

· To develop care protocols/packages relating to specialist area in liaison with Team Leader to improve client care.

To interpret clinical guidelines and adapt to local service needs on the basis of specialist clinical knowledge.
To take the lead on the development of specific team objectives or projects in liaison with peers and/or manager.

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria

• Registration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
• Registered member of RCSLT.
• Courses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework
• Completed ADOS assessment training and is confident in administering the assessment, interpreting the findings and scoring the assessment. Has been completing ADOS Assessments for at least 2 years.

Desirable criteria

• Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)

Experience

Essential criteria

• Working with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical
• Specialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
• Working collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
• Knowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
• Experience of offering clinical supervision

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.

The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)

"We work Flexibly"

Applicant requirements

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Shanelle Green
Job title: Bank recruitment business partner
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 02039378322

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