Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 10 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 267-BM6360769-A
- Employer
- Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sue Nicholls Centre
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Aylesbury
Band 6
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
We are a responsive and innovative Foundation Trust that places our values of Caring, Safe and Excellent at the heart of everything we do. We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision of outstanding care delivered by outstanding people.
We work with a wide range of partner organisations to deliver care and support to people in their own homes and from a number of hospitals and community bases. We focus on delivering care as close to home as possible for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Job overview
Are you a Speech and Language Therapist passionate about providing therapy for children and young people who are neurodivergent and have mental health needs, who wants to be able to work from home and a clinical base? Do you want to work in an organisation that values being caring, safe and excellent? Do you have the skills and knowledge to help us deliver mental health support in the beautiful county of Buckinghamshire?
Then this role is for you.
You will join a friendly and supportive, well-established, and knowledgeable multi-professional team. You will receive quality reflective supervision. You will use your skills to deliver quality assessments and interventions and influence service improvements. You will have opportunities grow in your career and continuing professional development. You will be a vital member of the team helping the system to understand the complete identity of the young person including their neurodivergence, mental health and developmental profile.
Main duties of the job
To support the multidisciplinary team to understand the communication profile and needs of the young people on your caseload and help them adapt their intervention to achieve better mental health outcomes.
To raise the awareness of the communication needs of young people with neurodivergence in CAMHs.
To offer trauma informed assessment to support with differential diagnosis and the identification of communication needs for young people accessing CAMHs services.
To offer short blocks of therapeutic work to teach communication skills and strategies to enable young people to access talking therapies.
To work closely with community healthcare services, families and the education and social care systems to empower them to help the child / young person to reach their potential.
Working for our organisation
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset.
Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people’s homes, delivering care as close to home as possible
Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: “Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team”
Our values are: “Caring, safe and excellent”
At Oxford Health we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:
- Excellent opportunities for career progression
- Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and development
- 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous service
- NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailers
- Competitive pension scheme
- Lease car scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Mental Health First Aiders
- Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists may apply)
- Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated caseload of patients and be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work including prioritising work.
- To clinically triage children and young people to identify clinical need, prioritisation, appropriate assessment and therapeutic intervention.
- To provide specialist and comprehensive trauma informed speech and Language therapy assessment for children / young people referred to the Service, for a range of clinical presentations within scope of competence. This will involve gathering, interpreting and evaluating highly complex information from a variety of sources, using evidence-based therapy outcome measures and analysing the child/yp’s needs using skilled problem-solving approaches.
- To independently make differential diagnoses on the basis of evidence from assessment and to develop clear care plans embedded in evidence base
- To formulate, implement, evaluate and adapt individualised treatment or management programmes for children / young people on the caseload, taking the child’s and families goals into consideration and using clinical reasoning skills and support from senior staff.
- To provide advice, including writing reports, to others regarding the management and care of children / young people on the caseload with speech/language/communication within the scope of their competence.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- • Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
Desirable criteria
- • Specialty specific post graduate courses
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Post graduate experience of working with children & young people with complex speech, language and communication needs
- • Experience of managing and prioritising a caseload
- • Demonstrates well established knowledge of range of specialist SLT assessment tools & therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group
Desirable criteria
- • Involvement in audit or research
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of neurodivergence / Learning Disabilities
- Expereince of working with Children and young people
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Expereince of working in a mental health setting
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Bailey
- Job title
- Operational lead & AHP Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01865 901325
- Additional information
Informal visits and conversations welcome.
At Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust we want to employ people not just with experience, but with the aptitude and motivation to succeed and whose values resonate with our own.
Therefore, if you don’t meet all the requirements of the role and are unsure about applying but are excited about the opportunity, please do get in touch. We will be happy to discuss the requirements in more detail ahead of making a written application.
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