Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Cluster Lead Schools
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £51,883 - £58,544 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 13 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, E15 4PT |
| Cwmni: | East London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7258165/363-SS7258165 |
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A Vacancy at East London NHS Foundation Trust.
Band 7 – Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist: Cluster Lead Schools Service
Paediatric Community Services- Newham, East London Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced speech and language therapist looking to develop your leadership skills?
We have an exciting opportunity, in our new joint commissioned SLT schools service, to be a ‘Custer lead’ SLT. This role will provide clinical leadership to a small team of schools speech and language therapists.
Within the role, you will have protected leadership time to coordinate and oversee the delivery of speech therapy to schools within your allocated cluster. This will include providing support, supervision and training to staff within your cluster along with line management responsibilities. The post holder will also manage a caseload of schools providing assessment, advice and intervention.
There will be opportunity to continue to develop your clinical skills and be involved in service development and improvement work. Come and be part of an award winning team!
Based at the child development centre, in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, close to the Olympic Park in the heart of London’s East End (with excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex).
For more information, contact: Natalie Blanchard Clinical Lead Schools SLT service Natalie.Blanchard@nhs.net phone: 078265448204
1. The post holder will take a lead as an autonomous practitioner in coordinating and overseeing the speech and language referrals and service delivery within a schools cluster group. This will include allocation of referrals and overseeing service delivery to schools, escalating issues to the service lead as appropriate.
2. The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner managing their own caseload and schools and prioritising activities to meet demands and required deadlines. This will include assessing and supporting a range of communication difficulties in children and young people within the schools service. They will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments.
3. The post holder will be responsible for supporting a range of key stakeholders including school based staff, parents and carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the young person.
4. The post holder will support coordination of student placements and oversee the quality of placements -reporting any issues to the clinical lead.
5. To contribute to service development and deputise for the clinical lead
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
The post holder will be part of the speech therapy service school service and will have responsibility as a cluster lead to coordinate the services provided to schools within their ‘cluster’.
The cluster leadership duties will involve coordination and allocation of referrals made to the service including EHC Needs assessment. The role has 0.2 wte protected for the ‘cluster lead’ /coordination role.
The post holder will ensure effective and efficient systems are in place for the smooth delivery of the core and traded services to schools. The post holder will be supported by the Clinical Lead for the service.
To be the First point of contact for SaLT colleagues and schools within the cluster locality; facilitating problem solving relating to service delivery issues e.g workload, complaints and providing support to colleagues
To provide training and specialist second opinions to SaLT colleagues in the cluster and lead on service improvement projects.
To provide clinical supervision including support, monitoring and assisting with performance management in conjunction with line manager
The post holder will be responsible for supporting parents and school based staff to deliver delegated therapy programmes in order to best support young people to access educational and community environments. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the child/young person.
The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of a variety of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments for children and young peoples within the mainstream school service working as an autonomous practitioner maintaining their own caseload.
The post holder will contribute to refining pathways / models of provision to support young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). You will be a leading contributor to auditing and measuring outcomes in order to support staff development recruitment and retention within the SLT service.
The post holder will deputise for the clinical lead as required
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025
Band 7 – Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist: Cluster Lead Schools Service
Paediatric Community Services- Newham, East London Foundation Trust
Are you an experienced speech and language therapist looking to develop your leadership skills?
We have an exciting opportunity, in our new joint commissioned SLT schools service, to be a ‘Custer lead’ SLT. This role will provide clinical leadership to a small team of schools speech and language therapists.
Within the role, you will have protected leadership time to coordinate and oversee the delivery of speech therapy to schools within your allocated cluster. This will include providing support, supervision and training to staff within your cluster along with line management responsibilities. The post holder will also manage a caseload of schools providing assessment, advice and intervention.
There will be opportunity to continue to develop your clinical skills and be involved in service development and improvement work. Come and be part of an award winning team!
Based at the child development centre, in Stratford in the London Borough of Newham, close to the Olympic Park in the heart of London’s East End (with excellent transport links with the rest of London and Essex).
For more information, contact: Natalie Blanchard Clinical Lead Schools SLT service Natalie.Blanchard@nhs.net phone: 078265448204
1. The post holder will take a lead as an autonomous practitioner in coordinating and overseeing the speech and language referrals and service delivery within a schools cluster group. This will include allocation of referrals and overseeing service delivery to schools, escalating issues to the service lead as appropriate.
2. The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner managing their own caseload and schools and prioritising activities to meet demands and required deadlines. This will include assessing and supporting a range of communication difficulties in children and young people within the schools service. They will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments.
3. The post holder will be responsible for supporting a range of key stakeholders including school based staff, parents and carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the young person.
4. The post holder will support coordination of student placements and oversee the quality of placements -reporting any issues to the clinical lead.
5. To contribute to service development and deputise for the clinical lead
Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.
The post holder will be part of the speech therapy service school service and will have responsibility as a cluster lead to coordinate the services provided to schools within their ‘cluster’.
The cluster leadership duties will involve coordination and allocation of referrals made to the service including EHC Needs assessment. The role has 0.2 wte protected for the ‘cluster lead’ /coordination role.
The post holder will ensure effective and efficient systems are in place for the smooth delivery of the core and traded services to schools. The post holder will be supported by the Clinical Lead for the service.
To be the First point of contact for SaLT colleagues and schools within the cluster locality; facilitating problem solving relating to service delivery issues e.g workload, complaints and providing support to colleagues
To provide training and specialist second opinions to SaLT colleagues in the cluster and lead on service improvement projects.
To provide clinical supervision including support, monitoring and assisting with performance management in conjunction with line manager
The post holder will be responsible for supporting parents and school based staff to deliver delegated therapy programmes in order to best support young people to access educational and community environments. This may involve training and modelling strategies to others working with the child/young person.
The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of a variety of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and other associated language learning and communication impairments for children and young peoples within the mainstream school service working as an autonomous practitioner maintaining their own caseload.
The post holder will contribute to refining pathways / models of provision to support young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN). You will be a leading contributor to auditing and measuring outcomes in order to support staff development recruitment and retention within the SLT service.
The post holder will deputise for the clinical lead as required
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Jul 2025