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Children's Speech & Language Therapist - Band 6 + salary incentive

Employer
Bromley Healthcare CIC
Location
Bromley (City/Town), London (Greater)
Salary
£37,152 - £43,994 incl HCAS per annum pro rata + salary incentive
Closing date
23 Jan 2022

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Job Details

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding. Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk.

Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role we will be asking for evidence of business insurance. 

 

Job overview

Full time and part time considered

There is a salary incentive attached to this role of £1,000 after successful completion of probationary period (6 months) and a further £1,000 (24 months after starting), subject to meeting the standards set by the organisation. 

We are currently looking for a Children's Speech & Language Therapist to join our dynamic, friendly team who are patient focused and thrive on providing quality care.

Bromley Healthcare are growing and continuing to expand our fantastic Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service with opportunities across the board covering a school buy in service and our core health activities.

Come and join a friendly, supportive, enthusiastic team who have an excellent reputation with innovative ideas that are taken on board by the Service lead and implemented across the service. We are a growing team, through additional funding and staff progression. Our SLT team staff turnover has been low for several years. Many of our team have been with us from NQT to Band 6, 7 and 8.

 

Main duties of the job

We are keen to speak to experienced enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated band 6 Speech and Language Therapists to join our friendly and supportive team on a permanent all year or term time only basis. We have a range of opportunities to work with pre school and school age children and young people in clinics, mainstream schools, specialist provisions / special schools  including SEMH and YOS . You will need to be highly motivated and enthusiastic with an ability to work independently but also work well within a team.

You will work with a mixed paediatric caseload who have a range of speech, language and communication needs. You will be responsible for the management, assessment and treatment of the children on these caseloads, with the support of peers and more senior colleagues.

Successful band 6 applicants will contribute to in-service training within the department and to take responsibility for the supervision of students and more junior staff.

We have an excellent system of appraisal, clinical supervision and training for all staff. You will be part of a dynamic, committed team of staff delivering high quality services to the population of Bromley. We believe in innovation and encourage staff to work in new and effective ways. Bromley Healthcare is an established social enterprise. As a shareholder you would have greater involvement and an opportunity to influence key decisions.

 

Working for our organisation

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people and adults. Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years and we have a wealth of experience.

Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice, means that your career with us will be rewarding.

Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point, applicants from outside the NHS will receive the start point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms & conditions.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, access to EAP, high street discounts, Blue Light Card eligibility, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme and we are constantly looking to expand our staff benefits.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical- Patient/Client Care
1. To develop and provide a specialised speech and language therapy service to patients referred with communication and/or swallowing disorders.
2. To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment, leading to decisions about intervention/treatment.
3. To communicate complex condition related information, from assessment to patients/clients, carers, families and members of the multi disciplinary team/other professions.
4. To maintain sensitivity at all times to the emotional needs of patients/clients and their carers, in particular when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of he patient/client’s difficulties and implications of the same.
5. To negotiate and work closely with patients/clients, carers, families, and other professionals, agreeing decision- making and prioritisation relevant to the patient/client’s management, devising agreed care plans based on best practice, seeking advice from manager/supervisor for more complex cases.
6. To initiate and provide a variety of treatment options according to patients needs, including the use of interpreters as appropriate.
7. To use forms of alternative and augmentative communication e.g. signing, symbols, speech synthesisers as indicated from assessment to maximise the client’s communication.
8. To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers and families and colleagues, aiming to achieve effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
9. To adapt practice to meet individual patient/ client circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic and gender differences.
10.To form productive relationships with clients who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

  • Recognised speech & language therapy degree qualification or equivalent.

Desirable criteria

  • Membership of relevant CEN

Professional Registration

Essential criteria

  • Health Professions Council License to practice.

Desirable criteria

  • Member of RCSLT

Specific Skills

Essential criteria

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, including observation, listening and empathy.
  • Well developed analytical skills with use of knowledge necessary for case load management, assessment and therapy relevant to client group e.g. prioritisation
  • Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment diagnosis and treatment of clients/patients.
  • Ability to transcribe speech phonetically.
  • Skills in handling clients/ patients with disabilities.
  • Ability to maintain intense concentration in all aspects of patient management for prolonged periods.

Experience

Essential criteria

  • Evidence of developing responsibility for clinic and caseload management.
  • Experience of working with other professionals relevant to client groups.
  • pre school and school age experience
  • secondary age experience
  • special school experience
  • specialist skills in dysphagia,deafness or asd( i.e ados trained)

Training

Essential criteria

  • Evidence of Continuing Professional Development

Desirable criteria

  • Evidence of appropriate external and internal training as appropriate to developing specialism.

 

We are passionate about caring for our service users, and their family and friends, and the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why it's a requirement for everyone joining Bromley Healthcare in a regulated/patient facing role to have been fully vaccinated against Covid19 or to hold a qualifying exemption. Applicants are further advised that it is a condition of employment that evidence of vaccination status is provided.

You can get a flavour for what its like to work for Bromley Healthcare by viewing the following YouTube link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXqdJm17dcbXnfvh98qlJ0g

Salary is dependant on NHS experience and current banding/pay point, applicants from outside the NHS will receive the start point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms & conditions.

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.

Bromley Healthcare is fully committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, in a work environment where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured and celebrated. We do not tolerate discrimination of any kind. At Bromley Healthcare, diversity and inclusion is one of the key strands of our People Strategy, and we are fully committed to promoting diversity in all we do to make real and lasting change. 

As an equal opportunities employer, we welcome and encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals regardless of race, sex, disability, religion /belief, sexual orientation or age. We are especially keen to increase Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.   

 We look forward to welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare.  

 All offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six month probation period

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and part of the NHS family.

But we are a little different; we like to think that we stand out from typical NHS organisations as Bromley Healthcare CIC is actually a co-owned social enterprise, co-owned by its employees. This means that our staff remain on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (providing you are eligible), if not we can offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.

Company

Excellent benefits package available including various pension schemes, discounted gym membership, cycle to work scheme, discounted electronics, opportunity to apply for low interest personal loans and an excellent lease car scheme.

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and part of the NHS family.

But we are a little different; we like to think that we stand out from typical NHS organisations as Bromley Healthcare CIC is actually a co-owned social enterprise, co-owned by its employees. This means that our staff remain on NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (providing you are eligible), if not we can offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.

What difference does this make?

Because our Nurses, therapists and support staff co-own Bromley Healthcare CIC and have a real say in how our services are run, this has created a greater sense of ownership, responsibility & motivation among our staff which in turn creates better quality for our patients & families.

If you are keen to work for a dynamic, forward thinking but different type of NHS employer then Bromley Healthcare could be for you!

From health visiting to district nursing, school nurses to specialist nurses, our nursing services help new parents to care for new born children and older people to continue living at home through care and support. We also have a wide range of therapy services for adults and children, including speech and language therapy, physiotherapy and occupational therapy whilst our specialist services focus on preventing diseases and supporting those living with specific conditions such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) or diabetes.

 

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