Description
This is an exciting opportunity to take on the role of jointly leading the EYS (Early Years) team. You will be working closely with the 8a EYS clinical lead and fellow Band 7 EYS leads carrying out a similar role. As one of the Early Years Leads, you will provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to children 0-5 living in Newham.
The role will involve working within clinics, EYS education settings, Family Hubs and other community settings across the borough.
The postholder will:
- Contribute to the development and improvement of care pathways, intervention packages and training for parents and our partner agencies
- Jointly manage shared team caseloads and contribute to the planning and fair allocation of work across the EYS team
- Provide a service which takes account of the needs of children and families from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds
- Deputise for the EYS Clinical Lead & other Band 7 EYS leads when appropriate.
The successful applicant will have relevant experience of working with children and families, especially where a diagnosis of autism has been given, in providing support within early years settings including writing EHC needs assessment reports and participating in annual reviews. Previous experience of autism diagnostic work is desirable but not essential.
The post-holder will manage their own caseload and will support more junior staff through supervision, competency development and annual appraisal. Part of the role will involve training education staff and other partner agencies within Newham. The role will involve managing shared team caseloads and jointly planning and allocating work equitably across the team. There will be opportunity to lead service improvement work along with audit and pathway development. The post holder will on occasion deputise for the Early Years 8a Clinical Lead.
We can offer you:
- A warm, welcoming and supportive team of SaLTs and colleagues who bring experiences from all over the world.
- 1:1 monthly supervision, appraisal and CPD
- Team learning programme
- Protected service development time and regular team away days
- Opportunity to supervise and develop junior staff
- Monthly team meetings and band 7 leadership meetings
- On-going clinical skills development, MDT working
- Opportunity to lead on audit and service quality improvement projects.