Bank Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Band 7 | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

This will include providing ASD highly specialist Speech & Language Therapy input to clients admitted or at risk of admission referred to the service. The role will require working alongside Community Mental Health Teams and inpatient mental health wards working with the above cohort of service users. The post holder needs to be prepared to work as a part of the multi-disciplinary team as an autonomous practitioner which has close links with a wide range of other NHS agencies and outside agencies. The Highly Specialist Speech & Language therapist will also have the responsibility to support the team with diagnostic assessments of adults with suspected Autism according to NICE guidance if and as needed by the service.

To provide highly specialist assessment to clients within area of service

· To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local trust policies

· To have clinical knowledge of mental health and psychiatric conditions such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders and mood disorders.

· To adapt practice to meet individual patients’/clients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences

· To ensure that patients and/or their families are involved in the planning of their care/management plans wherever possible

· To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.

· To manage a complex caseload independently accessing clinical supervision on a planned basis

· To monitor and evaluate own service delivery accessing clinical supervision on a planned basis

· To support the service with diagnostic assessment of Autism as needed

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re
• We Listen
• We Care

· To provide highly specialist assessment to clients within area of service

· To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT

professional standards and local trust policies

· To have clinical knowledge of mental health and psychiatric conditions such as personality disorders, anxiety disorders and mood disorders.

· To adapt practice to meet individual patients’/clients’ circumstances,

including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences

· To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.

· To monitor and evaluate own service delivery accessing clinical supervision on a planned basis

· To support the service with diagnostic assessment of Autism as needed

· To promote the adherence to CQC requirements within the local Speech and Language therapy service;

· To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice where appropriate.

· To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate through mentoring, peer support, clinical and managerial supervision

· To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct

· To demonstrate the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness

· To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment seeking support and advice from a supervisor as appropriate

· To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment seeking advice as appropriate

· To act in accordance with the professional standards set out by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy and the Health Professionals Council and to be accountable for own professional action;

· To act in accordance with local policies and procedures at all times;

· To demonstrate knowledge of and pursue the principles of professional

requirements, current legislation and best practice guidance;

· To maintain knowledge of current best practice and clinical effectiveness within the Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Learning Disability field.

This advert closes on Wednesday 17 Jun 2026

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