Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Co-ordinator of School-Age Service and External Contracts
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Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas is a great place to work. It has been recognised as one of the Top 10 Best Places to Work 2023 by the Sunday Times amongst very big employers. Our staff survey results show that we are in the Top 5 in England and the highest in London for staff experience amongst similar trusts.
Bexley Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Service
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to lead a Mainstream School-age Service and coordinate External Contracts? If so, come and join Bexley Children’s Speech & Language Therapy service!
You will have a clinical SLT specialism within school-age years and a track record in planning and delivering Speech and Language services as well as contributing to service-level strategic and operational planning. Ideally you would have some experience of coordinating contracts with external and partnership organisations.
About Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust is a vibrant and diverse organisation, with established values: We’re Kind, We’re Fair, We Listen, We Care. Located within reach of the Kent countryside and central London. The post attracts Outer London pay weighting.
Role Responsibilities
The post holder will provide leadership to the Mainstream School-age Service and coordinate external contracts in Bexley ensuring continued and coordinated service delivery and development of clinical provision and inter-agency, local partnership working with local partners.
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- Oversee the development of clinical provision across school-age services
- Oversee the management and promotion of external contracts within the Bexley Collaborative Commissioning model
- Work alongside colleagues from Bexley Therapies (Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy), colleagues from Oxleas Business Office and colleagues from London Borough of Bexley
- Monitor and support budget management
- Work closely with the Service Lead, Coordinators for EY and Special Schools and the Operational Manager
- Provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children and young people within the school-age service
- Support parents, clients and other professionals in all issues related to client management
About Oxleas
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.
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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
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 Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Paula Johnson
- Job title: Operational Manager, Bexley Therapies
- Email address: paula.johnson4@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07771 988477
Oxleas NHS Trust operates a Probationary Period, further details are available on request.
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