Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Come and join one of our Locality SLT teams in Birmingham : a vibrant multicultural city!

We have sessions available in our Dysphagia and Schools teams, in both mainstream and specialist settings including a secondary SLCN Resource Base supporting a range of communication needs. The sessions are likely to be in East, North, Central and South-West but could be available elsewhere so do apply!

Regarding the dysphagia sessions, we are looking for people with a post graduate qualification in Paediatric dysphagia or an interest/ aptitude to develop these specialist skills. NB This is not required for those interested in the schools sessions only (this work is communication based).

Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents?

Do you want to be part of an integrated SLT service with an experienced, optimistic and inclusive workforce of SLTs and education partners?

If so come and join us!

It's an exciting time !It's our first year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System framework. We're working in partnership with families, the Local Authority, individual schools and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels

Main duties of the job

Successful candidates will have opportunity to:

• Manage your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)and/or Dysphagia including assessment, diagnosis and intervention using an enabling model to support the child to achieve functional outcomes
• Deliver care, face to face and virtually, across a range of locations including education settings, children's centres, family hubs, health centres and family homes
• Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff
• Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with SLCN and complex needs
• Work alongside education and local authority and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and work in localities developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.

About us

Join our department at this exciting time:

• We offer flexible working with opportunities to work full-time, part-time, Term Time Only, hybrid (mix of virtual and face to face)

• We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.
• We value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development, and we welcome and value new ideas and experiences.
• We are strongly committed to anti-racism, equality and diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity in our workforce to better serve our communities
• We have strong links with Universities and are committed to student education

• We have great access to IT: laptops and mobile phones provided as routine

For further information about our department follow the link below:

http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/childrens-slt

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
• Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
• Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
• Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
• Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.

See Job description for more detail.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• A Degree level qualification relevant to the SLT profession
• HCPC Licence to practice
• Full Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialist area, e.g. ASD , dysphagia, fluency, SLI

Desirable

• Trained in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
• Trained in NAS EarlyBird
• Trained in PECS
• Post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia

Other job requirements

Essential

• Is able to deliver a number of contacts across the working week across a range of settings
• Is able and willing to move around the city.
• Is able to carry a variety of equipment between locations safely.
• Is able to work at various heights and locations according to needs of clients.

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• Able to use evidence base to inform clinical decision making around complex presentations in specialist clinical area
• Able to work with a range of families in a culturally and socially diverse area
• Highly developed negotiation and influencing skills with emerging clinical leadership.
• Strong analytical and planning skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to explain complex ideas in a simple way. Able to write clear reports and notes to a professional standard.
• IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes e.g. Communicate in Print.

Desirable

• Able to develop specialist programmes of care & explain them to carers and staff.

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of delivering clinical support and supervision to less experienced Speech and Language Therapists and/or SLT assistants
• Demonstrates high awareness of safeguarding issues and processes
• Significant experience as a qualified therapist of successful multi-agency working with families and stakeholders in Local Authority and Health settings.
• Specialist management of a diverse caseload, as a qualified therapist, having provided support to other professionals.
• Experience of delivering successful/effective training to other professionals.

Personal qualities

Essential

• Can prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations.
• Is able to reflect on own clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Locality TBC Central base Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Rd

Birmingham

B13 8JL

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820-6259019-CF