This is an exciting opportunity for motivated Speech and Language Therapists to join our Children's Speech and Language Therapy team, providing specialist Speech & Language Therapy services to children & young people in Gloucestershire.

We have hours available to support community clinics across the county, specialist schools and developing cleft, lip and palate specialism. Our community clinics support children with speech, preschool language, voice, fluency and social communication needs.

Due to the number of hours we have available, please specify in your application which areas of the role you are interested in and the number of hours you would like to apply for.

This post is to support community clinics across the county. This can include central hubs in Gloucester and Cheltenham as well as outlying clinics in the Cotswolds, the Forest of Dean and Stroud. This is determined by current service need and the base may change in response to this.

The post holder will be responsible for assessing, differentially diagnosing, treating and managing a designated caseload of children.

They will provide advice to parents and other professionals in order to support the needs of children in line with the Care Aims approach, including agreeing outcomes with key adults supporting the children on the caseload.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Independently assess, diagnose, plan and deliver an appropriate therapeutic service to children with a range of speech, language and communication needs.
• Analyse complex cases in order to inform decision making for case management, working within the care aims framework to design appropriate evidence based intervention.
• Provide advice, information, demonstration and training where necessary concerning specific strategies of intervention for the management of the child's communication difficulties.
• Provide timely reports to parents / carers and other professionals to ensure that the child's needs are appropriately identified.
• Contribute to graduated pathway plans, write EHC Plans to SEND Casework Officers in line with the SEND graduated pathway.
• Be an active member of our innovative supervision structure.
• Contribute to service development projects.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.

The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:

• 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users
• 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work
• 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority
• 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative

Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To use negotiation skills to manage any potential areas of conflict in a proactive manner, especially in relation to satisfying the competing demands of an unpredictable and varied workload, working co-operatively and flexibly with all stakeholders.

To form productive relationships with carers /parents who may be under stress, in particular when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of their childs difficulties and implications of this.

To communicate complex condition related information from assessments in such a manner as to inform and positively motivate clients, carers, families and multi-disciplinary team members / other professionals.To demonstrate appropriate skills and techniques to parents and to Learning Support staff in schools and pre-school settings to maximise the effectiveness of speech and language therapy intervention within all settings.

To develop collaborative and co-operative working relationships with SLTcolleagues in in-house client/working groups, SLT colleagues who offer similar provision at other locations across the County, and colleagues in relevant Special Interest Groups within the profession to ensure that the service reflects best practice and makes best use of shared resources.

To communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to clients, carers families and multi-disciplinary team members/other professionals, and to develop and maintain working relationships with a wide range of other Professionals including Health Visitors, Community Paediatricians, Pre-school CYPD Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators, Advisory Teaching Staff, Educational Psychologists, Social Services colleagues, Head Teachers, teaching and support staff in mainstream schools.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of independently managing own caseload

Experience

Essential

• Prior experience of working with children with speech, language and communication needs

Professional registration

Essential

• Current HCPC registration and RCSLT membership

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countywide

Springbank Community Resource Centre

Cheltenham

GL51 0LH

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327-24-747