Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services (CHS) Division of NottsHC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home.

The division operates under three Units of Management providing an extensive portfolio of children's, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. We offer various clinical and non-clinical roles, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.

Main duties of the job

Our integrated teams of Nursing and Allied Health Professionals deliver care to people who present with significant physical health care needs in various settings including clinic based, community inpatient, hospices to care in the patient's own home, including care homes, enabling them to be independent, self-caring and live their optimum lives, reducing hospital admissions.

Services range from community nursing, including specialist practitioners, to public health and health promotion such as school nursing and health visiting, with many specialist community services designed to support care pathways such as Physiotherapy, OT, Speech and Language, Dietetics and Podiatry.

Supporting the efficient running of these services are administrative and managerial roles. All roles, at all levels, are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.

About us

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career.

Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

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Job description
Job responsibilities

We are pleased to be advertising 1 permanent community post to join our friendly and supportive team. :

These community sessions will be based in the South Locality Team covering the Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe areas.

We are looking for a Speech and Language Therapist who wishes to develop skills in working with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) in clinics, nursery/school settings and home environments.

The Speech and Language Therapy Service supports children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and eating and drinking needs , across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County. The service provides a range of packages of care for children with speech and language difficulties, developmental language disorder, autistic spectrum disorder, learning difficulties, physical difficulties, eating and drinking difficulties, voice disorders, hearing impairment and disorders of fluency. The service aims to provide support to children in the most appropriate setting e.g. health, education, home.

We are a large department relative to other departments across the country. This means that there are frequent opportunities to develop skills, and we have therapists who are able to specialise in clinical areas and share their knowledge/support less experienced therapists.

We would love to hear from you if you can or are keen to develop your skills to

- Assess, diagnose, design and deliver appropriate packages of care for children with SLCN.

- Work collaboratively with, and provide training and coaching for parents, education staff and other professionals , ensuring a well co-ordinated support plan for children who meet the criteria for speech and language therapy.

- Assist in the identification and management of children with SLCN as part of the integrated team and advise SLTAs.

Essential criteria includes:

- Recognised Speech and Language Degree Qualification or equivalent/working towards

- An interest in and experience (which could be undergraduate) of working with children and young people with a wide range of SLCN and eating and drinking difficulties.

- Experience (which could be undergraduate) of working in schools and/or pre-school settings with children with a variety of communication difficulties

- An understanding of the role of the speech and language therapist in meeting the needs of children accessing a community clinic service and/or school/pre-school settings

- An interest or experience in multi disciplinary team working.

- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

Why Choose us?

You will become part of the Specialist Services and Children and Young People Unit of Management and be welcomed by an extremely supportive and efficient team who display high levels of quality and compassion to the services and care they provide.

You will receive a local induction which is tailored to your individual needs and be afforded an informal discussion with a Manager of the service which provides opportunity for you to share your journey to NottsHC and understand how your values align with ours and the factors that motivate you to reinforce a supportive working relationship.

As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations.

You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer;

• Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working and job share opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy work life balance
• Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
• Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted Leisure Centre membership
• Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
• An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
• Support for carers

Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our website www.nottinghamshirehealthcare.nhs.uk

If you want to be the Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Recognised SLT degree/diploma
• RCSLT and HCPC Registered or pending registration for final year SLT students

Experience
Essential

• Experience of administration associated with caseload management
• Experience of range of types of assessment for children with SLCN
• Experience of working with children with a wide range of SLCN
• Experience of delivering a range of POC's for children with SLCN
• Some experience of successful team working
• Experience of working in range of settings
• Experience of working through others (coaching/supporting parents/setting based staff)

Desirable

• Range of experience of team working
• Experience of being involved in training others
• Experience of working with/supporting SLTA's

Knowledge
Essential

• Demonstrates an emerging theoretical knowledge of evidence based speech & language therapy practice relating to children with SLCN.

Skills
Essential

• Enthusiasm, Motivation, Flexibility
• Positive approach to team working

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