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 Early Years team and/ or Dysphagia in supporting a range of speech, language and communication needs and/or eating and drinking needs.

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, health and education partners? If so come and join us!

It's an exciting time ! We're in our 2nd year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System framework. We're working in partnership with families, the Local Authority, schools, nurseries and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels

Read all about the Balanced System (R) here. Be ready to talk about it at interview!

https://www.thebalancedsystem.org/

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 eating and drinking needs 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, home 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
• 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

Other job requirements

Essential

• Is able to independently travel across the city, carrying all necessary equipment safely
• Is able to deliver interventions at various heights and locations according to clients needs

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• oCompetent in using evidence base to inform clinical decisions and best practice in specialist clinical area
• oKnowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
• oCompetent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
• oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area

Experience

Essential

• oExperience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
• oExperience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
• oSignificant experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
• Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
• oExperience of delivering successful/effective training to a range of qualified professionals in the area of specialism

Personal qualities

Essential

• oAbility to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies
• oAbility to reflect on 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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820-6867392-CF