Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Annualised hours
- Job ref
- 820-6259019-CF-A
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Locality TBC ; Central base Moseley Hall Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/08/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 14/08/2024
Employer heading
Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
Band 6 Children’s Speech and Language Therapist Interviews 14th August
Come and join one of our Locality SLT teams in Birmingham : a vibrant multicultural city! We have sessions available in our Schools teams, in both mainstream and specialist settings across the city supporting a range of speech, language and communication 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 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(R) 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.
Working for our organisation
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Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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:
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Trained in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
- Trained in NAS EarlyBird
- Trained in PECS
- Post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Able to develop specialist programmes of care & explain them to carers and staff.
Experience
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Abba
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07872420670
- Additional information
Lisa Abba, Service Clinical Manager SLT [email protected]
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