Job summary
Employer heading
Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist
Come and join our Children’s SLT team in Birmingham: a vibrant multicultural city!
Are you a newly qualified SLT? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge?
Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents?
Do you want to be part of an evolving SLT service with an experienced, optimistic and inclusive workforce of SLTs and education partners?
If so come and join us !
It’s a great time to join our SLT team!
- We offer excellent preceptorship support for NQPs with regular individual and group sessions & access to Specialists
- We’re delivering an integrated SLT service to support children with SLCN, working in partnership with families, the Local Authority and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels using a Balanced System(R) framework.
- We offer flexible working options; delivering care face to face and virtually, in education settings, clinics and family homes
What is the Balanced System(R)? Follow the link and find out!
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates will have opportunity to:
- Manage your own caseload of children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support functional outcomes
- Work alongside education, Local Authority & Early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to help children with SEND
- Work in localities developing networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
Working for our organisation
IMPORTANT
· Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
· Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
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
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to generate written communication, which is relevant ,concise, accurate and legible
- Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from minority groups.
Desirable criteria
- Has knowledge of assessment, diagnosis and intervention strategies of a wide range of clinical areas covered by degree
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree level qualification, relevant to service area (SLT)
- HCPC registration , Full Membership of Professional body
- Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities
Experience
Essential criteria
- Relevant experience in therapeutic settings.
- Relevant evidence of application of the therapy process during practice placement in paediatrics and community
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
PA team - [email protected]
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