Children's Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a B5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established and friendly team.

You'll be passionate about working with children and families. You'll be keen to progress in our busy, pro-active environment where we offer opportunities to develop clinical skills and to get involved with service development from an early stage in your career.

We offer frequent management supervision, regular team meetings and robust specialist clinical support. Evidence-based practice is embedded and CPD is actively encouraged. We work across schools, clinics and children's centres together with education and nursery staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Specialist Teachers, carers and families. We work with multi-lingual families together with bi-lingual assistants and interpreters. If you have are positive, enthusiastic and keen to develop your skills then we are keen to hear from you!

Please click on the link below to watch a short video about working as a Speech and Language Therapist at Northern Care Alliance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTkm_vKeoc

Main duties of the job

• Take your place with us providing assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• You will assess, treat and review children in face-to-face and video appointments.
• You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
• You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
• You will work in clinics, education settings, children's centres and family homes.
• You will drive continuous improvement with your innovation and passion for developing new ways of working.
• You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children's workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three

core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information

around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website

https://www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk