Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

The Doncaster and Bassetlaw Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit an experienced Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to be part of our mainstream schools team. They would consider the post as a Band 5 to Band 6 development opportunity for the right candidate.

This exciting role provides the successful candidate with an opportunity to develop their assessment and therapeutic skills, working with children aged 5 years and above, who have language difficulties as their primary need.

The successful candidate will deliver a speech and language therapy service for children and young people with language disorder within the Doncaster community. They will provide independent assessment and treatment of children as well as developing and implementing specialist programmes of care and treatment for individual patients with communication difficulties. They will be an integral part of the mainstream schools team, participating in the ongoing development of universal and targeted resources and training for internal and external colleagues.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be required to:

• Be a qualified clinician within their speciality
• Provide clinical expertise in supporting the delivery of high standards of therapeutic care for patients within their care / speciality
• Manage own caseload and to provide a high standard of assessment, management, treatment and advice to meet the needs of patients.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues in health, social care, local authority and other agencies to meet the needs of patients.
• Ensure the efficient and effective use of resources available within the team.
• Work with other members of the team in the development of the service.
• Ensure Clinical Governance is integral to service delivery within the specialty area.
• Represent the Therapy Team and contribute to the development of the wider Therapy service within Clinical Therapies.

About us

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.