Job summary
This is a wonderful opportunity for a qualified Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, to join our friendly and innovative supportive Children's team in Bradford, a vibrant multi-cultural city.
The successful applicant will work with the paediatric population, working across a variety of locations, including community clinics, nurseries and school settings. You will join a team of dedicated Speech and Language Therapists and Clinical Support Workers who are passionate about meeting the needs of our population.
The Speech and Language Therapy service provides a supportive network of generalist, specialist and highly specialist therapists working in a wide range of clinical areas, and there are excellent opportunities for continuous professional development and clinical supervision.
We will be interviewing for various options at this specialist band 6 level:
-Specialist SaLT post for Children's Speech and Language Therapy:This will be working in nurseries and schools in Bradford to support communication.
-Mixed specialist post-with a paediatric dysphagia component : If you are interested in developing in this area, we will support you through your dysphagia competencies, &/or we welcome trained dysphagia SaLTs too.
Please indication on your application which option(s) you prefer.
Main duties of the job
To work effectively as part of an established Children's Speech and Language Therapy team to provide assessment, therapy, advice and support to children and young people aged 0 - 18 who have specific needs in relation to their communication and dysphagia if applicable.
To manage a caseload of complex cases including; individuals who present with speech and language disorders, social communication disorders ,complex cases of paediatric communication difficulties and dysphagia if applicable.
About us
Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -
We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference
We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs
We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners
We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :
Increase mileage rates for > 3500
A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages
A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities
Plus many more.
We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.
BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.
The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please read the attached Job description and the person specification for more details about this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration, Degree in SLT
- RCSLT Registration
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of a range of therapeutic approaches relevant to the clinical specialism
- In-depth Knowledge and evidence of multi professional/multi agency working
- Ability to mentor SLT New Graduate, SLT Generalist and Clinical Support Workers
- Able to work independently for most general cases with support for complex clinical cases specialism
- In-depth Knowledge and experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
Desirable
- Ability to speak one or more locality languages
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of working with a range of paediatric communication disorders, aged 0 - 18
- Experience of working in a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience supporting pre-grad SLT students, clinical support workers and junior colleagues
- Evidence of training others e.g. parents, support staff, professionals
- Experience of working in a variety of health, social, educational and residential settings
- Experience of working effectively with Bilingual Assistants and Interpreters
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- HCPC Registration, Degree in SLT
- RCSLT Registration
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Excellent knowledge of a range of therapeutic approaches relevant to the clinical specialism
- In-depth Knowledge and evidence of multi professional/multi agency working
- Ability to mentor SLT New Graduate, SLT Generalist and Clinical Support Workers
- Able to work independently for most general cases with support for complex clinical cases specialism
- In-depth Knowledge and experience of working in a multi-cultural environment
Desirable
- Ability to speak one or more locality languages
Experience
Essential
- In depth experience of working with a range of paediatric communication disorders, aged 0 - 18
- Experience of working in a Multi-disciplinary team
- Experience supporting pre-grad SLT students, clinical support workers and junior colleagues
- Evidence of training others e.g. parents, support staff, professionals
- Experience of working in a variety of health, social, educational and residential settings
- Experience of working effectively with Bilingual Assistants and Interpreters
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
