Job summary
Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapist
Come and join one of our Locality SLT teams in Birmingham : a vibrant multicultural city!
We have sessions available in our Early Years team and/ or Dysphagia in supporting a range of speech, language and communication needs and/or eating and drinking 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, health and education partners? If so come and join us!
It's an exciting time ! We're in our 2nd year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System framework. We're working in partnership with families, the Local Authority, schools, nurseries and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels
Read all about the Balanced System (R) here. Be ready to talk about it at interview!
https://www.thebalancedsystem.org/
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 eating and drinking needs 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.
About us
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.
- We offer flexible working with opportunities to work full-time, part-time, Term Time Only, hybrid (mix of virtual, home and face to face)
- 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
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
- Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
- Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
- Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
- Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
See Job description for more detail.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
- Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
- Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
- Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
- Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
See Job description for more detail.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Degree level qualification
- 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
Other job requirements
Essential
- Is able to independently travel across the city, carrying all necessary equipment safely
- Is able to deliver interventions at various heights and locations according to clients needs
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- oCompetent in using evidence base to inform clinical decisions and best practice in specialist clinical area
- oKnowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
- oCompetent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
- oExperience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oSignificant experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
- Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oExperience of delivering successful/effective training to a range of qualified professionals in the area of specialism
Personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies
- oAbility to reflect on clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Degree level qualification
- 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
Other job requirements
Essential
- Is able to independently travel across the city, carrying all necessary equipment safely
- Is able to deliver interventions at various heights and locations according to clients needs
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- oCompetent in using evidence base to inform clinical decisions and best practice in specialist clinical area
- oKnowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
- oCompetent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
- oExperience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oSignificant experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
- Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oExperience of delivering successful/effective training to a range of qualified professionals in the area of specialism
Personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies
- oAbility to reflect on clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
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).
