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.
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.
Join Our Department At This Exciting Time:
* 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 offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.
* 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.
* We have strong links with Universities and are committed to student education.
* We have great access to IT: laptops and mobile phones provided as routine.
For further information about our department follow the link below:
Children's SLT Department
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Lisa Abba
Job title: Service Clinical Manager
Email address: lisa.abba1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07872420670
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