Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Main area: Children and Young People's Gender Service
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 387-WC-7239-NG
Site: Bristol Royal Hospital For Children
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa or pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/03/2025 23:59
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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join a specialist multi-disciplinary team, providing holistic assessment and appropriate intervention to children and young people with gender incongruence and their families. The Children and Young People’s Gender Service has been commissioned by NHS England to provide a service consistent with the recommendations and service specification following the Cass Review.
This post offers the opportunity to work across a variety of settings to provide a comprehensive Speech and Language Therapy service on an out-patient and outreach basis including community and school liaison, both virtually and in-person, and will at times involve travel. As part of the team, the SALT will provide specialist assessment and advice, consultation, liaison with families, and local therapy and external agencies involved in the care of children and young people with gender incongruence and where appropriate other co-occurring conditions.
As a new and developing service, we are now seeking to recruit a team of Allied Health Professionals which will include colleagues from Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy alongside Speech and Language Therapy. The post holder will therefore have the exciting chance to be part of building this innovative and evolving service in collaboration with colleagues from these allied disciplines.
Main duties of the job
Job Purpose
1. To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service for children and young people referred to the CYP Gender Service.
2. To work within a multi-disciplinary team and have professional links with SALT in UBHW.
3. To provide highly specialist assessment of CYP’s communication strengths and needs in their functional environments.
4. To differentially diagnose and identify co-existing speech, language and communication needs.
5. To provide recommendations and guidance for intervention.
6. To provide therapy to develop CYP's authentic communication style.
7. To champion the CYP's voice, keeping them central to the care they receive at the service.
8. To assess the CYP's communication strengths and needs in their functional environments.
9. To work collaboratively with locally-based Speech and Language Therapists.
10. To engage in governance activities including audit and outcome measures to ensure service quality.
11. To work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary team for assessment, formulation, and intervention.
Person specification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working with children and young people (CYP) with social and communication difficulties.
* Knowledge and experience of working with CYP who may have co-existing mental health diagnoses like anxiety disorders.
* Knowledge and skills with Educational Health Care plans (EHCP) and Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND).
* Experience in working with Neurodiverse Children and Young People.
* Highly developed experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
* Specialist knowledge of voice quality maintenance.
* Experience of working within community settings.
Skills and Abilities
* Ability to review and reflect on own skills and knowledge and to lead own CPD in conjunction with supervisors and peers.
* Ability to use a full range of diagnostic assessments, formal and informal, appropriate for this patient population.
* Demonstrate highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of paediatric patients.
* Ability to recognise own professional boundaries and accept support/seek advice as appropriate.
* Knowledge of clinical governance and audit.
* Competent Information Technology skills, including use of MS Office tools, Outlook, Word, Excel.
* Ability to work independently and prioritise caseload.
* Responsibility for own decision making whilst working closely within an MDT.
Qualifications and Training
* Recognised degree in speech and language therapy.
* Registration with HCPC.
* Registered member of RCSLT.
* Evidence of significant post-graduate CPD.
* Active member of relevant clinical excellence networks (CENs).
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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