A Vacancy at University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
Job Purpose
To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service for children and young people referred to the CYP Gender Service. The post holder will work within in a multi disciplinary team and have professional links with SALT in UBHW.
To provide highly specialist assessment of CYP’s communication strengths and needs in their functional environments.
To differentially diagnose and identify co-existing speech, language and communication need.
To provide recommendations and guidance for intervention.
To provide therapy to develop CYPs authentic communication style.
To champion the CYPs voice, keeping them central to the care they receive at the service.
To assess the CYPs communication strengths and needs in their functional environments
To differentially diagnose and identify co-existing speech, language and communication needs if necessary to support access to the gender service
To champion the CYPs voice, keeping them central to the care they receive at the service.
To work collaboratively with locally-based Speech and Language Therapists
To engage in governance activities including audit, outcome measures to ensure service quality
To work collaboratively within the multi-disciplinary for assessment, formulation and intervention.
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward- thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Mar 2025
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