Job summary
The Children's Therapy Services identify, assess, support and manage the health needs of children and young people aged 0-18 years, working closely with children and their families in health settings and family homes; and with education colleagues in early years and school settings. The Children's Therapy services cover Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Services are offered in various parts of these localities to facilitate easy access for families.
This is an exciting role to work in a friendly and supportive team, combining the opportunity to provide clinical & leadership expertise to a team of enthusiastic & dedicated SLT's, alongside supporting children with speech, language & communication needs.
You will be leading the North Somerset School Age Team & be the Developmental Language Disorder Lead across BNSSG. You will work closely with locality School & Early Years Team Leads & Clinical Leads across BNSSG. Your role will be to develop the Service & provide supervision, teaching, advice, and consultation across the BNSSG area, enhancing the quality of care provided to children & families.
In this role, you will provide expert clinical support to children with speech, language & communication difficulties at Primary and Secondary age. You will be responsible for managing a highly specialist caseload, offering your expertise in assessing, supporting, & managing children with speech, language and communication needs.
Main duties of the job
* To practise as a highly specialist clinical practitioner, being a source of expertise, providing support, supervision, teaching, advice and consultation across BNSSG. To offer highly specialist clinical expertise within the specified clinical area of developmental language disorder, and to carry own highly specialist case load within a specified clinical area.
* You will collaborate with Professional Leads to manage the Speech & Language Therapy Service.
* You will have line management responsibilities of some staff and be responsible for holding team meetings.
* You will support the overview of locality performance on RTTs and EHCP targets.
* You will be working with Operational Leads & data teams on EMIS optimisation.
* To provide clinical and day to day leadership for a therapy discipline within a designated locality and be a first point of contact for the team for queries and concerns.
* To use discretion in the interpretation of departmental policies. This may include decision making on queries raised by the locality team members around aspects of policy implementation. Post-holder would refer significant queries to relevant Professional Lead.
* To support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with accountability and responsibility for the activity, performance, outcomes and clinical governance of the designated therapy team in the locality.
* Support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with recruitment including interviewing and induction for new recruits.
About us
We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it's about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.
At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.
Benefits:
We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more! Please see the benefits leaflet attached to this advert for details.
We offer NHS Agenda for Change (AfC) salary including annual leave supplement, Stakeholder pension, a range of health and wellbeing incentives, high street discounts, plus much more!
Date posted
28 February 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
083-7036316-WW
Job locations
BNSSG
Eastgate House
Bristol
BS5 6XX
Job description Job responsibilities
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full list of requirements before applying to this position.
Person Specification Experience & Skills Essential
* Experience of project / service improvement work
* Experience of line management
* Ability to interpret professional standards and guidelines and relate them to clinical service delivery
* Experience of working collaboratively with Local Authority and Education partners, either at a leadership level or at a clinical level
Desirable
* Experience of initiating, implementing and managing change and service improvement
* Previous experience in Clinical Specialist role
Qualifications Essential
* Degree level qualification recognised by Professional Governing Body (Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists/Chartered Society of Physiotherapists/ Royal College of Occupational Therapists)
* HCPC Registration
* Evidence of Master Level post qualification accredited training and participation in ongoing regular CPD in area of clinical specialism (e.g. Bobath training, Post-grad accredited Dysphagia training)
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name: Sirona care & health CIC
Address:
BNSSG
Eastgate House
Bristol
BS5 6XX
Employer's website: https://www.sirona-cic.org.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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