Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist

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Employer: Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: Community locations in Birmingham

Town: Birmingham

Salary: £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 23/03/2025 23:59

Job Overview

Come and join our Childrens SaLT team in Birmingham: a vibrant multicultural city! Are you a newly qualified SLT? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, and enabling education staff and parents as part of The Balanced System approach?

If so, come and join us!

It's An Exciting Time For The Service

• Community SaLT teams working in localities developing local networks and building skills in the wider workforce.
• A SEND locality therapy agenda to integrate education and Local Authority and early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
• We are in our second year of delivering a Balanced System approach to support children with SLCN; working in partnership with families and a wide range of stakeholders.

Join our SaLT team!

• We offer excellent preceptorship support for NQPs with regular individual and group sessions & access to Specialists.
• We offer flexible working options, delivering care face to face and virtually, in education settings, clinics, family homes, and out in the community.

We aim to make our interviews as accessible as possible. Please contact us for more information about the reasonable adjustments you may require during your interview.

Main duties of the job

Successful Candidates Will Have Opportunity To:

• Manage your own caseload of children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) including assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, using an enabling model to support functional outcomes, and responding flexibly to the highest areas of need.
• Use existing skills or be supported to develop skills in working with children with eating and drinking difficulties.
• Work alongside education, Local Authority, and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with SLCN.
• Work within a locality to develop networks, build skills in the wider workforce, and increase the impact of our interventions.

Join Our Department At This Exciting Time

• The SLT service works as part of Inclusion Services within the Children and Families Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We work across the whole City, within a range of community and educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.
• We have an experienced team committed to taking NQPs through preceptorship, and a culture of ongoing learning and clinical supervision. Those who join the eating and drinking team will have access to post-graduate training.
• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide Speech and Language Therapy, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support the early identification of need.
• To support partners in implementing the Balanced System across the 3 levels (universal, targeted, and specialist) and 5 strands (family support, workforce, environment, identification, and intervention) of the approach.
• Managing your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) and eating and drinking difficulties including assessment, diagnosis, and intervention.
• Offering intervention in the environment most appropriate to client needs including schools and preschool settings in your locality, clinics, and patient homes.
• Developing professional skills through a range of CPD activities.
• Work as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
• Enable and empower staff, parents/caregivers to identify children's needs and provide strategies to help at the earliest opportunity.
• Provide training and bespoke coaching to children and young people, early years/ school staff and parents/caregivers.
• Consult and work collaboratively with children and young people, parents, caregivers and school staff to problem solve functional difficulties.
• Participate in meetings with staff from the wider SEND locality teams, as required, to support early identification of need.
• Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members.

Person specification

Skills/Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to generate written communication, which is relevant, concise, accurate and legible.
• Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from minority groups.

Desirable criteria

• Has knowledge of assessment, diagnosis and intervention strategies of a wide range of clinical areas covered by degree.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree level qualification, relevant to service area (SLT).
• HCPC registration, Full Membership of Professional body.
• Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities.

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant experience in therapeutic settings.
• Relevant evidence of application of the therapy process during practice placement in paediatrics and community.

Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme

BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible.

Benefits Of Working For Us

• Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements.
• Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
• Discounts for local and national retailers.
• Dedicated well-being services for all employees.
• Flexible working where possible.