Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider as a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. This role offers the chance to work within a dynamic Neurodevelopmental Team, providing essential support to children with social communication difficulties. You will engage in innovative practices, collaborating with professionals from various disciplines to deliver personalized care. With a commitment to reducing health inequalities, this organization fosters an inclusive environment where your contributions will significantly impact the community. If you are passionate about making a difference in children's lives and thrive in a supportive atmosphere, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Full NHS terms and conditions

Extensive holidays

Attractive relocation payment

Discounts for local and national retailers

Dedicated well-being services

Flexible working options

Qualifications

• Qualified Speech and Language Therapist with HCPC registration.
• Experience in working with children with communication difficulties.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessment and therapy for children with communication difficulties.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to support client outcomes.

Skills

Communication Skills

Clinical Assessment

Teamwork

Client-Centered Practice

Holistic Approach

Cultural Competence

Education

HCPC Licence to practice

Full Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities

Tools

Communicate in Print

Job description

Find out more about applying to join Team BCHC.

Join our team

Community services are a key part of the NHS of the future. Be part of that future now. Join us and help achieve better care and healthier communities.

Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Band 6

Main area: Speech and Language
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (to cover Maternity leave)
Hours: Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref: 820-6767146-CF-C

Site: Citywide Town Birmingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 31/01/2025 23:59

Job overview

Are you an innovative Speech and Language Therapist, excited about a new way of working within the NHS? Are you interested in Neurodevelopmental Conditions and looking for a new challenge?

• Are you passionate about working with children?
• Do you enjoy the prospect of working in a specialised environment?
• Do you want the opportunity to be part of a friendly and supportive Multidisciplinary Team?
• Do you want to work in a vibrant city with a range of multicultural communities and be part of an inclusive Trust which is keen to reduce health inequalities?

If you are looking for an exciting role, we want to meet you!

Come and join us to work within a fast developing, dynamic and pioneering Neurodevelopmental (ND) Team across the city of Birmingham, working alongside a range of professionals, including children’s therapy, clinical psychology and medical colleagues, education and local authority partners.

We are looking for highly motivated and committed therapists with skills in holistic, client-centred practice, for a post at Band 6.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will be offering, evaluating and developing assessment and support of children with social communication difficulties and profound and multiple difficulties in a multi-disciplinary team. You will offer support to more junior team members and students. You will be trained to use a wide range of standardised assessments as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.
You will have strong clinical and caseload management skills and a passion for working with children with SEND, with a specific interest in the assessment and diagnosis of Autism. You will have proven experience of successfully working with a range of clients, their families and others in order for the child to achieve meaningful outcomes. You will have excellent communication and team working skills. You will be willing to work in a full range of locations across the city of Birmingham, including child development centres, education settings and family homes, as well as undertaking some assessments virtually.

Working for our organisation

Be Part of Our Team...

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To identify and plan appropriate SLT intervention including assessment and delivering therapy in groups and one-to-one sessions, in accordance with SLT service agreed packages of care and pathways.
• To provide appropriate treatment and evaluate outcomes with a full range of clients including complex clients.
• To use highly developed communication skills to explain complex information from clinical assessment and therapy outcomes to clients, carers and multidisciplinary team members.
• To assess, diagnose and treat children with a range of communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties, making appropriate clinical decisions independently with support for highly complex clients.
• To make differential diagnosis of specialist and diverse cases with access to supervision for highly complex cases.
• To record and maintain up-to-date clinical case notes in line with professional standards and Trust, professional and departmental policies.
• To complete timely, accurate written and electronic records of patient’s care, maintaining service standards and following departmental clinical record keeping guidelines.
• To share specialist knowledge with colleagues at a local level including offering additional specialist experience and providing observation sessions for others.
• To access Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists for support such as second opinions for highly complex cases as necessary.
• To contribute to evaluating and updating packages of care and pathways used within the SLT Service.
• To identify and access appropriate Continuous Professional Development to meet Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Health and Care Professions Council requirements and to practice reflective learning.
• To use keyboard skills to produce customised treatment plans and materials and effectively manage mobile device to access client records, emails and other aspects of electronic communication.
• To manage infection control risks including those from bodily fluids.
• To write reports containing highly complex, confidential and sensitive information which may be used in a legal context.
• To undertake reviews of evidence to underpin current practice.
• Undertake other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.

Person specification

Qualifications

• HCPC Licence to practice
• Full Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
• Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialist area, e.g. ASD, dysphagia, fluency, SLI.
• Trained in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
• Trained in NAS EarlyBird
• Trained in PECS

Experience

• Significant experience as a qualified therapist of diagnostic assessment in any one of the following areas: ASD, dysphagia, fluency or SLI as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working as a qualified therapist in a range of pre-school multi-disciplinary settings.
• Significant experience of delivering clinical support and supervision to less experienced Speech and Language Therapists and/or SLT assistants.
• Significant experience as a qualified therapist of managing a mixed and complex caseload across a number of settings including Early years settings and clients’ homes.
• Demonstrates high awareness of safeguarding issues and processes.
• Significant experience as a qualified therapist of successful multi-agency working with families and stakeholders in Local Authority and Health settings.
• Specialist management of a diverse caseload, as a qualified therapist, having provided support to other professionals.
• Significant experience of using augmentative communication e.g. Makaton signing, symbols, communication aids.
• Experience of delivering successful/effective training to other professionals.

Skills

• Able to use evidence base to inform clinical decision-making around complex presentations in specialist clinical area.
• Able to work with a range of families in a culturally and socially diverse area.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to explain complex ideas in a simple way. Able to write clear reports and notes to a professional standard.
• Able to use signing and communication aids where appropriate.
• IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes e.g. Communicate in Print.
• Able to develop specialist programmes of care & explain them to carers and staff.

Other Job Requirements

• Able to deliver a number of contacts across the working week across a range of settings.
• Able and willing to move around the city.
• Able to carry a variety of equipment between locations safely.
• Able to work at various heights and locations according to needs of clients.

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, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.

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 as possible.

We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.

Promoting Workforce Equality

In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.

The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.

Flexible Working

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.

In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!

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.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust
3, Priestley Wharf
Holt Street
Birmingham Science Park
B7 4BN

Office hours: Monday to Friday: 8.30 am - 5.00 pm

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