Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist (Band 7) to join the Neurodevelopmental Team across Birmingham. You will assess and support children with social communication difficulties and complex needs, working in a multidisciplinary environment with education and local authority partners.

Strong clinical and caseload management skills, excellent communication, and commitment to CPD are essential; we support development through

Qualifications

• Highly motivated and committed therapist with holistic, client-centred practice.
• Strong clinical and caseload management skills.
• Excellent communication and team working abilities.
• Willingness to work across multiple locations and some virtual assessments.

Responsibilities

• Assess and support children with social communication difficulties and autism.
• Evaluate and develop intervention plans as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Offer supervision and support to junior team members and students.
• Utilise standardised assessments within a multi-disciplinary framework.

Skills

Clinical skills

Caseload management

Teamwork

IT literacy

Autism assessment interest

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

HCPC registered

Job description

• This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
  
  

• This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
  
  

Are you an innovative Speech and Language Therapist, excited about a new way of working within the NHS? Or 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 therapist with skills in holistic, client-centred practice, for a post at Band 7.

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.

To make effective use of our mobile working technology and IT systems, you will also have good IT skills.

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on Clinical Supervision and CPD to support your development. We have robust supervision arrangements through our team of Senior Therapists and AHP Leads.

Be Part of Our Team...

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 and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab 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 best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie Pountney & Melissa Samuels Job title: Service Clinical Manager Email address: [e-mail]