Children's Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established NHS Trust is seeking a dedicated Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to join their Complex Needs team. This role focuses on delivering assessments and interventions for early years children with social communication differences, providing crucial support to families and colleagues. You will work within a friendly and experienced team, benefiting from ongoing professional development and mentorship. The position involves travel to various sites in Salford, ensuring that all children receive timely and effective therapeutic interventions. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to enhancing community health and making a meaningful impact in children's lives.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Annual leave allowance

Health and wellbeing activities

Professional development support

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering assessments and interventions for children.
• Ability to work collaboratively with parents and staff.

Responsibilities

• Support children with social communication differences.
• Produce reports on assessments and child needs.
• Deliver training to parents and staff.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Social Communication Assessment

Intervention Delivery

Evidence-based Practice

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Children’s Speech and Language Therapist to cover a maternity leave within our Complex Needs team, which includes social communication. The role will involve the delivery of social communication assessments and interventions with early years aged children and the delivery of training to parents/carers and colleagues. You will be part of a well-established and experienced group of SLTs, and the role will be based within clinic and home settings in Salford.

Salford Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service provides CPD, supervision, support, and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service. You will be part of a large, friendly, supportive team who are passionate about ensuring that all children and families receive appropriate and timely therapeutic and preventative interventions that aim to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Due to the nature of the post, you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Key Responsibilities:

• Working collaboratively with parents/carers and setting staff to support children with social communication differences.
• Producing reports outlining the findings of the assessments and child/young person's needs and next steps (including for statutory purposes, e.g. EHCP assessments).
• Delivering interventions and modelling strategies.
• Demonstrating clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Supporting the development and delivery of training packages to parents/carers and setting staff.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.