Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading children's healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join their community clinics. The role involves supporting children with language and speech sound disorders, providing assessment, therapy, and parent training. Ideal candidates will have relevant qualifications and experience. A strong benefits package awaits at this friendly and supportive workplace.

Benefits

Outstanding benefits package

Access to CPD courses

Research opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience as a Speech & Language Therapist with an emphasis on community clinics.
• Ability to work in a variety of locations and deliver digital therapy.
• Skills in providing assessments and therapy to children.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assessment and therapy to a small caseload of children.
• Provide parent training through workshops.
• Travel to various community locations throughout the week.

Skills

Experience with early language and speech sound disorders

Ability to provide therapy and assessment

Skills in delivering parent training workshops

Education

Relevant Speech & Language Therapy qualification

Job description

Overview

The Community Speech & Language Therapy team at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust works across the localities of Sefton and Liverpool, and as part of our development, we have a vacancy for Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapists based in Liverpool.

We are looking for an experienced therapist to join our community clinics and a language resource base to support children and young people with early language and speech sound disorders.

About the post

This is a specialist post, with support from a range of highly specialist speech and language therapists, and access to external CPD courses and opportunities to undertake research encouraged.

This post is based in the community, and so there is an expectation that the successful candidate will be able to travel to, and between various locations throughout the week. The successful candidate will continue to develop their specialist knowledge and skills in the areas of early language development, developmental language disorder and speech sound disorders, providing assessment and therapy to a small caseload of children in clinic and one of our language resources.

The team also deliver parent training through workshops and provide face to face and digital therapy in groups and individually.

In addition to this, first assessments, delivering parent training through workshops and provide face to face and digital therapy in groups is also included within the job plan for this post.

About Alder Hey

Alder Hey Children\'s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. Inaddition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, incollaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics.

Benefits

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including