Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust; Nuneaton; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Special School team in Warwickshire. The post-holder will work with children aged 4–19 with a range of speech, language and communication needs, and may develop a dysphagia caseload.

Location in Warwickshire is to be arranged on appointment, with some flexibility. You will join a supportive, multidisciplinary team led by a lead SLT for the designated school and will have access to

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with Speech, Language and Communication needs.
• Qualified or working towards dysphagia caseload desirable.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team in special schools.

Responsibilities

• Independently assess and manage speech, language and communication needs of children attending special schools in Warwickshire.
• Deliver training to parents, school staff and other professionals.
• Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for a highly complex caseload of children aged 4–19 years with diverse needs.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Leadership

Training delivery

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Job description

We are looking for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our Special School team, where the post-holder would be based in Warwickshire's generic special schools spending along with other SLT colleagues and members of the multi-disciplinary team. Being qualified to or working towards holding a dysphagia caseload is desirable.

Location in Warwickshire to be arranged on appointment - there is some flexibility.

The post-holder should have enthusiasm for and experience of working with children with Speech, Language, and Communication needs, including those with an associated learning difficulty and/or other diagnoses. This post gives opportunity to develop leadership as well as clinical skills.

The post holder will be part of a supportive team including a lead SLT for the designated school. Access to supervision and CPD is provided.

• To independently assess and manage the speech, language and communication needs of children attending special schools in Warwickshire.
• To deliver training to parents, school staff and other professionals.
• Exercise full responsibility and autonomy for a highly complex caseload of children with special needs aged 4–19 years attending special schools with a wide range of speech language and communication disorders and/or Dysphagia needs, seeking support from the lead clinician for the special school as needed.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Liz Shaw Job title: Team Lead Email address: [e-mail]