Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 8 months (Fixed Term Contract/Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 820-7392060-CF
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Citywide
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
*Please note that this post will close once sufficient applicants have been received so may closed before the advertised closing date. Please submit your application as soon as possible*
Are you an innovative Occupational Therapist or 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 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. The post holder will also be required to input activity into the IT system.
- 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 at least to a level 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
Essential criteria
- • A First degree level qualification plus post graduate qualification relevant in SLT
- • 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
Desirable criteria
- • Post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia
- • Trained in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
- • Trained in NAS EarlyBird
- • Trained in PECS
Experience
Essential criteria
- • 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 complexcaseload 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
Essential criteria
- • 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.
Desirable criteria
- • Able to develop specialist programmes of care & explain them to carers and staff.
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- • Is able to deliver a number of contacts across the working week across a range of settings
- • Is able and willing to move around the city.
- • Is able to carry a variety of equipment between locations safely.
- • Is able to work at various heights and locations according to needs of clients
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Pountney
- Job title
- Neurodevelopmental Pathway Clinical Specialist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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