Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Annualised hours
- Job ref
- 150-CP1550-PC-A
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bicentennial Building
- Town
- Chichester
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
(Graduating) Speech & Language Therapist
Band 5
Job overview
The Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service has vacancy at Band 5 for a therapist seeking their first post, or an opportunity to extend their experience and skills further at this level. We can offer a full or part time position (a minimum of 0.6 WTE) based from our team hubs in Chichester and covering the areas to the south and west of West Sussex.
Our current vacancy offers the opportunity to gain a broad range of experience in Early Years Community Clinics and Mainstream Schools.
This is an ideal post to help you transition from student to therapist and develop a wide range of therapeutic skills to carry forward into your career. During your preceptorship year, clinical time will be reduced to allow a regular session for B5 development activities. Well-structured supervision arrangements enable you to draw upon the wealth of experience within the wider team.
For more details of this post, please see the accompanying documentation:
- job description and person specification
- “Day in the life”
- Additional information
If you would like an informal chat with one of our clinical leads or the operational team lead, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Main duties of the job
Our Speech and Language Therapy service is jointly funded by Health and Education and has a service specification that is broadly divided into Early Years and Schools. We use a universal, targeted and specialist approach focused on enabling the best possible communication between parents, carers and setting staff and the children and young people in their care.
You will work as part of a supportive and friendly team to:
Assess children’s speech language and communication needs (SLCN) and the functional impact of these
Advise families and settings on how they can help reduce this impact and facilitate communication skills
Provide individual or group therapy, demonstrating to parents/carers and setting staff how they can use strategies and techniques
Train parents/carers and setting staff so that they are empowered to identify and manage their child’s communication needs.
Write Reports and Intervention Plans, sharing information and setting targets with parents/carers and setting staff
Measure the success of your actions and report your outcomes
Maintain your clinical and professional development to be the best therapist you can be and progress in your career
Be part of clinical networks to ensure practice is evidence based and current.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To assess and provide therapeutic input to children and young people with communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties.
To manage a caseload independently and to manage service priorities and client needs.
To assist in the organisation of caseloads within the scope of the post with support from other speech and language therapists and/or relevant Clinical Lead, advising SLT Operational Team Lead of shortfalls and difficulties as they arise.
Manage clinical risk within own caseload, and generate strategies for caseload management.
Adapt practice to meet the individual circumstances, having regard to cultural and linguistic differences. Ensure that the child/young person and parent/ carers are involved in planning and decision making relevant to therapy intervention.
To provide accurate and timely statistics as required by Speech and Language Therapy and Sussex Community Foundation Trust
To provide all clinical practice in line with HCPC Standards of Proficiency and RCSLT clinical guidelines, ratified local policies and with due regard to evidence based practice.
Any other duties in line with the band and scope of the post
Please see attached job description and person specification for more details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree
- HCPC registration applied for
Desirable criteria
- RCSLT membership
Experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate well with people with communication difficulties
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level.
- Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to children with speech/language and communication difficulties
- Experience of evaluating research material to identify efficacy of therapeutic methods
- Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills.
- Good presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Good organisational skills
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Car owner/driver or suitable alternative
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rebecca Stainton-Ellis
- Job title
- Operational Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 696011
- Additional information
Jo Sainsbury - [email protected] (Early Years Clinical Lead)
Cindy Metcalfe- [email protected] (Mainstream Clinical Lead)
Or call 01273 696011 ext 5108, and you will be put in contact with a member of the team who can respond to your query.
01273 696011 x5108
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