Job summary
- Main area
- Children's Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-7408717-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Monkmoor Campus
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children's SLT Team and Clinical Lead Early Years Complex Care
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking to develop your clinical and team leadership skills?
This role provides an opportunity to lead the early years complex needs service across Shropshire Telford and Wrekin and to contribute to longer term planning for the ongoing design of service delivery. These might include; developing an all ages (0-19) complex needs support service to mainstream schools, or a place based wider early years speech, language and communication needs service supporting HVs and Family Hubs.
This is an exciting time to come and work with us as we move into Year 2 of ELSEC; taking the learning and spirit of success from Year 1.
If you are interested in shaping the future, working with parents and partners to consider how best to meet the needs of children and young people, their parents and education practitioners in innovative ways please do call us to find out more.
The balance of the role in relation to direct clinical and leadership time will be negotiated with the successful candidate.
Systems are in place for effective professional support across Children's Therapy Teams and the Child Development Centres. Our commitment to personal development, training, including to Advanced Clinical Practice, peer review and supervision are important to us. The successful applicant will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post across Shropshire and Telford. We welcome applications from SLTs seeking flexible working.
Main duties of the job
To be part of the management and clinical leadership team developing, delivering, and evaluating the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service in line with the agreed service specifications determined by Commissioners.
To provide clinical leadership for the service for young Children with Complex Speech, Language and Communication Needs.
To work in close partnership with parent/carers, professionals, and organisations to deliver a model of care, which makes a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities in access to services.
To be responsible for all issues relating to clinical practice together with other Team and Clinical Leads within the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Team and relevant managers of Children’s Services.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for disclosure to be made to the Criminal Records Bureau to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Training and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Holds Health Professionals Council license to practice as a Speech and Language Therapist
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist courses up to Master’s degree. Or ▪ Advanced experiential training within specialism.
- Qualification in management studies or similar, e.g. Leadership in Clinical Excellence or experience that would equate to first level (willing to undertake training)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience at a highly specialist or advanced practitioner level in Speech and Language Therapy for Children and Young People with severe and complex needs including developmental needs and autism and of caseload management
- Demonstrable evidence of continued professional development in assessing the needs of young children with complex speech, language and communication difficulties, and in developing and implementing effective care.
- Evidence of some experience of risk assessment and management.
- Experience at post graduate level of delivering and evaluating relevant training and coaching programmes. ▪ Budget management experience (willing to undertake training). ▪ Experience of implementing change management techniques.
- Experience of implementing change management techniques.
- Budget management experience (willing to undertake training).
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- IT skills and computer literacy
- High level of understanding of current professional issues
- Facilitative styles of leadership
- Understanding of professional education and Annual Appraisal review process
- Ability to analyse complex data and present findings.
- Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research.
- Demonstrate knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to young Children’s Speech and Language Therapy, and to children and young people’s education, including Safeguarding.
- Line management experience and knowledge of HR policies and procedures.
Requirement due to working environment
Essential criteria
- Be able to make travel arrangements to meet the requirements of the post
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
- Alison Parkinson
- Job title
- Clinical Services Manager Child Therapies and CDCs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07767886214
- Additional information
01743 450800 option 4
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