Job summary
Do you have established clinical and leadership skills or the aptitude and passion to develop these in a dynamic working environment?
Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents and supporting your SaLT team to deliver on this?
We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to cover maternity leave in our friendly and forward-thinking community team. Actingas Special Schools Coordinator, you will support and advocate for children with SLCN in special schools across the city and coordinate the work of the SaLTs working in special schools.
We deliver clinical excellence through evidence-based practice.We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.
It's an exciting time for the service! We have just started our third year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System framework. We're working in partnership with families, the Local Authority, individual schools and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels.
Main duties of the job
You will:
- Work with a Highly Specialist B7 SLT in Special Education to provide Clinical supervision and support for the staff working in special schools,
- Coordinate and support a team of SLTAs, NQPs and experienced SaLTs to deliver clinical care to school-age children with SLCN in special schools across the city,
- Be supported to manage waiting lists and allocation of resource,
- Work with the other School-Age Coordinators to develop best practice to this population across the city,
- Be part of the service level management team shaping the direction of the SaLT service in Birmingham,
- Build local networks and contribute to new ways of working in collaboration with the wider stakeholders,
- Support the staff in your team to work in ways which optimise impact and deliver on outcomes.
About us
- The SaLT service works as part of Inclusion Services within the Children and Families Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We work across the whole city, within a range of community and educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.
- We value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development, and we welcome and value new ideas and experiences.
- We offer a supportive working environment with access to specialist clinical support, and an emphasis on sharing good practice through effective team working.
- For further information about our department follow the link below:
http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/childrens-slt
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for detail. Key duties include:
To take responsibility for ensuring commissioner-led service delivery and management of waiting list and active caseloads in designated local or clinical area.
Demonstrate clinical leadership and represent the local team/service area in all appropriate meetings to support the planning and development of quality services in local designated area in an integrated partnership model.
Linking in with regional and national colleagues via networks to benchmark best practice, build professional networks and bring practice back to the service to contribute to service planning within the specialist area.
To provide Speech and Language Therapy at a highly specialist level, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children and young people known to the service.
Job description
Job responsibilities
See Job Description for detail. Key duties include:
To take responsibility for ensuring commissioner-led service delivery and management of waiting list and active caseloads in designated local or clinical area.
Demonstrate clinical leadership and represent the local team/service area in all appropriate meetings to support the planning and development of quality services in local designated area in an integrated partnership model.
Linking in with regional and national colleagues via networks to benchmark best practice, build professional networks and bring practice back to the service to contribute to service planning within the specialist area.
To provide Speech and Language Therapy at a highly specialist level, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children and young people known to the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oFirst degree level qualification, relevant to service area
- oHCPC Licence to practice
- oFull Membership of Professional body , relevant to service area
- oEvidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialist area, including accessing relevant clinical supervision
- oRelevant training in clinical leadership
Desirable
- Relevant training in specialist areas: Makaton, AAC training etc
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
- oExtensive experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oSignificant experience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oRelevant experience of using leadership skills for service development
- oSignificant experience in providing support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
Skills
Essential
- oKnowledge of the national and political agenda influencing health services and specific service area
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
- . Competent in collecting and analysing data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- oFirst degree level qualification, relevant to service area
- oHCPC Licence to practice
- oFull Membership of Professional body , relevant to service area
- oEvidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialist area, including accessing relevant clinical supervision
- oRelevant training in clinical leadership
Desirable
- Relevant training in specialist areas: Makaton, AAC training etc
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
- oExtensive experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oSignificant experience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oRelevant experience of using leadership skills for service development
- oSignificant experience in providing support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
Skills
Essential
- oKnowledge of the national and political agenda influencing health services and specific service area
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
- . Competent in collecting and analysing data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
