Job summary
Band 6 Children's EDS (Dysphagia) Speech and Language Therapist
Come and join our Eating Drinking and Swallowing team .
Are you passionate about EDS, MDT working in order to achieve functional outcomes for children, enabling parents and the wider workforce ?
If so come and join us!
It's an exciting time !It's our first year of delivering a new SLT EDS model designed to improve outcomes for children and their families, improve waiting times and integrated working as well as support staff development and wellbeing.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job:
Successful candidates will have opportunity to:
- Manage your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Eating Drinking and Swallowing difficulties, including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support the child to achieve functional outcomes
- Deliver care, face to face and virtually, across a range of locations including education settings, children's centres, family hubs, health centres and family homes
- Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff
- Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with EDS needs
- Work alongside the MDT and work in localities developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
About us
Join our department at this exciting time:
We offer flexible working with opportunities to work full-time, part-time, Term Time Only, hybrid (mix of virtual, home and face to face) 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.
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 are strongly committed to anti-racism, equality and diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity in our workforce to better serve our communities
We have strong links with Universities and are committed to student education We have great access to IT: laptops and mobile phones provided as routine
Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
See Job description for more detail. Please note the JD and PS is very generic for all our B6 posts so does not refer specifically to EDS.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
See Job description for more detail. Please note the JD and PS is very generic for all our B6 posts so does not refer specifically to EDS.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Degree level qualification
- 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
Other job requirements
Essential
- Is able to independently travel across the city, carrying all necessary equipment safely
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- oCompetent in using evidence base to inform clinical decisions and best practice in specialist clinical area
- oKnowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
- oCompetent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
- oExperience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oSignificant 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
- Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oExperience of delivering successful/effective training to a range of qualified professionals in the area of specialism
Personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies
- oAbility to reflect on clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- A Degree level qualification
- 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
Other job requirements
Essential
- Is able to independently travel across the city, carrying all necessary equipment safely
Skills/knowledge
Essential
- oCompetent in using evidence base to inform clinical decisions and best practice in specialist clinical area
- oKnowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
- oCompetent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
- oCompetent in using electronic systems relevant to practice in the Trust and in the clinical area
Experience
Essential
- oExperience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
- oExperience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- oSignificant 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
- Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- oExperience of delivering successful/effective training to a range of qualified professionals in the area of specialism
Personal qualities
Essential
- oAbility to prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies
- oAbility to reflect on clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
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).
