Job summary
Make a real difference in the lives of school-aged children with dysphagia!
Are you a dynamic and experienced Speech and Language Therapist specialising in dysphagia? Do you thrive in a collaborative and supportive environment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our dedicated team working with school-aged children across diverse settings.
About the role:
This rewarding role offers the chance to provide highly specialist assessment and management of dysphagia in school-aged children within mainstream and special schools, clinics, and patient homes. You will work closely with families, educational colleagues, and a multidisciplinary team to deliver exceptional care. With additional opportunities to maintain knowledge and skills in working with pre-school children with speech, language and communication needs.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
Provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for children and young people with dysphagia as well as maintaining skills and knowledge with working with children with SLCN.
Support parents, clients and other professionals in all aspects of client management.
Liaise effectively with the multidisciplinary team.
Provide clinical supervision and line management to other SLTs.
Contribute to service development initiatives, including policies, procedures and care pathways.
Deliver training to staff and families in various settings.
Essential Requirements:
Experience in paediatric dysphagia (RCSLT dysphagia competencies Level C or above).
Experience working with school-aged children.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
About us
Just as we care about our patients' well-being, we care about yours!
What We Offer:
Impactful Work: Make a tangible difference in the lives of children with eating, drinking, and swallowing disorders.
Professional Growth: Enhance your leadership and clinical supervision skills, contribute to service development projects, and implement evidence-based practice.
Supportive Environment: Benefit from regular 1:1 clinical supervision, peer supervision, and a cross-service dysphagia journal club. Work within innovative and motivated teams in a supportive and progressive environment.
Commitment to EDI: Be part of a service with an active diversity and inclusion ethos, where equity, diversity, and inclusion are integral to our service delivery and staff support.
Collaboration and Training: Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, provide training to staff and families, and contribute to the development of policies, procedures and care pathways.
Opportunities for Leadership: Provide clinical supervision and line management to other SLTs, contributing to the training and development of junior dysphagia therapists.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to Job Description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised SLT degree or equivalent
- Health Care Professionals Council Licence to Practice
- Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT
- Evidence of competency level C or above of the RCSLT Dysphagia Competency Framework
Desirable
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Masters degree or equivalent
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)
- Advanced dysphagia qualification /post graduate paediatric dysphagia training e.g. Manchester Post Basic Dysphagia Course
- Evidence of completion of highly specialist short courses in dysphagia management
Experience
Essential
- Post graduate paediatric dysphagia experience (4 years) including non-oral feeding
- In-depth experience within specialist area/area of service delivery
- Experience in supervising/supporting staff
- Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter agency working
- Experience of assessment to identify the dysphagia needs/risks of children and young people on the caseload.
- Experience of providing a range of care planning necessary to address the dysphagia needs of children and young people
- Experience of planning, organising and delivering training programmes
- Experience of supporting children, families and schools in line with the Children and Families Act 2014 including contribution to statutory assessments (Education Health and Care Plan Needs Assessments), contribution to the annual review process and delivery of SALT provision as specified in Education health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
Desirable
- Experience working as a highly specialist speech & language therapist in relevant clinical specialism in last 18 months
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised SLT degree or equivalent
- Health Care Professionals Council Licence to Practice
- Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT
- Evidence of competency level C or above of the RCSLT Dysphagia Competency Framework
Desirable
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Masters degree or equivalent
- Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)
- Advanced dysphagia qualification /post graduate paediatric dysphagia training e.g. Manchester Post Basic Dysphagia Course
- Evidence of completion of highly specialist short courses in dysphagia management
Experience
Essential
- Post graduate paediatric dysphagia experience (4 years) including non-oral feeding
- In-depth experience within specialist area/area of service delivery
- Experience in supervising/supporting staff
- Experience in contributing to policy, planning and service development
- Experience of multi-disciplinary and inter agency working
- Experience of assessment to identify the dysphagia needs/risks of children and young people on the caseload.
- Experience of providing a range of care planning necessary to address the dysphagia needs of children and young people
- Experience of planning, organising and delivering training programmes
- Experience of supporting children, families and schools in line with the Children and Families Act 2014 including contribution to statutory assessments (Education Health and Care Plan Needs Assessments), contribution to the annual review process and delivery of SALT provision as specified in Education health and Care Plans (EHCPs)
Desirable
- Experience working as a highly specialist speech & language therapist in relevant clinical specialism in last 18 months
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
