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About
We provide high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist services within Birmingham and the West Midlands. We deliver over 100 clinical services, out in peoples homes and in over 200 hospitals, health centres and clinics. We provide services for adults, children, people with learning disabilities, those with rehabilitation needs and also dental services.
Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Closed for applications on: 6-Aug-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 6-Aug-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Locality TBC ; Central base Moseley Hall Hospital
- Address
- Alcester Rd
- Town
- Birmingham
- Postcode
- B13 8JL
- Major / Minor Region
- Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Annualised hours
Salary
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 6)
Specialty
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapist
- Interview date
- 19/08/2024
Job overview
Band 6 Children’s Speech and Language Therapist Interviews 14th August
Come and join one of our Locality SLT teams in Birmingham : a vibrant multicultural city! We have sessions available in our Schools teams, in both mainstream and specialist settings across the city supporting a range of speech, language and communication needs. Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents? Do you want to be part of an integrated SLT service with an experienced, optimistic and inclusive workforce of SLTs and education partners? If so come and join us! It's an exciting time! It's our first year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System(R) 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.
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Successful candidates will have opportunity to:
Manage your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN)and/or Dysphagia 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 SLCN and complex needs Work alongside education and local authority and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) and work in localities developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
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Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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 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
For further information about our department follow the link below:
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC are an advocate of diversity and strive to mirror the community we serve as much possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC are striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
- Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
- Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
- Discounts for local and national retailers
- Dedicated well-being services for all employees
- Flexible working where possible
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A Degree level qualification relevant to the SLT profession
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Trained in ADOS (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule)
- Trained in NAS EarlyBird
- Trained in PECS
- Post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Is able to deliver a number of contacts across the working week across a range of settings
- Is able and willing to move around the city.
- Is able to carry a variety of equipment between locations safely.
- Is able to work at various heights and locations according to needs of clients.
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to use evidence base to inform clinical decision making around complex presentations in specialist clinical area
- Able to work with a range of families in a culturally and socially diverse area
- Highly developed negotiation and influencing skills with emerging clinical leadership.
- Strong analytical and planning skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. Able to explain complex ideas in a simple way. Able to write clear reports and notes to a professional standard.
- IT literate and able to use a range of specialist programmes e.g. Communicate in Print.
Desirable criteria
- Able to develop specialist programmes of care & explain them to carers and staff.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of delivering clinical support and supervision to less experienced Speech and Language Therapists and/or SLT assistants
- Demonstrates high awareness of safeguarding issues and processes
- Significant experience as a qualified therapist of successful multi-agency working with families and stakeholders in Local Authority and Health settings.
- Specialist management of a diverse caseload, as a qualified therapist, having provided support to other professionals.
- Experience of delivering successful/effective training to other professionals.
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- Can prioritise own workload and has insight into own coping strategies in stressful situations.
- Is able to reflect on own clinical practice and initiate appropriate changes
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Abba
- Job title
- Service Clinical Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07872420670
- Additional information
Lisa Abba, Service Clinical Manager SLT [email protected]
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