Children's Speech and Language Therapist

4 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

Job overview

Salford Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Service is looking to recruit a creative and flexible Speech and Language Therapist to work as part of our schools team (Enhanced).

You will be part of a friendly, experienced department who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs. We have a well-established service providing a ‘balanced system’ across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support.

This role will involve delivery of clinical interventions in primary and high schools and supporting and delivering our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues. The post holder will receive supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service.

Main duties of the job

Main duties:

- To deliver universal, targeted and specialist clinical work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy Schools Team (Enhanced).
- To assess and diagnose conditions and to plan and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and treatment and discharge appropriately, using evidence-based practice.
- To work collaboratively with parents, carers and educators and to support children with a range of communication needs.
- To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
- Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three

core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information

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Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPerson specification

**Qualifications**:
Essential criteria
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy (will also consider if expecting degree results imminently)
- Full driving license and use of a car

Professional registration

Essential criteria
- HCPC registration - license to practice
- RCSLT member

Knowledge, training and experience

Essential criteria
- Knowledge and demonstrated sue of up to date assessment tool relevant to the client group
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)
- Awareness of the roles of other professionals

Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative forms of Communication e.g. signing, symbols, communication aids

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria
- Good planning and organisational skills and caseload management including prioritisation skills
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
- Basic IT skills

We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.

We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.

**For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.***

Employer certification / accreditation badges

**Applicant requirements**:
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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