Specialist Speech

**Specialist Speech & Language Therapist**:
**Band 6**:
**Main area**
- Speech and Language Therapy
- **Grade**
- Band 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-22-964**Site**
- St Austell Community Hospital
- **Town**
- St Austell
- **Salary**
- £32,306 - £39,027 Per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- Today at 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

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**_ Great Care_**:

- We will deliver safe, high quality, consistent and personalised care based on best practice. We are working to be a responsive organisation that listens and learns._

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- We work to be a green organisation, and our sustainability plan will deliver NHS net zero targets. We will support quality care, research and innovation. All our work will be underpinned by clear and transparent principles and systems._

**_ Great People _**:

- We will work together with our staff to create an organisation that supports our collective health and wellbeing. We will attract, retain and develop great people, and embed a caring, open, inclusive and restorative just culture that supports us to deliver quality care._

**_ Great Partner_**:

- With our partners we will deliver health care that improves people’s quality of life, prevents ill health and reduces inequalities. We will spend our money wisely to achieve high quality outcomes that matter to local people._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
The Cornwall Speech and Language Therapy service has an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Band 6 Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist to join our Mid Cornwall and Request for Help Teams The post is made up of 3 days allocated to our new Request for Help service.In this role the post holder will be taking calls from parents and professionals leading to signposting, provision of information and advice or which may result in taking a referral. The post will be based in St Austell community Hospital but also lends itself to working from home for some of the week. Clinically it will cover schools, home visits and clinic appointments in the mid Cornwall area. You will join an established existing team based at St Austell Hospital and have access to regular supervision and support.

The post has a caseload of preschool and school age children with a wide range of speech language and communication needs.

Please contact us if you would like to discuss the role and how the Cornwall SALT service operates.We are always looking for ways to improve the service we offer and seek to engage SALTs at all levels to inform change

The post holder will

Participate in the provision of a high standard, specialist Speech and Language Therapy service, providing specialist assessments, intervention and advice for children and young people including those with highly complex presentations.

To guide, educate and work alongside parents, carers and other professionals to support children and young people with speech, language, communication.

To participate in clinical governance and service development within the Speech and Language Therapy teams in partnership with professional specialists, and other clinical leads.

To participate in the universal and targeted offer of the SALT service through providing advice and information through the Request for Help process

The SLT Service has a range of continuing development opportunities ranging from individual to service wide training and journal clubs. We have embraced recent technological advances and provide a mixture of face to face and teletherapy.There is also access to a range of specialist SLT practitioners for advice and support. You will have access to a comprehensive induction ,regular supervision and support and local team meetings.

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