Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in Birmingham

Come and join our SaLT Team in Birmingham: a vibrant multicultural city! Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, and enabling education staff and parents? Do you want to be part of an integrated SaLT service with an experienced, optimistic and inclusive workforce of SaLTs, SLTAs, healthcare, and education partners? If so come and join us!

We currently have a permanent opportunity based in our Special Schools team. Your role will also involve sessions in our Faster Access to ACT (Access to Communication and Technology) team. You will be working to support families, education partners, and children with a wide range of communication needs across the city.

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 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 have strong links with universities and are committed to student education.

The successful candidate will have the opportunity to:

• Manage your own caseload of children and young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support children to achieve functional outcomes.
• Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with SLCN and complex needs.
• Support onward referrals to specialist services such as Access to Communication and Technology (ACT).
• Work alongside Healthcare, Education, Local Authority, and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
• Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff.
• Be based within a locality, developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (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, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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.

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.