Job overview

The Children’s Therapy Services work with children and young people aged 0–18, identifying needs, providing assessment, and delivering support that makes a real difference to their health and development. We work closely with families in their homes and health settings, as well as with education partners in early years and school environments. Our teams cover Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, with services delivered across these areas to ensure families can access support as easily as possible.

This combined leadership and clinical role offers the chance to continue developing your own clinical expertise while guiding and supporting a talented team of School Age Speech and Language Therapists. It offers a balance of direct therapeutic work and the opportunity to shape and strengthen service delivery.

The post is made up of 0.6 sessions as a Band 7 Lead for the Bristol School Age Team, alongside 0.2 sessions as a Band 6 clinical therapist in South Gloucestershire. You can find both job descriptions in the documents section of this advert.

Main duties of the job

• To practise as a highly specialist clinical practitioner, being a source of expertise, providing support, supervision, teaching, advice and consultation across BNSSG. To offer highly specialist clinical 
  expertise within a specified clinical area and to carry own highly specialist case load within a specified clinical area.
• You will collaborate with Professional Leads to manage the Speech & Language Therapy Service
• You will have line management responsibilities of some staff and be responsible for holding team meetings.
• You will support the overview of locality performance on RTTs and EHCP targets
• You will be working with Operational Leads & data teams on EMIS optimisation.
• To provide clinical and day to day leadership for a therapy discipline within a designated locality and be a first point of contact for the team for queries and concerns.
• To use discretion in the interpretation of departmental policies.  This may include decision making on queries raised by the locality team members around aspects of policy implementation.  Post-holder would refer significant queries to relevant Professional Lead.
• To support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with accountability and responsibility for the activity, performance, outcomes and clinical governance of the designated therapy team in the locality
• Support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with recruitment including interviewing and induction for new recruitment
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Working for our organisation

Ever dreamt about a career that sparks excitement and fosters your professional growth? Picture yourself waking up eager to make a real difference in our community, surrounded by teams who value your unique ideas. It's time to turn your dream into reality!

We are Sirona care & health – England’s largest provider of Adult’s and Children’s Community Services and we’d love for you to join us in Bristol, North Somerset or South Gloucestershire.

Agenda for Change Salary, full NHS benefits, 27+ days’ annual leave, and participation in the NHS Pension Scheme – just a glimpse of the benefits we offer.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.
Interested? View our benefits leaflet which you can find as an attachment on this vacancy.