Job summary
- Main area
- Children and Families
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity Cover)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Term time hours
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Monkmoor Campus
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Children’s SLT in DLD and Speech Sound Disorders
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
We are seeking a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist who would be interested in working in our community services and with children and young people with Developmental Language Disorder and/or Speech Sound Disorders.
The Children's SLT and CDC teams work in close partnership with parent representative groups, and key stakeholders in education and social care across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Local Authorities to monitor and improve the service through co-production.
The teams are committed to ensuring staff have the skills and time to feel proud of the work that we do. At Band 6 there are options and opportunities to deliver care and support, and to develop your skills across our specialist pathway for children/young people with Developmental Language Disorder and Speech Sound Disorders. We offer care across universal, targeted and specific waves of intervention.
The SLT team is research lead and we actively seek to develop everyone's interest and participation in audit, service improvement and research.
We are especially keen to hear from Therapists who may be seeking a rural place to live / work to join our teams either part time, full time or mixed with a role in one of our specialist teams, along our borders with Cheshire, Hereford and Worcestershire and Wales.
We will actively support you to develop your skills and your career opportunities .
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
- To undertake comprehensive autonomous speech, language and communication assessment for children and young people, including those with complex presentations, using investigative and analytical skills.
- To analyse and interpret clinical and non-clinical information to form an accurate profile of strengths, difficulties and needs, diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions.
- To develop care plans in partnership with children and young people, parents and others in children's lives.
- To deliver care and support at a highly specialist level.
- To develop your knowledge, skills and clinical networks in your chosen specialist area responding to available evidence and being involved in audit, service improvement and research.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
The Children's SLT team work closely within Children's Therapy Services with the Child Development Centres and Community Paediatrics, and also provide in reaching services to the local acute wards
There are strong relationships across the Children's and Families service delivery group with all teams.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- Holds recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent.
- Holds Health Professions Council licence to practice as a Speech and Language Therapist.
- Registered Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Evidence of completion of relevant short course and continuing professional development in specialist areas relevant to the post
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at post-graduate level with a range of speech, language communication difficulties in children.
- Significant experience of working with children and young people with a range of complex speech, language, and special educational needs
- Significant experience at post-graduate level of working in multidisciplinary teams to assess the needs of children and families.
- Experience at post-graduate level of using a range of assessments and assessment processes.
- Experience of data gathering methodology and participation in clinical audit.
- Experience at post-graduate level of delivering and evaluating relevant training and coaching programmes.
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
Essential criteria
- National policies and procedures relevant to Children's Speech and Language Therapy and to Children and Young People's Education.
- Safeguarding procedures and their implementation in practice.
- Demonstrate an ongoing awareness of recent developments in practice and research including National guidance.
- Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and their implications for the service.
- Excellent analytical and reflective skills.
- Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills.
- Demonstrate knowledge of relevant speech, language, and communication assessments, interventions, and techniques how to evaluate their relevance and effectiveness.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rhiannon Williams
- Job title
- SSLIC Lead Children's Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 450800
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