Job overview

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist with experience in working with children and young people with SEND and with complex SLCN associated with their learning and/or physical or health needs? If so, we would love to hear from you.

Help shape the delivery of the service, work with parents and partners to agree key performance and quality indicators and to measure our progress towards the targets we set. Clinical leadership in SEND is essential within early years and school aged children. This includes opportunities to develop care pathways, consider the evidence base, measure clinical outcomes, participate in quality improvement, audit, and research. As a leader in the team, you will have the opportunity to influence wider service delivery for children, young people and their families. You will provide line management and supervisory support to some staff within the team. 

The balance of the role in relation to direct clinical and leadership time will be negotiated with the successful candidate.

There are systems in place providing good professional support across Therapy Teams and the Child Development Centres. A commitment to personal development, training, including to advanced clinical practice, peer review and supervision are important. The successful applicant will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post across Shropshire and Telford. We welcome applications from SLTs seeking flexible working.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership for the service to Children and Young People with SEND needs and to Families, Health Professionals and Pre-School or School based staff who support them and other partner organisations. Together with Team Leaders and other Clinical Leads within the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Team and relevant Managers of Children’s Services, to be responsible for issues relating to clinical practice and quality and for the performance of the team.
• To develop and maintain positive relationships with Pre School and School based staff, and other relevant professionals and service managers to promote the early identification of Speech, Language and Communication Needs and the skills of the children’s workforce in meeting their needs.
• To provide highly specialist and high-quality SEND advice, assessment and intervention in Specialist and Community settings for children with complex needs including, learning, physical or sensory difficulties and their carers and educators.

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.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for disclosure to be made to the Criminal Records Bureau to check for any previous criminal convictions.