Job Description

Do you have established clinical and leadership skills or the aptitude and passion to develop these in a dynamic working environment?



Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents and supporting your SaLT team to deliver on this?



We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to cover maternity leave in our friendly and forward-thinking community team. Acting as Special Schools Coordinator , you will support and advocate for children with SLCN in special schools across the city and coordinate the work of the SaLTs working in special schools.



We deliver clinical excellence through evidence-based practice.

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.



It's an exciting time for the service! We have just started our third year of delivering an integrated SLT service within a Balanced System framework. We're working in partnership with families, the Local Authority, individual schools and a wide range of stakeholders to deliver interventions at Universal, Targeted and Specialist levels.

You will:

Work with a Highly Specialist B7 SLT in Special Education to provide Clinical supervision and support for the staff working in special schools,

Coordinate and support a team of SLTAs, NQPs and experienced SaLTs to deliver clinical care to school-age children with SLCN in special schools across the city,

Be supported to manage waiting lists and allocation of resource,

Work with the other School-Age Coordinators to develop best practice to this population across the city,

Be part of the service level management team shaping the direction of the SaLT service in Birmingham,

Build local networks and contribute to new ways of working in collaboration with the wider stakeholders,

Support the staff in your team to work in ways which optimise impact and deliver on outcomes.



The SaLT service works as part of Inclusion Services within the Children and Families Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We work across the whole city, within a range of community and educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.



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 offer a supportive working environment with access to specialist clinical support, and an emphasis on sharing good practice through effective team working.



For further information about our department follow the link below:



http://www.bhamcommunity.nhs.uk/childrens-slt

See for detail. Key duties include:

To take responsibility for ensuring commissioner-led service delivery and management of waiting list and active caseloads in designated local or clinical area.



Demonstrate clinical leadership and represent the local team/service area in all appropriate meetings to support the planning and development of quality services in local designated area in an integrated partnership model.



Linking in with regional and national colleagues via networks to benchmark best practice, build professional networks and bring practice back to the service to contribute to service planning within the specialist area.



To provide Speech and Language Therapy at a highly specialist level, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children and young people known to the service.