Job Description

The Community Speech & Language Therapy team at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust works across the localities of Sefton and Liverpool, and as part of our development, we have a vacancy for Band 6 Specialist Speech & Language Therapists based in Liverpool..



We are looking for an experienced therapist to join our community clinics and a language resource base to support children and young people with early language and speech sound disorders.



This is a specialist post, with support from a range of highly specialist speech and language therapists, and access to external CPD courses and opportunities to undertake research encouraged.



This post is based in the community, and so there is an expectation that the successful candidate will be able to travel to, and between various locations throughout the week.



If you are enthusiastic about improving the communication skills of children and empowering parents, carers and educators to do so, we would welcome your application. If you would like more information, please contact Helen Shepherd, Highly Specialist, Speech & Language Therapist on 0151 295 3990



The successful candidate will continue to develop their specialist knowledge and skills in the areas of early language development, developmental language disorder and speech sound disorders, providing assessment and therapy to a small caseload of children in clinic and one of our language resources.



The team also deliver parent training through workshops and provide face to face and digital therapy in groups and individually.



In addition to this, first assessments, delivering parent training through workshops and provide face to face and digital therapy in groups is also included within the job plan for this post.



Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. In

addition to the hospital site located in the West Derby area of Liverpool, Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in

collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients' homes by holding local clinics.



You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:



Great flexible working opportunities



Discounted gym membership



Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme



Generous annual leave and pension scheme



Extensive staff health and well-being programmes



Assess, implement and review Speech and Language Therapy treatment and discharge in a timely manner.

Ensure that children/carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and facilitate joint decisions wherever possible.

Work with clients on an individual and group basis.

Work independently, as a member of a Speech and Language Therapy Team and as a member of a wider multi-disciplinary team.

Demonstrate the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness

Engage in collaborative working practices with the children and young people, their parents / carers, educational, social care and health professionals.

Adapt practice to meet individual circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.

Negotiate with carers, clients and others around individual case management including the management of the communication environment.