Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist

Overview

Are you a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, and enabling education staff and parents as part of The Balanced System approach? Do you want to be part of a SaLT service with an experienced, optimistic, and inclusive workforce of SaLTs and education partners?

If so come and join us! It s an exciting time for the service:

• Community SaLT teams working in localities developing local networks and building skills in the wider workforce
• A SEND locality therapy agenda to integrate education and Local Authority and early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND).
• We are in our third year of delivering a Balanced System approach to support children with SLCN; working in partnership with families and a wide range of stakeholders
• Join our SaLT team!
• We offer excellent preceptorship support for NQPs with regular individual and group sessions & access to Specialists
• We offer flexible working options, delivering care face to face and virtually, in education settings, clinics, family homes, and out in the community.
• Manage your own caseload of children with speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) including assessment, diagnosis, and intervention, using an enabling model to support functional outcomes, and responding flexibly to the highest areas of need
• Work alongside education, Local Authority, and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with SLCN
• Work within a locality to develop networks, build skills in the wider workforce, and increase the impact of our interventions
• The SLT 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 have an experienced team committed to taking NQPs through preceptorship, and a culture of ongoing learning and clinical supervision.
• 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.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people s homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands. If you want to  Be Part of Our Team  and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.