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Band 6 Children’s Speech and Language Therapist – Special Schools
Come and join our SaLT Team in Birmingham: a vibrant multicultural city!
Are you passionate about integrated working, functional outcomes for children, and enabling education staff and parents?
Do you want to be part of an integrated SaLT service with an experienced, optimistic and inclusive workforce of SaLTs, SLTAs, healthcare, and education partners?
If so come and join us!
We currently have a permanent opportunity based in our Special Schools team. Your role will also involve sessions in our Faster Access to ACT (Access to Communication and Technology) team.
You will be working to support families, education partners, and children with a wide range of communication needs across the city.
We are strongly committed to anti-racism, equality and diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity in our workforce to better serve our communities.
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 have strong links with universities and are committed to student education.
We'd love to hear from you! Please call us to find out more.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have opportunity to:
- Manage your own caseload of children and young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support children to achieve functional outcomes
- Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with SLCN and complex needs
- Supporting onward referrals to specialist services such as Access to Communication and Technology (ACT)
- Work alongside Healthcare, Education, Local Authority, and Early Years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff
- Be based within a locality, developing local networks to building skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Undertaking assessment of clients’ communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
- Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
- Advising and facilitating the decision-making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
- Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
- Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
See Job description for more detail
Person specification
Experience
Essential
- • Significant experience of diagnostic assessment and intervention in a relevant specialist area of service
- • Significant experience of working as a specialist therapist with children and families in a range of multi-disciplinary and / or multi-agency teams in Local Authority and Health settings
- Experience of managing a mixed and complex caseload of children and young people with a range of developmental disorders and delays
- • Experience of managing safeguarding concerns and an understanding of local processes
- • Experience of delivering support and supervision to colleagues and other professionals
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- • Knowledge of the needs of a diverse social and ethnic population and the impact on all aspects of service provision
- • Competent in supporting the collection and analysis of data, critiquing research to contribute to service development, planning and management
- • Knowledge of the national and political agenda influencing health services and specific service area
Qualifications & training
Essential
- • First degree level qualification
- • HCPC Licence to practice
- • Evidence of recent relevant CPD activities in specialist area
- • Full Membership of Professional body , relevant to service area
Desirable
- Relevant training in specialist area e.g. Alternative and Augmentative Communication
- Relevant training in clinical leadership
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This advert is for Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum (pro rata). The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 09 Aug 2026.
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