Children's Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Would you like to come and join our innovative and forward thinking team?

Due to a promotion within our team, we currently have a vacancy for a full time Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist

The successful applicant will:

• have a degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• be registered with the HCPC and RCSLT
• have experience working with children & young people
• demonstrate good written and oral communication skills
• demonstrate effective organisational skills
• have a current driving license and have access to a car

This post is a paediatric community post so will potentially include clinic, school visits, nursery visits and contributing to the assessments for autism as well as many other diagnoses.

For further information please contact Kay Baker: 07817976710 or via The Lyng Centre: 0121 612 2345

Main duties of the job

Assessment, diagnosis, advice and support for children across Sandwell.

We work with children aged from 0 to 16 or older if in full time education.

We provide a service in schools, clinics, nurseries and children's own homes.

We are an award winning team and have been recognised as Outstanding by CQC. We are the authors of WellComm Early Years and WellComm Primary – both of which are published language screens that are used nationally. We are currently developing a ne WellComm product.

We pride ourselves on being not only innovative and resourceful but also friendly, supportive and fun.

We are looking to recruit a Senior Speech and Language Therapist to join our Integrated Children’s Community Therapy Service in Sandwell (Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech & Language Therapy).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification documents for details regarding the main roles and  responsibilities of this post.