Highly Specialist Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

A fantastic opportunity has arisen across our Schools Speech and Language Therapy Teams. The team is part of the wider Community Paediatric SLT and Children's Therapies team. This is a supportive and dynamic team with many professional development opportunities.

We pride ourselves on our commitment to creating an equal and inclusive working environment for people of all backgrounds providing an evidence based service for all our children and their families. You will have:

• Knowledge and/or experience of working with, a diverse paediatric caseload
• Experience working with parents of young children
• Experience of supporting the evaluation of service delivery
• Experience in delivering universal and / or targeted level offers to mainstream schools
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team
• Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary
• Enthusiasm, imagination, and initiative
• Understanding of the neurodiversity framework

The role will encompass supervision and and support of junior speech and language therapists as well as speech and language therapy assistants. The post holder will also support the development and evaluation of service delivery.

Main duties of the job

Within this role you will:

• Take a leadership role to continue to develop our service for children with language disorders
• Supervise junior staff including newly qualified Speech and Language Therapists (SLT)
• Support the evaluation and quality improvement of the SLT service with the support of the clinical team leads
• Be able to manage a diverse and varied paediatric caseload of children who are in schools and resource bases
• Develop your leadership and management skills within the Mainstream Primary Schools SLT including service development

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of main responsibilities

Please ensure you demonstrate how you meet the essential/desirable criteria as part of your application.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.