Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

This post is Fixed Term for 30 months only due to funding.

Are you an enthusiastic speech and language therapist who is passionate about changing the life chances of children in the Early Years by supporting children's speech, language and communication needs?

Are you looking for a post in the beautiful South Wales valleys?

Then this may be the job for you!

We are delighted to offer this fixed-term band 6 Speech and Language Therapist post, currently funded until March 2028.

We are looking for a therapist with experience working with children under 4, has excellent communication skills and enjoys working collaboratively with others.  You will join our already well established Flying Start team in RCT.

You will demonstrate the Health Board values of listening, learning and improving, treating everyone with respect and always working together as one team.

Main duties of the job

You will support families and the Early Years workforce to develop young children’s communication. This may involve advice and signposting for individual children, supervision,  training and support to staff. You will liaise with other professionals in Health.

We are a friendly and compassionate service with a strong commitment to supporting staff well-being, supervision and continued professional development.

You will join a small, passionate and committed multi agency team that consists of speech and language teams, an Educational Psychologist, an Occupational Therapist and Flying Start Childcare Advisory Officers. The team young children and their parents via the Community Wellbeing and Resilience Service. We provide training and advice to Flying Start settings and wider professionals in health and across Resilience families at universal and targeted levels, whilst maintaining links to the core SLT service. The focus is on prevention and early identification of speech, language and communication needs, whilst promoting responsiveness in caregivers and practitioners through evidence based practice.

The children's SLT service has a range of clinical specialists available for second opinions and staff are supported by a line management structure,  Paediatric Team Leads and an Admin Team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.