This post is eligible for a Golden Hello payment of £2,750 for new starters who are external to the Trust. This is payable in 3 instalments over a 2 year period. This payment is only eligible to new starters who do not already hold a contract of employment with the Trust. This post also includes paid enhancements for unsocial hours working during night, weekends and bank holidays.
We have an opportunity for a Speech & Language Therapist who has a keen interest in working with children with a wide range of Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN) resulting from having complex needs . This post involves supporting children with complex needs in a variety of locations including homes, clinics, nurseries, special and mainstream schools.
We offer good support networks, regular supervision, and access to internal training.
This is an opportunity to develop skills and expertise in working with children with a wide range of SLCN resulting from complex needs.
Work as part of the complex needs team and wider multidisciplinary team to support children, families and settings.
Assess, diagnose, design and deliver appropriate packages of care for children with a wide range of SLCN and complex needs.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!

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The Speech and Language Therapy Service supports children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) and eating and drinking needs , across Nottingham City and Nottinghamshire County. The service provides a range of packages of care for children with speech and language difficulties, developmental language disorder, autistic spectrum disorder, learning difficulties, physical difficulties, eating and drinking difficulties, voice disorders, hearing impairment and disorders of fluency. The service aims to provide support to children in the most appropriate setting e.g. health, education, home.
We are a large department relative to other departments across the country. This means that there are frequent opportunities to develop skills, and we have therapists who are able to specialise in clinical areas and share their knowledge/support less experienced therapists.
We actively support new staff to build up their confidence in managing cases, allowing the gradual build up of skills and experience over time. This includes shadowing and CPD opportunities, and time to discuss cases, whilst you develop your skills.

We would love to hear from you if you can or are keen to develop your skills to –

• Assess, diagnose, design and deliver appropriate packages of care for children with SLCN and complex needs.
• Work collaboratively with, and provide training and coaching for parents, education staff and other professionals , ensuring a well co-ordinated support plan for children who meet the criteria for speech and language therapy.
• Assist in the identification and management of children with SLCN as part of the integrated team and advise SLTAs.

Please refer the Job description for details