Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

at  Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

The Children’s SLT and CDC teams work in close partnership with parent representative groups, and key stakeholders in education and social care across Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Local Authorities to monitor and improve the service through co-production
The teams are committed to ensuring staff have the skills and time to feel proud of the work that we do. At Band 6 there are options and opportunities to deliver care and support, and to develop your skills across all our specialist pathways, including in early years complex needs and the child development centres, specials schools and outreach, augmentative and alternative communication, eating and drinking, stammering, early and school aged speech and language development, speech disorders and Developmental Language Disorder. We offer care across universal, targeted and specific waves of intervention.
The SLT team has a research lead and we actively seek to develop everyone’s interest and participation in audit, service improvement and research .
We will actively support you to develop your skills and your career opportunities .
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you to submit your applications early to avoid disappointment.
To undertake comprehensive autonomous speech, language and communication assessment for children and young people, including those with complex presentations, using investigative and analytical skills.
To analyse and interpret clinical and non-clinical information to form an accurate profile of strengths, difficulties and needs, diagnoses and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions.
To develop care plans in partnership with children and young people, parents and others in children’s lives.
To deliver care and support at a highly specialist level.
To develop your knowledge, skills and clinical networks in your chosen specialist area responding to available evidence and being involved in audit, service improvement and research.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
The Children’s SLT team work closely within Children’s Therapy Services with the Child Development Centres and Community Paediatrics, and also provide in reaching services to the local acute wards
There are strong relationships across the Children’s and Families service delivery group with all teams.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role

Please refer the Job description for details