Speech and Language Therapist

at  Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust

Children’s Speech and Language Therapist - Band 5
Permanent Contract
Part time 0.6 wte (22.5 hrs per week)
Full time hours may also be available.
Would you like to come and join our Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Team in Coventry ?
An opportunity has arisen for a newly qualified or experienced Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist to join our innovative community based team working across Coventry. You would have a varied caseload of children to develop your clinical skills in a number of areas. The service is delivered in a variety of settings; nursery, mainstream and special schools and also in the city centre clinic.
The Children’s Speech & Language Therapy Team aims to provide a high quality service to children, young people and their families. We provide assessment, interventions, advice and education to children and young people aged 0-19 with a Coventry GP. We also support children in Coventry schools with an Education, Health & Care Plan. We have developed clinical pathways and a competency programme in Speech, Language, Voice , Stammering, Dysphagia, Deafness, Cleft Palate, Alternative & Augmentative Communication and young children “At Risk” of SLCN.
We are committed to professional development and evidence based practice, offering regular in-service CPD days and peer group / one to one clinical supervision. Mentoring and management supervision are also provided as well as support from more experienced and specialist therapists. We will support you to achieve your RCSLT Newly Qualified Therapist competencies if required. Internal and external training courses are supported.
Being a member of a large Speech and Language Therapy team of SLTs and Assistants and close working with Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy colleagues gives opportunities for lots of different clinical and training experiences.
CWPT are exploring rotations within our Mental Health and Learning Disabilities & Autism directorates and with system partners for adult therapy. This post could be included within the rotational consideration if the successful applicant is interested.
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put ‘people at our heart’; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

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