Band 7 Slt Advanced Specialist Deaf - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Are you a highly specialist SLT in deafness or have a special interest and passion in the field of deafness? Are you passionate about the latest development and research in deafness and promoting and sharing good practice with SLT colleagues and partners?

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and forward thinking community team, acting as an Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist in deafness.

We deliver clinical excellence through evidence based packages of care and use of a clinical profiling tool and service thresholds to deliver an equitable citywide service to the children referred.

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.

We work closely with Teachers of the deaf in delivering a service to deaf clients.

You will provide Speech and Language Therapy at a highly specialist level, within the area of deafness, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support in the holistic assessment, diagnosis and intervention for children and young people known to the service.

You will demonstrate clinical leadership in deafness and represent the local team/service area in all appropriate meetings to support and develop quality services for deaf children and young people across the city in an integrated partnership model, where possible.

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles.

BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.

We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities.

We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

A breakdown of the post is as follows:

0.2 wte dedicated time to:

Identifying training and development needs within the specialist clinical area of deafness and delivering activities which contribute to maintenance of safe, effective clinical practice.
Supporting and developing SLT staff to gain skills and knowledge within the clinical area of deafness, providing clinical supervision and highly specialist support.

0.4 WTE you will be working with a deaf client group

See JD for further details