Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 29 Ionawr 2026 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata) |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Chwefror 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham, B13 8JL |
| Cwmni: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7703654/820-7703654-CF |
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A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Band 6 Children’s EDS (Dysphagia) Speech and Language Therapist
Come and join our Eating Drinking and Swallowing team .
Are you passionate about EDS, MDT working in order to achieve functional outcomes for children, enabling parents and the wider workforce ?
If so come and join us!
It’s an exciting time ! It's our first year of delivering a new SLT EDS model designed to improve outcomes for children and their families, improve waiting times and integrated working as well as support staff development and wellbeing.
Main duties of the job:
Successful candidates will have opportunity to:
• Manage your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Eating Drinking and Swallowing difficulties, including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support the child to achieve functional outcomes
• Deliver care, face to face and virtually, across a range of locations including education settings, children's centres, family hubs, health centres and family homes
• Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff
• Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with EDS needs
• Work alongside the MDT and work in localities developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
Join our department at this exciting time:
· We offer flexible working with opportunities to work full-time, part-time, Term Time Only, hybrid (mix of virtual, home and face to face) 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 value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development, and we welcome and value new ideas and experiences.
· We are strongly committed to anti-racism, equality and diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity in our workforce to better serve our communities
· We have strong links with Universities and are committed to student education We have great access to IT: laptops and mobile phones provided as routine
· Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
· Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
· Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
· Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
· Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
· See Job description for more detail. Please note the JD and PS is very generic for all our B6 posts so does not refer specifically to EDS.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026
Band 6 Children’s EDS (Dysphagia) Speech and Language Therapist
Come and join our Eating Drinking and Swallowing team .
Are you passionate about EDS, MDT working in order to achieve functional outcomes for children, enabling parents and the wider workforce ?
If so come and join us!
It’s an exciting time ! It's our first year of delivering a new SLT EDS model designed to improve outcomes for children and their families, improve waiting times and integrated working as well as support staff development and wellbeing.
Main duties of the job:
Successful candidates will have opportunity to:
• Manage your own caseload of Children with Speech, Language and Eating Drinking and Swallowing difficulties, including assessment, diagnosis and intervention; using an enabling model to support the child to achieve functional outcomes
• Deliver care, face to face and virtually, across a range of locations including education settings, children's centres, family hubs, health centres and family homes
• Clinically supervise NQPs and more junior members of staff
• Work with children and families at home and in early years, mainstream & specialist settings, supporting children with EDS needs
• Work alongside the MDT and work in localities developing local networks to build skills in the wider workforce and increase the impact of our interventions.
Join our department at this exciting time:
· We offer flexible working with opportunities to work full-time, part-time, Term Time Only, hybrid (mix of virtual, home and face to face) 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 value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development, and we welcome and value new ideas and experiences.
· We are strongly committed to anti-racism, equality and diversity and are seeking to increase the diversity in our workforce to better serve our communities
· We have strong links with Universities and are committed to student education We have great access to IT: laptops and mobile phones provided as routine
· Undertaking assessment of clients communication and making appropriate clinical decisions with access to senior colleagues as required
· Structuring clear therapy plans based on best practice
· Advising and facilitating the decision making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved
· Using highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition related information from assessment /therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members etc.
· Working as part of multidisciplinary and multi-agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
· See Job description for more detail. Please note the JD and PS is very generic for all our B6 posts so does not refer specifically to EDS.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Feb 2026