Job overview

We are excited to be advertising for a 0.8 WTE Band 6 senior Speech and Language Therapist with an interest in dysfluency  and looking for opportunities to develop their leadership skills. The main duties will be to manage a fluency caseload and undertake team lead responsibilities.

The majority of the post will be based in Torbay, South and West locality with some work being located within the Exeter, East and Mid team. 

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children’s community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

Main duties of the job

• To manage a caseload of children and young people with complex Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN), which may include speech,  language, communication and/or eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties, using evidenced based practice to assess, plan, formulate, implement and  evaluate interventions in a variety of settings (individually and/or in groups and as  part of a multidisciplinary team)

•Working within a CFHD pathway of care, provide clinical support and supervision to the less experienced SLT’s in the team and across the designated pathways/s of care (these can include but are not limited to; Speech, Language and Communication Pathway, Managing Neurodiversity Pathway, Community Children’s Nursing, Physical and Sensory pathway and Vulnerable Children’s Pathway)
• To work with the Clinical Team Manager to co-ordinate the clinic and oversee the day to day caseload management
• Participate in the provision of student placements.
• To co-ordinate the team audit and monitoring of outcomes for interventions and report to locality lead.

Working for our organisation

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;

• Torbay and South Devon FT
• Devon Partnership NHS Trust
• Royal Devon and Exeter FT
• Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
• Livewell South West

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people which are provided by TSDFT and DPT. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say…

“We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure”.

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.