Job summary
- Main area
- Children's SLT
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Other
- Job ref
- 825-6420108-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Monkmoor campus
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Speech and Language Therapy Assistant - Bank
NHS AfC: Band 4
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of £38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of £23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
This post has been developed for final year speech and language therapy students completing their clinical education placement with the children's SLT team.
Main duties of the job
- To implement, under the guidance of speech and language therapists, therapy programmes with children with speech, language and communication difficulties.
- To support parents and educators to make changes to be confident in their knowledge and skills.
- To make adaptations to therapy and training programmes to meet the needs of children and young people, their parents, carers and educators, and to escalate any required adaptations that are out of scope of this role to a speech and language therapist.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- To be educated to GCSE or equivalent level, including qualification in English language.
- Holds a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant qualification, such as a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant BTEC or equivalent, or holds an NVQ4, BTEC, HNC or higher apprenticeship in a relevant field of child development and has significant experience in working with children with speech, language and communication needs
- Shows demonstrable evidence of attendance at recent short courses in speech, language and communication
- Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Practical experience in working with children and/or young people with a range of speech, language and communication difficulties
- Significant experience working with or within a Speech and Language Therapy Service.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of different therapeutic interventions and techniques and ability to evaluate their use.
- Good understanding of the development of language and communication.
- Ability to work unsupervised in the delivery of therapy.
- Good analytical and reflective skills.
- Good organisation, negotiation and problem solving skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy.
- Awareness of relevant national policies and procedures pertinent to children’s Speech and Language Therapy, eg School and Preschool Curricula and current best practice, Children’s and Families legislation, Children’s Safeguarding
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dyllis Kilby
- Job title
- Team and Clinical Lead School aged complex care
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743 450800
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