Come and join our Children’s SaLT team in Birmingham: a vibrant multicultural city!
Are you an experienced Band 5 SLT looking for a new challenge?
We’re excited to invite applications for a Band 5 Speech & Language Therapist to join our Children's Eating Drinking and Swallowing (EDS) team in Birmingham, 3 days a week.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced SLT who has completed their post‑competency framework or is close to completion, and who has a strong interest in the area of EDS difficulties, to develop their skills and post‑registration EDS competence, as part of a dynamic, supportive, and forward‑thinking team.
We aim to make our interviews as accessible as possible. Please contact us if you'd like to discuss the reasonable adjustments you may require during your interview.
Responsibilities and Duties
* Work with appropriate supervision as part of a multidisciplinary team, delivering high‑quality assessment and intervention for children with EDS difficulties.
* Work within a locality to develop networks, build skills in the wider workforce, and increase the impact of our interventions.
* Provide Speech and Language Therapy, functioning in partnership with other agencies and disciplines to support the early identification of need.
* Support partners in implementing the Balanced System® across the 3 levels (universal, targeted, and specialist) and 5 strands (family support, workforce, environment, identification, and intervention) of the approach.
* Manage your own caseload of children with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties, including assessment, diagnosis and intervention, with access to supervision, training and advice from Advanced Specialists in EDS.
* Offer intervention in the environment most appropriate to client needs, including schools in your locality, clinics and patient homes.
* Develop professional skills through a range of CPD activities.
* Work as part of multidisciplinary and multi‑agency teams, including educational colleagues, providing early intervention for children and young people.
* Enable and empower staff, parents/caregivers to identify children’s needs and provide strategies to help at the earliest opportunity.
* Use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments and decision‑making.
* Structure clear therapy plans based on best practice.
* Advise and facilitate the decision‑making process regarding patient/client management by ensuring that effective communication is achieved.
* Use highly developed communication skills to explain complex condition‑related information from assessment/therapy plan to clients/carers and multidisciplinary team members.
What We Offer
* Strong support and supervision, including funded and supported access to the EDS post‑registration qualification.
* A welcoming, collaborative team culture with a real focus on learning and professional growth.
* Reduced waiting times for services.
* Clear, evidence‑based intervention pathways.
* Improved staff health, wellbeing and work‑life balance.
If you’re looking to build your expertise in EDS while being genuinely supported to grow, we’d love to hear from you.
This advert closes on Tuesday 31 Mar 2026.
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