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05.05.2025
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Job overview
Are you a Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist with a broad range of clinical skills and experience? Do you strive to achieve the best possible outcomes for children and young people with speech, language and communication needs? Are you flexible and motivated? Do you work well in a team? Then we are the team for you!
We are looking for Band 6 Speech and Language Therapists on a permanent basis to work within our friendly and established teams of both Therapists and Assistant Practitioners across a range of settings and specialties within Swansea Bay including Flying Start. This could include working within Flying start settings, mainstream schools, community clinics and specialist teaching units supporting a variety of communication needs.
We are a welcoming and forward thinking team working closely with our partners in the Local Authority, schools, support services and Health. The post holder will also benefit from professional support and development opportunities from specialist SLT colleagues, Band 7 SLT leads, as well as multi- agency members of the wider team.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidates will be passionate, hard-working and dynamic with an interest in service improvement. They will have excellent team working skills including experience of working with multi-agencies and across teams. The post holders will work as an autonomous practitioner to assess, diagnose and manage a range of speech, language and communication difficulties in a shared specialist caseload of children and young people across the footprint. You will support and facilitate student placements and mentor new members of staff. Experience of working in and managing a number of schools is desirable but support will be given. Working with Welsh medium pupils forms part of the role and so the ability to speak Welsh is desirable. There will be opportunities to gain skills organising and creating training, developing supervision skills and participating in total team development days and team meetings. You will also work with our senior therapists and wider team to ensure our service provides efficient, effective, patient centred care.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications & Training
* Recognised SLT degree or equivalent
* Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC
* Completion of postgraduate specialist courses e.g. Dysphagia etc.
* CEN member
Experience
* Assessment and management of individuals with severe and complex disabilities
* Support and mentor less experienced SLT's, students and assistants
* Use and interpretation of assessments for specialist caseload
* Experience and knowledge of use of AAC
* Planning and delivery of clinical audit
* Experience and implementation of a range of specialist treatment options for individuals and groups
* Training or teaching of SLTS, other professionals, medical staff and assistants
* Ability to plan, prioritise and manage specialist caseload without direct supervision
* Working within an MDT
Knowledge and Skills
* Specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence-based practice
* Accurate administration and analysis of assessments leading to differential diagnosis
* Good verbal and written skills to share complex and sensitive information
* Able to work unsupervised and independently as an active member of MDT negotiating case management
* Demonstrates understanding of wider public service policies
* Implementation of clinical governance/audits/research within own specialism
* Ability to use Microsoft packages including virtual platforms, spreadsheets etc
* Experience of conflict resolution
* Ability to speak Welsh
Personal Attributes
* Demonstrates understanding of own scope of practise and peson centred care
* Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner to meet the business needs
* Ambassador for Speech and Language Therapy profession, department and Health Board
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
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