Children's Speech & Language Therapist

We have an exciting opportunity for a B5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established and friendly team.
You'll be passionate about working with children and families. You'll be keen to progress in our busy, pro-active environment where we offer opportunities to develop clinical skills and to get involved with service development from an early stage in your career.
We offer frequent management supervision, regular team meetings and robust specialist clinical support. Evidence-based practice is embedded and CPD is actively encouraged. We work across schools, clinics and children's centres together with education and nursery staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Specialist Teachers, carers and families. We work with multi-lingual families together with bi-lingual assistants and interpreters. If you have are positive, enthusiastic and keen to develop your skills then we are keen to hear from you!
Please click on the link below to watch a short video about working as a Speech and Language Therapist at Northern Care Alliance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjTkm_vKeoc, + Take your place with us providing assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
+ You will assess, treat and review children in face-to-face and video appointments.
+ You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
+ You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
+ You will work in clinics, education settings, children's centres and family homes.
+ You will drive continuous improvement with your innovation and passion for developing new ways of working.
+ You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children's workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three
core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.
We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information
around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website
https://www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk, To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will be only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.