Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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💼 Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

📍 Manchester, England

🕒 1 day ago

💰 33706 – 40588 GBP ANNUAL

Job Description

The Manchester Speech and Language Therapy Service is committed to providing a high-quality service to children and families across the city of Manchester. This is apublic heath roleand forms part of Manchester city council response as a trailblazer for the development of the government fundedFamily Hubs initiative.

We are looking for 2 experienced, flexible and enthusiasticband 6 Speech and Language Therapiststo join the established Communication and Language Early Years team of Speech and Language therapists and Language development workers.

The focus of the established team has been to embed a citywide, multi agency communication and language pathway to provide early identification and support for children with moderate language difficulties. This has been developed as part of Manchester’s drive to improve children’s school readiness and life outcomes.

This is an excitingnewinitiativeto develop and deliver an extended Communication and Language support offer for early years children displaying social communication difficulties.

These are 2 a permanent Band 6 full time posts - 37.5 hours per week

There is a strong training requirement within this role delivering information to both parents and the early years workforce to impact on children’s learning environments both at home and within early years provision. The role would also provide an opportunity to be involved in the development of Greater Manchester initiatives to support children’s language development in their early years across GMCA

Training on the use of the SACR screen will be provided and is an integral part of this new social communication pathway offer for children.

You will provide support to:

the language development workers in the team.
Early Years settings
Families

Please see job description for further information.

MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

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