CAMHS CLA (City) Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job summary

Use your clinical expertise to make a lasting difference to the lives of children and young people.

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist sought to join our CAMHS Looked After Children's Team, to support children whose early experiences may have included trauma, neglect and loss.

Working within a specialist, trauma-informed multidisciplinary team, you will help identify and address speech, language and communication needs, enabling young people to express themselves, build relationships, and engage fully.

Key responsibilities include:

Specialist speech, language and communication assessments.Delivering evidence-based, individualised interventions.Consultation, advice and trainingContributing to service development and quality improvement.

We offer excellent support, monthly clinical supervision with the Clinical Lead SLT, strong peer networks, multidisciplinary working, and outstanding CPD opportunities.

Based at St Ann's Valley Centre, Nottingham, this role offers the chance to help young people find their voice, strengthen relationships, improve emotional wellbeing, and achieve better outcomes.

Every child deserves to be heard. Join us and help them thrive.

We encourage informal enquiries.

Please contact

Danielle Haddon, Clinical Lead SLT [email protected] or Matthew Jenkins, Team Manager CAMHS LAC (City) [email protected]

Main duties of the job

What We're Looking For

A qualified Speech and Language Therapist with HCPC registrationSignificant experience working with children and young people with SLCN, ideally in youth justice, social care, or CAMHSExcellent clinical reasoning, advocacy, and interpersonal skillsA commitment to anti-racism, trauma-informed practice, and inclusive communicationConfidence working autonomously and collaboratively in fast-paced environments

You will be contributing to a multi-disciplinary service supporting children and young people accessing CAMHS. This will include:

Carrying out specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessments and bespoke packages of intervention, including specialist reports, recommendations and bespoke resources.

Developing Training / advice in collaboration with the MDT to support the CYP, and CAMHS.

SLTs in CAMHS are a core part of the multi-disciplinary team, supporting the understanding of the patients communication needs, contributing towards neurodiversity diagnostic assessment and writing neuro-affirming reports using a neuro-affirmative approach to support individuals and people in their lives to understand their neurodevelopmental and communication differences.

About us

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 10,500 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health and forensic health services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 80 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings and secure environments.

We are one of the largest mental health and community health Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.

Job responsibilities

You will be responsible for completing specialist speech and language therapy assessments and contributing to the identification of speech, language and communication needs

You will highlight communication risks and reasonable adjustments when providing 1:1 interventions and when formulating as part of the MDT.

where appropriate you will contribute to neurodevelopmental assessment and report writing.

You will contribute directly to offering bespoke therapeutic interventions working directly with service users, carers and families, the MDT and other agencies.

The role requires a high level of clinical and professional expertise to ensure that children and young people with speech, language and communication needs accessing CAMHS, can benefit from a well co-ordinated pro-active, specialist, efficient and effective speech and language therapy service within the designated setting.

The service includes individual assessment, therapy and management, training, advice and liaison.

We have various CPD opportunities including a SLT journal club and it is an opportunity for anyone who is interested in continuing their academic development whilst in the role.

All Speech & Language Therapy employees must hold a relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy and be registered with RCSLT and HCPC.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised AHP Degree/diploma
• Professional body Registered
• HCPC Registered

Training

Essential

• Portfolio of relevant post qualification
• CPD highly including specialist knowledge of professional interventions and evaluations.
• Clinical educator

Desirable

• Post-graduate training specific to client group
• Relevant Masters modules or completed programme
• Leadership training

Experience

Essential

• Working experience of assessing and managing a complex caseload with young people and/or adults with profession specific needs in specialist area
• Experience of effective multi-disciplinary/agency working and established interpersonal and negotiation skills
• Experience of designing and delivering different learning and development opportunities for staff teams.
• Experience in developing evaluation / audit tools and resources as part of profession/multi-professional team
• Experience of leading the clinical and professional development of others including students

Desirable

• Experience of leading / managing project work.
• Experience of research, audit, service evaluation and/or quality improvement projects - setting up, evaluating, reporting and application
• Identifies clinical risks and carries out MDT/ Trust Risk assessments and formulation for individuals, groups or services highlighting needs
• Experience of collaboration across teams, services, and other stakeholders outside of the Trust

Knowledge

Essential

• Highly specialist applied clinical knowledge
• Knowledge of National Policy and guidance and impact on local practice.
• Applied leadership knowledge.
• Knowledge of Risk Assessment and ability to ensure effective risk management strategies within specialism.

Desirable

• Highly specialist knowledge of how mental and physical health contribute to risk assessment and support management.
• Contributed to regional and national clinical projects and/or strategic work

Skills

Essential

• Empathetic and psychologically minded
• Excellent written and oral communication skills for a variety of audiences, and in situations
• Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
• Excellent clinical reasoning skills
• Leadership skills
• Extensive experience of supporting other staff and students
• Motivated and a motivator
• Team builder and team member
• Autonomous and able to work without direct supervision
• Reflective practitioner
• Ability to manage own wellbeing with access to supervision to sustain this
• IT skills - to support clinical and service needs and developments

Desirable

• Experience of managing a project or service initiative.

Contractual requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites