Indigo Speech and Language Therapist
Manchester, Greater Manchester (with hybrid working - two days per week in the office)

About Us

Nationally significant and focused on a fair and equal society, we are the LGBT Foundation, a charity supporting the needs of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender.

Serving over 40,000 people each and every year, we provide information to a further 200,000 individuals online, making us one of the most significant charities of our kind in the UK. We help all LGBT people to achieve their full potential and aim to be ‘here if you need us’.

Our Indigo Gender Service is an NHS commissioned Primary Care Service for trans and non-binary people in Greater Manchester. It launched in December 2020 and continues to deliver safe, timely and affirmative health care to our service users as part of our mission to support trans and non-binary people to thrive.

We’re now looking for an Indigo Speech and Language Therapist to join our Indigo Gender Service on a full-time, permanent basis, working 37 hours per week. This will require working evenings, weekends and some longer days.

The Benefits

- Salary of £28,921 per annum
- 26 days’ annual leave (rising to 30 days after 5 years’ service)
- Sector leading 10% employers’ contributory pension
- Your birthday as a day of leave
- Staff counselling scheme
- Cycle to Work/Technology Scheme
- Season Ticket Loan
- Office ‘buddy’ scheme for all new starters
- Free annual flu jab
- Free VDU eye care test
- Staff social budget
- Dedicated training budget for each member of staff and support with Personal Development Plans
- Flexible working to support a healthy work/life balance (including time off in lieu and flexitime)
- Relaxed dress code

This is an incredible opportunity for a qualified speech and language therapist to support the trans and gender-diverse community within our exceptional organisation.

We're dedicated to supporting your growth and development every step of the way. You'll have the chance to undertake a fully funded postgraduate qualification in Gender Healthcare at the Royal College of Physicians (Online), enabling you to expand your portfolio, enrich your skill set and empower you to make an even greater difference in the lives of others.

So, if you’re eager to drive meaningful progress, seize this opportunity to join us in making a difference. Apply today and let's create positive change together!

The Role

As an Indigo Speech and Language Therapist, you will help trans and gender-diverse people explore how best to support and facilitate the development of an authentic voice through our speech and language therapy service.

In this key role, you will assess, treat and manage a caseload of people and collaborate with others to deliver a community-based, user-focused service. This will include undertaking pre-referrals, referrals and triaging, completing assessments, taking part in interventions and discharging patients.

Additionally, you will:

- Provide advice and training to colleagues
- Promote the service externally
- Review and update resources
- Identify and address complex cases
- Collate data and produce reports
- Design therapy activities
- Maintain comprehensive service user records

About You

To be considered as an Indigo Speech and Language Therapist, you will need:

- To be a qualified speech and language therapist
- A current HCPC registration
- A current RCSLT registration
- Experience of delivering voice and/or trans voice and communication care
- Experience of providing professional training to clients, carers and members of a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of service development, evaluation and improvement
- Experience of working with service users to improve service delivery
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Please note, you will be routinely required to work evenings, weekends and some longer days.

The closing date for this role is 20th May 2024.

Other organisations may call this role Speech Therapist, Language Therapist, Speech and Language Specialist, Speech and Language Consultant, Speech and Language Therapy Consultant, Speech and Language Therapy Specialist, Adult Speech and Language Therapist, Clinical Speech and Language Specialist, or Clinical Speech and Language Therapist.

We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans, non-binary and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our leadership team.

*Trans is an umbrella and inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross dressers and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.

So, if you want to make a real difference in people’s lives as an Indigo Speech and Language Therapist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.