Specialist Speech

1 week ago

Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service is an innovative, dynamic and proactive team, committed to developing an effective speech, language & communication service for the children, young people and their families & carers across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. The service is jointly-commissioned by the NHS (Integrated Care Board) and two local authorities and enjoys close collaborative working relationships with those agencies.

The South Tees area serves a richly diverse population with a blend of urban, inner city areas and remote rurality.

The team has an exciting vacancy for a specialist speech & language therapist. The post is full time and is required to provide specialist speech and language support to any children and young people referred to the Speech & Language Therapy Service in homes, daycare and mainstream settings. This is a Band 6 post but we are open to applicants who are currently Band 5 and would be interested in a structured and supported progression into the Band 6 role.

The post has particular responsibility for providing a specialist service to children & young people aged 0-25 years with Special Educational Needs & disabilities (SEND) and/or eating, drinking & swallowing needs; providing a specialist lead and training for colleagues working with this client group and specialist advice to other agencies, professionals, parents & carers.

Main duties of the job

To develop specialised programmes of care and provide specialised advice concerning the care & treatment of clients on the specialist caseload and the wider generalist caseload To assess, plan, deliver & evaluate programmes to address the health and wellbeing needs of children & young people where those needs are complex and change across the caseload To develop knowledge and practice in a specialist area of work To develop own skills and knowledge, and to contribute to the development of others To be responsible for electronic record-keeping into the electronic patient record in a sufficient and timely manner, recording personally generated clinical observations and assessment results Producing letters and reports following specialist assessment, including provision of reports for Safeguarding and Education Health & Care Plans To contribute to all aspects of clinical governance in the Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service

The post will include travelling across the areas of Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland and will include home visits, mainstream and specialist educational settings as well as nurseries and daycare settings.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Training

Essential

Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas (eg experience of and/or training in Makaton, Hanen etc) Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)

Desirable

Relevant accredited courses Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of learning disabilities Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills Able to make judgements involving highly complex information

Desirable

Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework

Experience

Essential

Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties Experience working with children in the specialist area of learning disabilities & dysphagia Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs Experience of clinical audit

Desirable

Experience of delivering lectures/presentations

Personal Attributes

Essential

Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of team leads Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations Proven ability to work successfully in a team Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive' Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area

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