Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist

1 month ago


StocktononTees County Durham, United Kingdom North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Band 7 Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist - Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Difficulties

Children's Service - Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton

We have an exciting opportunity available, having created a new leadership post within the service. We are keen to recruit a speech and language therapist who is enthusiastic and motivated about working with children with a diverse range of neurodevelopmental disabilities including eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

There is some flexibility in the location of the base for this post and there may be scope for the role to be offered on a part time basis.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide leadership across Darlington, Hartlepool and Stockton, leading, coordinating and developing the clinical service for the client group.

The post holder will:

  • be passionate about improving health outcomes.
  • work closely with health colleagues, partner agencies, parents and carers.
  • have the opportunity to manage a highly specialist clinical caseload.
  • work with other leads to ensure equity of provision in the service.
  • be part of a dynamic, forward thinking and professional service with a strong commitment to CPD and supervision.

The service promotes work-life balance and supports flexible working arrangements.

About us

At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones. We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.

We support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

We recruit for values and Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Key responsibilities of this role include:

To lead on the development and coordination of service provision and policy for the clinical area, including pathway development with reference to evidence based practice.

To work collaboratively with other leads to coordinate services across the whole of the childrens service to ensure equitable provision.

To ensure that staff at all levels within the childrens SLT team have access to CPD opportunities and supervision in the clinical area at an appropriate level to develop and/or maintain the required skills and competencies to carry out their role.

To ensure provision of a highly specialist integrated service to the client group.

To advise the Service Leads on service delivery issues relating to the client group, including pressures and shortfalls.

To generate appropriate strategies to manage an individual highly specialist caseload including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of a diverse range of clients in the clinical area with a range of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties.

To develop and implement highly specialist care protocols and programmes of care and treatment, to meet the needs of clients in conjunction with their parents, carers, education staff and other members of the appropriate multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

To independently manage and/or negotiate the management of complex cases with others e.g. onward referral to highly specialist clinicians or other specialist support agencies e.g. consultants, psychologists.

To ensure clients/families are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.

To adapt practice to meet individual client circumstances including regard for cultural and linguistic differences.

To provide highly specialist education, training and supervision to speech and language therapy assistant practitioners, volunteers, and to speech and language therapists with less experience in the management of the client group.

To provide highly specialist advice and second opinions to less experienced clinicians.

To continually evaluate the effectiveness of care protocols and packages of care, audit and implement changes as appropriate in conjunction with other Clinical Leads / line manager.

To continually evaluate clinical effectiveness of intervention with individual clients, negotiate and implement changes.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential


  • Degree or equivalent qualification in SLT.
  • Masters degree or equivalent postgraduate knowledge.
  • Post graduate qualification in dysphagia.

Experience

Essential


  • Significant experience working as a SLT
  • Experience of working with clients who have swallowing difficulties
  • Working as part of a MDT

Desirable


  • Experience of planning and coordinating across a clinical or non clinical area of service
  • Experience of supervising staff

Skills

Essential


  • High level problem solving skills.
  • Flexibility in approach
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Knowledge

Essential


  • Knowledge of clinical guidelines relating to severe and complex learning difficulties
  • Broad knowledge of NHS and Education policies

Management and Supervision

Essential


  • Well developed leadership skills

Desirable


  • Experience of supervising staff

Employer details

Employer name

North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Hartlepool, Stockton and Darlington

Stockton

STockton

TS19 8PE

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