Children's Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

5 months ago

Salford, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

**Job overview**:
We are looking for a skilled, enthusiastic Children’s Speech and Language Therapists to work as part of our forward-thinking team. You will be part of a friendly, experienced department who work closely with families and partner agencies to support children and young people’s speech, language and communication needs. We have a well-established service providing a ‘balanced system’ across Salford delivering universal, targeted and specialist levels of support. These SLT roles will be within our SALT Enhanced Service and will involve delivery of clinical interventions in schools and/or specialist resource provisions, delivery and development of our training offer to schools, parents/carers, and colleagues and supervision/support of staff.

Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To deliver specialist clinical work within schools and/or specialist resource provisions as part of a Speech and Language Therapy team.
- To assess and diagnose conditions and to plan and implement specialist Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and treatment and discharge appropriately, using evidence-based practice.
- To provide peer support to and receive peer support from other Speech and Language colleagues.
- To work collaboratively with parents, carers and educators and to support children with a range of communication needs.
- To demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
- To support the development and delivery of training packages to parents/carers and teaching staff.

**Working for our organisation**:
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives. As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three

core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a betterwork-life balance.

We are currently in process of updating our values. For the latest information

around our values and behaviours, please visit our careers website

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:
**Person specification**:
**Registration**:
**Essential criteria**:

- HCPC registration - license to practice
- Member of RCSLT

**Qualifications**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
- Full driving license (car owner/diver essential)

**knowledge, skills and experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Demonstrate excellent specialist knowledge in a wide range of paediatric communication disorders which is underpinned by current evidence based practice.
- Relevant post-graduate experience working in schools.
- Good planning organisational, caseload management and prioritisation skills.
- Knowledge and demonstrated use of up to date assessment tools relevant to client group
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Ability and commitment to deliver training packages
- Basic IT skills
- Good presentation skills both written and verbal

**Knowledge, skills and experience**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Negotiation and problem solving skills
- Good analytical and reflection skills
- Ability to be a good team member and proactive in supporting senior staff and service delivery
- Knowledge of national policies procedures and clinical guidance
- Awareness of principles of clinical governance
- Demonstrates an awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within their role.
- We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care

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