Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

2 months ago


Chester, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you a qualified Speech and Language Therapist with a drive to work with children?

Well we have the perfect job role for you

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to be an integral part of our excellent service in Chester, Ellesmere Port and surrounding areas.

If successful you will be working with children and young people in a number of settings, completing assessments and intervention for a wide variety of conditions. You will be an integral part of our innovative and supportive paediatric team, working closely with Speech and Language Therapy colleagues and other professionals.

We very much like to support CPD and development opportunities within CCICP in order to help personal and professional progression within your role. Our Speech and Language Therapy team are an innovative, supportive and welcoming group of professionals.
- To work autonomously to manage a defined patient caseload whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- To contribute to the delivery of the service in a variety of defined clinical setting.
- To utilise effective communication skills to ensure clinical advice and treatment programmes are delivered sensitively, taking into consideration the needs of carers.
- To undertake clinical assessment, taking into account all relevant information and clinical reasoning to formulate evidence based individualised treatment plans in agreement with the patient.
- To implement individual and/or group interventions for patients.
- To monitor progress and review treatment plans and interventions to facilitate the achievement of goals.
- To provide appropriate oral and written information/ reports for patients and carers/ referring agencies where relevant.
- To develop and maintain good working relationships with other healthcare professions, social care and other appropriate agencies, to ensure integrated and high quality patient outcome.
- To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to decisions with regard to patient care programmes through attendance at multidisciplinary meetings.
- To maintain accurate documentation in line with professional standards, and local policies and procedures.
- To ensure the safe and timely discharge of patients from the caseload, liaising with other agencies as required.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Information on job roles and responsibilities are found in the main job description and person specification attached.



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