Speech & Language Therapist

6 months ago


Durham, United Kingdom North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Band 5**: Speech and Language Therapist based in Durham

We have an exciting opportunity available for an enthusiastic, motivated and well-organised Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and supportive children’s service. Our children’s SLT service is organised into four locality teams covering the North, East and South of the county. Our band 5 Speech and Language Therapist's work within a designated locality team, supported by a range of specialist SLT's, lead SLT's and SLTAP's.

As a key member of the team you will be passionate about working with children and young people, and will work closely with health colleagues, partner agencies, parents and carers. You will be an excellent communicator and enjoy working both independently and as part of a team in different settings. You will carry a caseload of children and young people with a range of difficulties, with support and supervision from therapists within the team.

**This post will provide you with**:

- experience of working with a mixed and varied caseload of children/young people
- the opportunity to work with other generalist speech and language therapists as well as specialist and clinical lead speech and language therapists
- the opportunity to work within a range of community settings including clinics, homes, nursery and school settings
- experience of multidisciplinary working and close partnership working with parents / carers
- a structured programme of support and supervision

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 will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

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

Generate appropriate strategies to manage an individual caseload including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of a diverse range of clients with a broad range of communication, eating and drinking difficulties with supervision, support and guidance from senior clinicians.

Design and select appropriate means of assessment, analyse assessment data, make appropriate clinical decisions and define a differential diagnosis regarding level of client functioning, with guidance from clinical supervisors as required.

Develop and implement care protocols and programmes of treatment, to meet the needs of clients in conjunction with their carers, other members of the speech and language therapy team and other appropriate multi-disciplinary teams (MDT).

Contribute to discussions on service planning and policy as a member of the clinical team and become actively involved in the implementation of policy and service development through membership of departmental working groups.

Structure and implement evidence-based, individually tailored intervention programmes for clients, families and other professionals based on current understanding of best practice guidelines with support and guidance from senior clinicians.

Systematically evaluate clients’, carers’ and professionals’ responses to intervention, monitor change, and review and implement current or new care plans in light of up to date evidence regarding client status with support and guidance from senior clinicians.



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