Head of Speech and Language Therapy

4 months ago


Carlisle, United Kingdom North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

To provide professional leadership across the IHCS.
- In collaboration with the Associate director of AHPs (ADAHP), represent the profession internally and externally as required.
- To be professionally accountable for service provision.
- To manage inpatient, outpatient and community Speech and Language Therapy Services ensuring the robust clinical management of specialties within the service.
- To be responsible for the long term strategic planning and development of the Service to meet System and National Requirements.
- To manage the departmental budget(s) ensuring resources are deployed effectively and financial targets are met.
- To ensure the System has a high quality integrated Professional service that is flexible and able to meet the clinical needs of the population it serves within the resources available.
- To professional manage professionals employed within MDTs across the Care Groups
- To carry a clinical caseload in an area that best suits the needs of the System, Service and the post holder for a maximum of one day per week

Previous applicants need not apply
- To provide leadership to the professional staff group within the System ensuring that professional standards are set, implemented, monitored and maintained.
- To manage the service specific staff within SLT Services to include recruitment, retention through career development and appraisal, management of poor performance and sickness absence.
- To represent The Profession within the System and externally participating in professional and multi
- agency forums across the region and nationally as required ensuring the wider contribution from the profession.
- To work closely with the ADAHP to develop an environment of flexibility and interdisciplinary co-operation leading to the provision of a comprehensive and responsive professional service to patients and carers.
- To provide professional advice to Clinical care Groups and Partnership Organisations based upon evidence and good practice.
- To take a lead role in workforce planning and career structure design for the profession within the System to inform recruitment and retention within the service.
- To ensure that the service is provided within designated budget, identifying and delivering efficiency measures as appropriate.
- To oversee the education of the professions’ students, co-ordinating practice placements and liaising with University and Colleges
- To be responsible for own continued professional development

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see ourPolicyfor eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

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