Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

3 weeks ago


Heywood, United Kingdom Northern Care Alliance NHS Group Full time

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge. Together, we’ve a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore. If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
- **come and take your place with us.**

**Job overview**:
**SALT-Ed - Speech and Language Therapy in Education**
- An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as a Highly Specialist SLT within the school commissioned speech and language therapy service in Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale (HMR). Our dynamic team work within local schools to develop the speech and language needs of their cohort in collaboration with the teaching staff.- The post-holder will provide specialist assessment and treatment/discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication difficulties in the schools commissioned service. This is a specialist post working with young people with a history of Social and Emotional Mental Health difficulties, Social Communication Disorders and Significant Communication Needs.-
**Main duties of the job**:

- Key Responsibilities of the Post:
- To support and educate practitioners in a range of secondary and further education settings in relation to children and young people's speech, language and communication needs.- To liaise with and offer advice in the management and implementation of Speech and Language Therapy programmes and to monitor and evaluate progress and revise programmes accordingly.- To demonstrate a good degree of knowledge around young people's Social and Emotional Mental Health Difficulties, Complex Communication disorders and Trauma informed care, and how this relates to their communication needs.- To provide and demonstrate specialist evidence based programmes of care and follow care pathways and published evidence-based packages of care.- To provide leadership and support to junior members of the team including one to one supervision, IPDR, clinical supervision and first line management response where required.- To provide clinical expertise based on evidence based practice.- To work independently managing a caseload of clients with a range of SLCN- This post can be offered as 4 days**Working for our organisation**:
Rochdale Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place destined to be different. Rochdale puts co-operation and co-design at the forefront of its health and social care. This is the place with community based integrated care at its heart. Rochdale Infirmary, and the adult and children’s community services across Heywood Middleton and Rochdale, consists of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors. A place leading the way in life-enhancing, integrated care.

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

- Member of RCSLT
- HPC Registration - Licence to Practise
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to clinical area.
- To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge in clinical fields underpinned by current evidence based practice.
- To develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including Safeguarding Children, SEN procedures, Working with Vulnerable Children and other legal frameworks.

**Desirable criteria**:

- To attend relevant meetings and special interest groups.
- Experience of working with children and young people with complex communication needs.
- Experience of working with children and young people with behavioural needs or those who offend
- Experience of working in a Secondary School or Further Education environment

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**Employer certification / accreditation badges**:
**Applicant requirements**:

- You must have appropriate UK professional registration.



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