Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

**Job overview**:
We are seeking a passionate, innovative and experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our Children's Speech and Language Therapy Team in Oldham.

Working as part of an integrated team, you will lead on planned therapy programmes and interventions across mainstream schools and preschool complex teams.

You should have experience working with children and young people, demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a passion for delivering excellent care in the heart of the community.

You will have the opportunity to:

- Work with a multilingual population alongside interpreters and bilingual co-workers.
- Work with families, schools and professionals providing functional targets and high-quality care for children and families.
- Access professional development, training opportunities, regular supervision and peer support to develop your clinical specialism.
- Join our induction programme and take part in our staff well-being initiative. We are proud to have a certified well-being champion in our Team.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us, therefore are happy to consider part time hours or flexible working requests.

If this sounds right for you, please apply Visits or further discussion about the role welcome.

**Main duties of the job**:

- To provide a high level of clinical expertise in managing a caseload of preschool and school aged children and young people with complex speech, language and communication difficulties.
- To develop and implement individualised care plans, based on best practice, which reflect the specialist nature of the intervention required to meet the needs of cases.
- To develop and communicate appropriate strategies to facilitate the child’s communicative effectiveness, including work in multidisciplinary teams and joint working with trained interpreters and bilingual assistants in languages other than English, overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers to communication and acceptance.
- This will also involve a highly specialist clinical advisory role to specialist and non-specialist therapists, providing second opinions, shadowing, mentoring and clinical supervision as well as contributing to clinical support interest groups and peer audit.
- 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 be responsible for and continuing own and other’s professional development and learning, accessing supervision and being aware of learning needs and service needs.

**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**:
**clinical and leadership**:
**Essential criteria**:

- Relevant specialist experience of complex clinical caseload management
- Relevant experience of working collaboratively with families and other services
- Evidence of Implementation of evidence-based and child centred interventions relevant to clinical caseload
- Experience of assessment for a wide range of children's speech, language and communication needs
- Experience of involvement in managing/leading projects and delegating tasks/ allocate work to othersmembers of staff and students

**Desirable criteria**:

- Experience of writing and delivering training packages
- Experience of leading/managing projects and delegating tasks/ allocating work to others
- Working flexibly in different contexts, including IT systems
- Demonstrates good skills in negotiation and managing conflict
- An interest in and working knowledge in Total Communication strategie