Speech and Language Therapist
3 weeks ago
Job summary
We are offering an exciting opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare's dynamic and friendly team of Community Paediatric Therapists. We work in a variety of settings including schools, nurseries, early years settings and children and young people's homes.
We are looking for enthusiastic and innovative Therapists who can contribute a range of skills and experiences to our Speech and Language Therapy team.
Good organisational and time management skills are essential along with excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to effectively contribute to clinical teams to ensure well co-ordinated care plans and high standards of service delivery.
You will be familiar with both appropriate standardised and informal assessments and a range of intervention approaches to this client group.
Main duties of the job
To develop and improve the speech, language and communication skills of children and young people in given locations, through support and intervention, liaison and joint working with other staff and parents/carers and across agencies, to maximise their potential and enable their maximum participation and inclusion within society.
We can offer:
robust team-based approach to caseload management and the highest quality service provision a well-established network of support, clinical supervision and mentorship a personal approach to induction, preceptorship and continued professional development including to fully achieve NQP competencies collaborative working with a team of highly skilled, dedicated team of Assistant SLT's successful partnership working with colleagues in Health, Education and Children's ServicesWe have a nationally recognised track record of innovation and clinical excellence. Teams are encouraged to explore new ways of implementing evidence into practice. Close links are maintained with Newcastle University and Therapists have full access to library and R&D facilities within the Trust.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Essential Criteria:
recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent HCPC licence to practice registered member of RCSLT car driverDesirable Criteria:
previous experience of working within the Paediatric SLT field experience of working in partnership with Education and Early Years partnersThe post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent Health and Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Experience
Essential
Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level-
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