Specialist Speech
1 week ago
Job summary
Band 6: Speech and Language Therapist - Locality Specialist
We have an opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and well-organised Speech and Language Therapist with experience of working within in a community setting.
The post is likely to be based within the Easington Locality (east Durham)
Main duties of the job
This post will provide the opportunity for a clinician to retain their broad based skills working within a community setting. In addition to working with children and young people of all ages, the post-holder will have some line management responsibility for less experienced clinicians within the team. This post offers:
This post offers:
Partnership working with both professionals and families.
The opportunity to work with children with a range of different speech, language and communication needs.
Work within a designated locality, being part of a close knit team.
The opportunity to be involved in developing the children's workforce with support from our clinical leads in workforce development.
Work within a range of community settings including clinics, homes and education settings.
About us
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and ourloved 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 wellbeing initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development. Staffrecognition 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 actively encourage staff involvement with staff networking events and staff survey
"Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool"
Job description
Job responsibilities
To contribute to the coordination, development and provision of a specialist clinical service to children with a complex and diverse range of speech, language and communication difficulties.
Generate appropriate strategies to manage an individual specialist caseload including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of a diverse range of clients with complex developmental speech, language and communication difficulties with support and supervision from locality lead and clinical leads.
Develop and implement specialist care protocols and programmes of care and treatment, to meet the needs of clients in conjunction with their parents, carers, education staff and other members of the appropriate multi-disciplinary team (MDT) with support and supervision from locality lead and lead clinicians.
Independently manage and negotiate the management of complex cases with others onward referral to highly specialist clinicians or other specialist support agencies consultants, Educational Psychologists, with support from the locality lead.
To support less experienced staff in the areas of case and caseload management, providing supervision as appropriate.
To provide day to day management of allocated assistant practitioners and autonomous generalist therapists working in the locality including work allocation and checking, reviewing work performance and progress, and appraisal as required.
To ensure clients/families are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
Provide specialist education, training and supervision to speech and language therapy assistant practitioners and to speech and language therapists with less experience in the management of the client group, with appropriate supervision from the locality lead.
Work with the locality lead to develop and coordinate service provision and policy development for children with speech, language and communication difficulties.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
First degree or equivalent in SLT.
Desirable
Evidence of post-graduate study relevant to the post Evidence of leadership training
Experience
Essential
Experience of working as a SLT, which must have included working with clients with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties Working in partnership with children and parents.
Desirable
Experience of working in a range of environments, including mainstream schools Experience of planning and delivering teaching and training
Skills
Essential
High level problem solving skills Planning, organisation and evaluation skills
Other
Essential
Holds UK driving licence and has access to a car for work purposes
Knowledge
Essential
Knowledge of NHS and Education policies Knowledge of national documents relating to SLCN-
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