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Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist who enjoys working with children? Would you like to play a central role in service development & help to lead others? 

I'm Mat, the Community Operational Manager for Paediatrics in CCICP, and I would love to tell you about an opportunity to come and join our Children and Young People Speech and Language Service based in our South Cheshire locality,

This role would be centred around providing assessment and intervention for pre-school children in the Early Years & complex needs sector, as well as then providing support to therapists working in clinic settings. We are looking for an experienced therapist who has extensive knowledge and skills in working with young children and their families, with excellent understanding of local and national strategies. The role may also involve working with children with complex needs.

This role would also involve leadership over the team of Early Years & Complex needs therapists, including providing direct peer supervision, evaluation and monitoring of caseloads, and help with discussions around career progression. You would also link directly in with me as an operational manager to provide data and reassurance around delivery of this element of the service.

You would be well supported by an excellent locality manager, and would receive consistent peer support from the wider team around you. The role would also have opportunity for career development and progression.

Main duties of the job

• To act as an expert source of knowledge, offering specialist clinical advice and support to other healthcare professional and agencies across organisational boundaries
• To work autonomously to manage a defined highly complex patient caseload whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• To contribute to the delivery of the service in a variety of defined clinical settings, with specific focus on the Early Years Service.
• To provide clinical leadership to the Early Years service team including peer supervision &  Motiv8 conversations
• To collect and analyse data around the Early Years service team to provide reassurance re service delivery
• To work alongside the locality lead for Speech and Language Therapy to help to manage the Early Years Service team
• To actively contribute innovate ideas and lead on the development and implementation of service improvements.
• To initiate, plan, deliver and evaluate formal and informal training to other health care professional staff groups, patients and carers, across a range of settings.
• To ensure effective day to day organisation and provision of service, including the coordination of junior staff and assistants to meet service priorities.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008. 

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health. 

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal. 

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE. 

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients.  We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives. 

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.