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Job overview

Alder Hey is a specialist centre for children and Adults with Craniosynostosis. It is a large multi disciplinary team made up of surgeons and AHPs. Children attend Alder Hey from a wide geographical distance for holistic care of their craniofacial condition, this includes assessment and management of their speech language and communication skills. The Craniofacial team is a well established team who promote in house growth and development, including an active role in clinical audit and research. 

The Speech & language therapy team is a small but very active team within the hospital, with further opportunities for development and leadership experience. 

This job requires both clinical and non clinical experience in craniofacial conditions, and the successful candidate will be able to assess and diagnose complex speech and language difficulties and be confident in a multi disciplinary environment, contributing to multi disciplinary discussions and decision making around treatment plans. 

Main duties of the job

  To be an advanced clinical specialist for the supra-regional craniofacial team.

·      As an autonomous practitioner with an advanced level of knowledge, skills and experience to assess, diagnose and manage complex patients on one’s own caseload.

·       To manage and provide clinical support for specialist SLTs across the managed clinical network in the field of craniofacial conditions and related disorders by sharing advanced clinical skills and knowledge.

·       To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of one’s professional and clinical work, working to agreed national and professional standards.

·       To plan, deliver and evaluate training within the specialist area of craniofacial conditions.

·       To provide a high quality service working collaboratively with local speech and language therapy services

·       To initiate and undertake audit and service evaluation

·       To support and line manage other members of the team

To attend multi disciplinary craniofacial clinics and provide specialist level SALT advice in a consultant led environment

To contribute to complex patient discussions around treatment plans 

To assess and provide therapy to complex craniofacial patients from all over the region

To undertake regular audit and lead service improvement 

Working for our organisation

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.