Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 23 months (Or secondment opportunity for internal applicants)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Term time hours
- Annualised hours
- Job ref
- 825-6385649-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Monkmoor Campus
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Children's Advanced Practitioner & Clinical Lead SLT in DLD-SSD
NHS AfC: Band 7
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you’ve been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
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Job overview
This is an opportunity to develop your career and your practice with children in mainstream schools with Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Speech Disorder at Band 7 until summer 2026.
The role provides opportunities to develop both your clinical and team leadership, and your service delivery and performance management skills.
This is a time of change, with new roles emerging within our specialist teams. This secondment opportunity will allow you to shape the role of support workers, develop further quality assurance processes and help practitioners from different backgrounds to develop their careers in children's SLT.
If you would like to
- Be part of the Children's SLT leadership team; implementing, developing, and evaluating the SSLIC service and supporting the delivery of evidence based outcomes across the SLT service for children with DLD and SSD
- Provide clinical leadership for the SSLIC service. To work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver a an integrated model of care, making a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities
- Be responsible for issues relating to clinical and best practice in schools alongside education colleagues
- And continue to provide direct highly specialist SLT care for children, their families and school staff
This will be a fascinating role for you to consider.
Main duties of the job
- To provide clinical leadership for the service to Children and Young People with complex needs and associated with developmental language disorder and specific speech disorder, and to Families, Health Professionals and School based staff who support them. Together with Team Leaders and other Clinical Leads within the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Team and relevant Managers of Children’s Services, to be responsible for issues relating to clinical practice and quality and for the performance of the team.
- To develop and maintain positive relationships with Pre School and School based staff, and other relevant professionals and service managers to promote the early identification of Speech, Language and Communication Needs, the implementation of evidence-based interventions and the skills of the children’s workforce in meeting these needs.
- To provide highly-specialist and high-quality assessment and intervention in Community and where needed Specialist settings for children with complex and specific speech and language needs including for children and young people with additional learning, physical or sensory difficulties, their carers, and educators.
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff including to children attending mainstream schools, their families and education staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Holds recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent.
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist courses up to Master’s Degree or equivalent or advanced experiential training within specialism.
- Holds Health Professions Council license to practice.
- Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
- Member of RCSLT Clinical Excellence Networks
- Advanced experiential training within specialism.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience at an advanced practitioner level in Speech and Language Therapy for Children and Young People with complex and specific Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Speech Disorder
- Demonstrable evidence of continued professional development in assessing and meeting the needs of school aged children and young people with complex and specific Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Speech Disorder
- Experience at post graduate level of delivering and evaluating relevant training and coaching programmes.
- Experience of leadership through at least one of the following; the development of innovative clinical practice, project management, data collection and analysis, involvement in staff or change management.
- Experience in supporting clinical staff to meet their clinical competencies.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to Children’s Speech and Language Therapy, for children with complex and specific Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Speech Disorder, Children and Young People’s Education, and Safeguarding.
- Demonstrate knowledge of national guidance on the care of children with complex and specific Developmental Language Disorder and Specific Speech Disorder
- High level of understanding of current professional issues
- Facilitative style of leadership.
- Understanding of professional education and Annual Appraisal review process. .
- Experience in researching and presenting evidence based practices.
- Ability to undertake critical appraisal of research.
- Ability to analyse complex data and present findings
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Parkinson
- Job title
- Clinical Services Manager & Children's AHP Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01743450847
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