East Locality Co-ordinator | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 08 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 08 May 2024 |
| Location: | 317 Regent Point, NE3 3HD |
| Company: | The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6201425/317-2024-15-10-DR |
Summary
12 month temporary, part time (22.5 hours per week)band 7 post with the Newcastle Paediatric Speech & Language Therapy Team.
The role is to co-ordinate the mainstream service for the East of the city ensuring staff are deployed in the most efficient way and to contribute to the development, monitoring and evaluation of pathways of care for children in Early Years. There is a requirement to line manage band 6 and 5 SLT’s and assistants. We require someone with highly specialist skills in early years and substantial experience in school, pre-school and clinic settings. You should be confident in co-ordinating the work of others and providing case management advice to less experienced staff. There is good support from the Early Years Lead, School Age Lead and from the whole team. There are opportunities for continuing professional development
• Interview date: 3rd may 2024
• 22 hours 30 minutes /week
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy.
• Assessment and management of complex children in mainstream settings
• Caseload management and assigning cases to colleagues
• Line management
• To contribute to the planning of appropriate intervention for the mainstream paediatric caseload
• To work with the Early Years and School Age Leads, and west Locality
Coordinator, to monitor and develop services
• To provide line management and supervision of less experienced SLTs andSLTAs including appraisal
Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion.
We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.
We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.
Our staff oversee around 2 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.
Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust.
We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.
• To coordinate the mainstream service for children in the East of the city ensuring staff are deployed in the most efficient way to meet the needs of children
• To contribute to the development, monitoring and evaluation of pathways of care
• To be a highly specialist therapist for children with suspected Developmental Language Disorder, providing highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention plans
• To provide line management to SLTs and SLTAs
• To provide case management supervision and support to less experienced SLTs
• To supervise the work of Specialist SLTs in the LEAPS specialist role
• To hold own caseload
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.
This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Apr 2024
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