Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team Lead
| Posting date: | 16 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 15 June 2024 |
| Location: | Scunthorpe, DN15 7BH |
| Company: | Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6316325/208-A2D8F4-24-1 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experience therapist who wishes to expand and develop skills in leading a Team. Are you self-motivated, friendly and enthusiastic? Come and join our Children’s Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire.
As part of this role you will co-lead a team of Speech and Language Therapists and non-registered staff. This includes managing performance, service development, audit and ensuring the smooth day to day running of the service. You will work alongside other Band 7 Leads across our Children’s Therapy team to support the development of the service as a whole. This post gives a great opportunity for you to develop and shape the service.
Your job clinically will be to provide expert clinical advice/ second opinions, intervention and management for a specialist complex caseload. You will also be responsible for dysphagia management of a caseload (full training and competencies support provided). There is scope for you to identify possible areas of Clinical Specialism which you might be interested in.You should have extensive experience working in paediatrics with complex communication difficulties. Experience in Team leader responsibilities would be desirable; full supervision will be provided. We are able to offer this post as a development opportunity if applicants do not have the essential criteria, in which case we would expect that competencies would be developed within 12 months.
To take the lead in day to day management and leadership of a small Speech and Language Therapy Team consisting of registered and non registered roles. To be responsible for the planning, development, maintenance and evaluation of the Children’s Therapy Service, contributing to the strategic planning and informing the Operational lead for Children’s Therapies of any developments and needs.
To take provide expert clinical specialist management in children’s therapy, including the advanced management of children with diverse presentations and a wide variety of complex communication needs.
To be responsible for managing their own caseload and the supervision, education and assessment of students, assistants and junior therapists in their area. They will provide specialised advice to other professionals in this specific clinical area.
To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024
This is an exciting opportunity for an experience therapist who wishes to expand and develop skills in leading a Team. Are you self-motivated, friendly and enthusiastic? Come and join our Children’s Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire.
As part of this role you will co-lead a team of Speech and Language Therapists and non-registered staff. This includes managing performance, service development, audit and ensuring the smooth day to day running of the service. You will work alongside other Band 7 Leads across our Children’s Therapy team to support the development of the service as a whole. This post gives a great opportunity for you to develop and shape the service.
Your job clinically will be to provide expert clinical advice/ second opinions, intervention and management for a specialist complex caseload. You will also be responsible for dysphagia management of a caseload (full training and competencies support provided). There is scope for you to identify possible areas of Clinical Specialism which you might be interested in.You should have extensive experience working in paediatrics with complex communication difficulties. Experience in Team leader responsibilities would be desirable; full supervision will be provided. We are able to offer this post as a development opportunity if applicants do not have the essential criteria, in which case we would expect that competencies would be developed within 12 months.
To take the lead in day to day management and leadership of a small Speech and Language Therapy Team consisting of registered and non registered roles. To be responsible for the planning, development, maintenance and evaluation of the Children’s Therapy Service, contributing to the strategic planning and informing the Operational lead for Children’s Therapies of any developments and needs.
To take provide expert clinical specialist management in children’s therapy, including the advanced management of children with diverse presentations and a wide variety of complex communication needs.
To be responsible for managing their own caseload and the supervision, education and assessment of students, assistants and junior therapists in their area. They will provide specialised advice to other professionals in this specific clinical area.
To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
This advert closes on Thursday 30 May 2024