Specialist SLT | Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 October 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 November 2024 |
| Location: | Shiremoor, NE27 0HJ |
| Company: | Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6666235/319-6666235IO |
Summary
We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Complex and Additional Needs Team.
We are looking to recruit an innovative, caring and dynamic SLT who would like to further develop their existing skills in speech, language, communication and eating/drinking difficulties, in particular for children with complex needs.
The successful candidate should have knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of communication difficulties and should also have knowledge and skills in supporting families and educational settings to embed communication strategies into their daily practice.
The successful candidate will be responsible for caseload planning and management, providing peer support and supervision to junior members of the team, planning and supporting teaching assistants and Assistant Speech and Language Therapists to provide SLT interventions, evaluating the outcomes and impact of their clinical work and contributing to quality improvement projects and clinical audits.
You will be committed to partnership working with other health professionals and education teams and have excellent communication and prioritisation skills. Knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of eating/drinking and swallowing is desirable but not essential to the role.
The post will involve working with pre-school aged children with complex needs both in their home and in early years mainstream settings and with primary aged children in specialist setting. The post will involve providing assessment and support for these children and planning/delivering interventions to develop the knowledge, skills and confidence of families/carers and setting staff to implement and embed communication and/or eating and drinking strategies.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
The Complex and Additional Needs Speech and Language Therapy team is a small team who are passionate about supporting people with SEND and their families. We have well established and strong connections with our Health and Local Authority colleagues allowing us to work in partnership at all levels which was highlighted in recent SEND inspection reports.
We can offer you a highly rewarding post which includes:
• Clinical supervision
• Regular team meetings, peer support and supervision, clinical focus groups and the opportunity to attend Regional Clinical Excellence Networks.
• Annual Appraisal
• In-Service Training
• Opportunities to contribute to Trust and Local Authority quality improvement work and innovations.
• Opportunity to be actively involved in the design and implementation of the team annual planning
• Opportunity to work in partnership with other Health colleagues and Local Authority Services such as Portage to ensure the highest quality of care.
• Close links with Newcastle University and other regional services including RCAS (Regional Communication Aid Service), The Great North Children’s Hospital.
• Close working with Clinical Leads, Consultant and Highly Specialist SLTs in Dysphagia, Autism, AAC and Stammering in relation to evidence based practice, innovation, audit and caseload management.
This advert closes on Wednesday 16 Oct 2024
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