Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester,, M30 0BL |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9350-25-0759 |
Summary
1. Line Management responsibility for team. 2. Full management responsibility for managing and prioritising caseload including delegation to other speech and language therapists in the team. 3. Supervise other speech and language therapists and support workers in the team. 4. Contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of speech and language therapy. 5. To provide clinical leadership and training to the wider staff team with regards to speech, language and communication. 6. To provide strategic leadership to within the Service in the development of the things such as the clinical model. 7. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate. 8. To provide in depth specialist speech and language therapy assessments for the more complex service users referred to the team. 9. To formulate and implement support plans as part of the MDT. 10. Evaluate the impact of a support plan / intervention and use outcome measures to inform future practice. 11. Develop effective outcome measures both for SLT and the wider team to build on the existing evidence base. 12. To provide clinical and strategic leadership across the health and social care network for the geographical area. 13. Represent service both nationally and locally as appropriate. 14. Research: To utilise theory evidence-based literature and research to support practice and to contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating research and audit. 15. Advising team manager about capacity / gaps in service delivery / operational issues. 16. Being involved in recruitment of other speech and language therapists or other staff within the teams. 17. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior members of staff. 18. To act as supervisor, assessor and mentor for students, Speech and Language Therapists and junior staff. 19. To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with provision of learning disability services in the community. 20. To be involved in the development of training / information resources for partner agencies 21. To ensure Safeguarding requirements are upheld. 22. To provide statistical information as required by the Trust. 23. To undertake duties as may be delegated by the Team Manager or the Clinical Lead. 24. To utilise theory, evidenced based literature and research to support practice. 25. To contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audits whenever possible. 26. Promote health and reduce inequalities for all patients accessing the speech and language therapy service, so that they may be able to maximise their potential in terms of health education and social well-being. 27. To lead on training and development programmes as appropriate to the knowledge and skills of the individual, delivering to other professionals and service users. 28. Participate in the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (MCFT) PACE review process ensuring business priority objectives are met and a personal development plan is maintained and evaluated. Cascade the PACE process to departmental staff as appropriate. 29. Be responsible for own continuing professional development and maintaining own professional registration and meet HPC registration requirements, maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrating evidence of reflective practice. 30. Use highly developed skills to convey complex and sensitive clinical information, using a high level of persuasive and motivational skill to enable others to follow swallowing/therapy plans. Communicate clinical formulations and interventions to service users and carers in an understandable manner based on a person-centred approach, which inspires hope to the service user and carer.