Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Clinical Lead

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced paediatric Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT) to be our countywide clinical lead for speech, as well as hold a mixed community caseload in one of our locality teams. We are flexible on where the post will be based within the county.

The clinical lead will be proactive in reviewing and maintaining our service speech pathway, and will ensure the wider SaLT service are confidently applying it to their own caseloads. The post holder will form part of our children's SaLT leadership team and work alongside other clinical leads, team leads and our operational lead.

The post holder will offer clinical supervision and/or line management across the service, as well as face to face second opinions as needed.

The post holder will work with the area team lead to establish their community caseload, which will include complex situations, and provide assessment and/or intervention to their caseload in line with our service offer. The community caseload can also include Dysphagia if the post holder has RCSLT competence and this is an area of interest for them.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who

- has an established/or developing clinical specialism in speech sound disorders and difficulties

- has experience supervising and/or line managing SaLTs

- is organised and able to prioritise tasks

- is a good listener and seeks feedback from the therapists/service users

- proactively makes seeks solutions to challenges

We can offer the post holder

- regular supervision and line management

- flexible working arrangements

- CPD opportunities through our central developmental fund

- a strong service ethos on promoting staff wellbeing

- opportunities to make proactive changes to the service through quality improvement workstreams

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.