Job summary
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service has an exciting vacancy for a specialist speech & language therapist. The post is full time and is required to provide leadership to a small locality team of therapists and assistants as well as specialist speech and language support to any children and young people referred to the Speech & Language Therapy Service in homes, daycare and mainstream settings.
The post additionally has some responsibility for providing a specialist service to children & young people aged 0-25 years with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND) and/or eating, drinking & swallowing needs; contributing to the wider speech and language therapy SEND team.
The post will include travelling across the areas of Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland and will include home visits, mainstream and specialist educational settings as well as nurseries and daycare settings.
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Main duties of the job
You will provide operational management & leadership to a small locality team of speech and language therapists, assistants and admin support, including the coordination of appointment rotas and day-to-day supervision of the team. This will also include regular liaison with colleagues and partners in the local authorities, including schools and daycare settings.
You will provide specialised speech and language therapy interventions concerning the care and treatment of clients on the specialist caseload and the wider generalist locality caseload - communication and Eating, Drinking & Swallowing (EDS)
You will contribute to service developments and review of work practices, under-pinned by evidence based practices
You will be responsible for electronic record keeping in a sufficient and timely manner, recording personally generated clinical observations and assessment results; also producing letters and reports following assessment, including provision of statutory reports for safeguarding and Education, Health & Care Plans
You will develop your own skills and knowledge and contribute to the development of others
You will contribute to all aspects of governance in the children & young people's speech and language therapy service
About us
The Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Department comprises 26 qualified therapists and 13 assistants, as well as full administrative support from 5 clerical staff. Clinical specialisms covered within the team include Early Years and School Aged SEND, autism, Eating, Drinking & Swallowing, Communication Aids, Speech & Language Disorder, Hearing Loss, Stammering. There is also a strong focus on multi-lingualism and its impact on communication development.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council
- A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas
- Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Desirable
- Relevant accredited courses
- Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
- Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing
- Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of SEND
- Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff
- Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance
- High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally
- Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
Desirable
- Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C
- Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
- Experience working with children in the specialist area of SEND
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams
- Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Some experience of dysphagia/EDS
- Experience of delivering lectures/presentations
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of senior team leads
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations
- Proven ability to work successfully in a team
- Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive'
- Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council
- A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas
- Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Desirable
- Relevant accredited courses
- Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
- Attendance at the leadership and development and improvement programme (4.5 days)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing
- Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of SEND
- Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff
- Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance
- High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally
- Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
Desirable
- Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C
- Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
- Experience working with children in the specialist area of SEND
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams
- Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Some experience of dysphagia/EDS
- Experience of delivering lectures/presentations
Personal attributes
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of senior team leads
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations
- Proven ability to work successfully in a team
- Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive'
- Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Children & Young People’s Speech & Language Therapy
North Ormesby Health Village 2 Trinity Mews
North Ormesby Middlesbrough
TS3 6AL
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
