Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community based services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:
1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.
Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.
For more information visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Job overview
This post will provide clinical leadership to SLT staff in the Preston team, as well as the development of clinical pathways across Lancashire. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical expertise in Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). This will involve regular updates of the DLD clinical pathway in line with the current evidence base, updating and providing DLD specific training for SLTs, parents and wider professionals, and providing second opinions for SLTs working with children with DLD across the Trust. You will manage a complex caseload and be capable of working autonomously to provide direct clinical care. You will provide effective clinical and professional supervision, identify training needs of individuals, and lead on the delivery of suitable training, demonstrating high level, expert speech and language therapy skills and knowledge. We are looking for a motivated person who has an interest in service transformation to improve speech, language and communication skills for children and young people. If the successful candidate already works as a Clinical Lead within Children's Therapy Services, we will consider whether it would be appropriate for the specialism of this clinical pathway role to change, if this also meets the needs of the service.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide expert clinical advice to the Management and Leadership Team within the Service Line.
2. To provide leadership to relevant care pathways including the review and redesign of these pathways, the development and monitoring of outcome measures in relation to relevant care pathways and the continual improvement of care pathways and packages of care.
3. To work with other Clinical Leads where appropriate to establish clinical networks across LCFT for relevant clinical specialities and/or care pathways.
4. To identify training and development needs associated with specialist area of clinical practice and support other practitioners' development through delivering in house training, supervision and mentoring.
5. To lead the development and review of clinical protocols as relevant to specialist area.
6. To lead clinical service transformation projects as relevant to specialist area.
7. To be responsible for a highly specialist portfolio in an agreed area of expertise, which will include provision of expert advice to therapists/nurses across teams to support them in taking up the duty of care; the coordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for parents/carers and colleagues working in health and education.
Working for our organisation
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area. Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, believing that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Professional Degree or equivalent in speech and language therapy
* Current Professional Registration with HCPC
* Evidence of formal training / self study / specialist experience to Masters level equivalent
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Detailed understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
* Extensive knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs.
* Extensive knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes and their applications for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
Experience
Essential criteria
* Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area
* Extensive experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community settings.
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Please be aware, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) when submitting an application is monitored and if you have used AI to generate an application, you are required to declare this on your application form. Failure to do so may result in your application being withdrawn.
We want to highlight the importance of integrity and authenticity in your application form and ask you to use AI tools responsibly to ensure your application form is a true reflection of your skills, knowledge and experiences.
Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.
LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
* JDPS (PDF, 384.4KB)
* NHS Staff Benefits - 2023 (PDF, 556.9KB)
* We Do More at LSCFT (PDF, 654.2KB)
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