Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Main area: Speech and Language Therapy
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-CEN2227-MC
Site: Childrens Speech Therapy, Greater Preston Town, Preston
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/03/2025 23:59
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.
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 be able to 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.
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 to establish clinical networks across LCFT for relevant clinical specialties and/or care pathways.
4. To identify training and development needs associated with the 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 the specialist area.
6. To lead clinical service transformation projects as relevant to the specialist area.
7. To be responsible for a highly specialist portfolio in an agreed area of expertise, including 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.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* 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
* 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.
Experience
* Evidence of recent and relevant postgraduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice that demonstrates in-depth knowledge of the 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.
Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.
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