The Community Paediatric Service are looking to recruit an enthusiastic, dynamic and passionate speech and therapist to work as part of the team, the post holder will provide assessment and advice across the service autism pathway.
They will play a key role in contributing to the assessment processes, through direct clinical assessment both independently and as a member of the MDT, in addition to providing advice and consultation to the clinical team including the medical team.
The post holder will work closely with the consultant paediatricians, additional clinical and admin staff within the team, and colleagues from varied agencies across Oldham.
The Community Paediatric Service is part of the children's integrated health teams and works closely with colleagues from therapies and nursing. The team are continually working towards improvements to provide the best possible outcomes for children and families in Oldham. This provides the post holder with great opportunities to work jointly with colleagues and draw upon their specialist knowledge to provide quality care planning for children and their families.
To lead delivery of the Autism assessment diagnostic pathway for the Community Paediatric Service. Provide specialist assessment, advice and overview of children and young people on the assessment pathway.
To support Speech Therapy colleagues and clinical staff in Community Paediatric Service in the assessment process and delivery of a quality service.
To liaise with a wide range of professional and external agencies to ensure efficient, high quality patient care.
The post holder will be integral in the multi disciplinary team providing direct assessment for children and young people and/or providing a specialist advice and consultation to team members to determine if language assessments are required to support the team to reach a diagnostic conclusion.
To lead on the Autism pathway and service development across Speech Therapy and the Community Paediatric Service.
To provide a highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and treatment/discharge service for children and carers/families.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
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This advert closes on Monday 24 Mar 2025
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