Main area Children's Speech & Language Therapy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (15 hours clinical and 22.5 hours leadership: Developmental Language Disorder Lead / Team Lead) Job ref 083-7036316-WW
Employer Sirona care & health CIC Employer type NHS Site BNSSG Town Bristol Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 22/03/2025 23:59
Speech & Language Therapy Team Lead
Band 7
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Job overview
The Children’s Therapy Services identify, assess, support and manage the health needs of children and young people aged 0-18 years, working closely with children and their families in health settings and family homes; and with education colleagues in early years and school settings.
The Children’s Therapy services cover Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. Services are offered in various parts of these localities to facilitate easy access for families.
This is an exciting role to work in a friendly and supportive team, combining the opportunity to provide clinical & leadership expertise to a team of enthusiastic & dedicated SLT's, alongside supporting children with speech, language & communication needs.
You will be leading the North Somerset School Age Team & be the Developmental Language Disorder Lead across BNSSG. You will work closely with locality School & Early Years Team Leads & Clinical Leads across BNSSG. Your role will be to develop the Service & provide supervision, teaching, advice, and consultation across the BNSSG area, enhancing the quality of care provided to children & families.
In this role, you will provide expert clinical support to children with speech, language & communication difficulties at Primary and Secondary age. You will be responsible for managing a highly specialist caseload, offering your expertise in assessing, supporting, & managing children with speech, language and communication needs.
Main duties of the job
* To practise as a highly specialist clinical practitioner, being a source of expertise, providing support, supervision, teaching, advice and consultation across BNSSG. To offer highly specialist clinical expertise within the specified clinical area of developmental language disorder, and to carry own highly specialist case load within a specified clinical area.
* You will collaborate with Professional Leads to manage the Speech & Language Therapy Service.
* You will have line management responsibilities of some staff and be responsible for holding team meetings.
* You will support the overview of locality performance on RTTs and EHCP targets.
* You will be working with Operational Leads & data teams on EMIS optimisation.
* To provide clinical and day to day leadership for a therapy discipline within a designated locality and be a first point of contact for the team for queries and concerns.
* To use discretion in the interpretation of departmental policies. This may include decision making on queries raised by the locality team members around aspects of policy implementation. Post-holder would refer significant queries to relevant Professional Lead.
* To support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with accountability and responsibility for the activity, performance, outcomes and clinical governance of the designated therapy team in the locality.
* Support the Professional Lead/Head of Service with recruitment including interviewing and induction for new recruits.
Working for our organisation
We are Sirona care & health, a Community Interest Company committed to providing local communities with a range of high-quality specialist healthcare services across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. For us, it’s about the personal approach; we take pride in what we do and deliver the high standard of care we would expect for ourselves and our families.
At Sirona, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of colleagues, people and communities. We welcome applications from all who feel they have the skills and attributes to make a real difference.
We offer NHS Agenda for Change Salary, Terms and Conditions and the NHS pension scheme plus much more!
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full list of requirements before applying to this position.
Person specification
Experience & Skills
* Experience of project / service improvement work.
* Experience of line management.
* Ability to interpret professional standards and guidelines and relate them to clinical service delivery.
* Experience of working collaboratively with Local Authority and Education partners, either at a leadership level or at a clinical level.
* Experience of initiating, implementing and managing change and service improvement.
* Previous experience in Clinical Specialist role.
Qualifications
* Degree level qualification recognised by Professional Governing Body (Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists/Chartered Society of Physiotherapists/ Royal College of Occupational Therapists).
* HCPC Registration.
* Evidence of Master Level post qualification accredited training and participation in ongoing regular CPD in area of clinical specialism (e.g. Bobath training, Post-grad accredited Dysphagia training).
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Name Anna Yandell Job title Professional Lead for Speech & Language Therapy Email address anna.yandell@nhs.net Telephone number 07811498144 Additional information
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