Education Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead
Band 8a Education Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead (Complex needs and Dysphagia)
Areas: Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham
Permanent Part Time
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Education Speech and Language Therapy Locality Lead to join our SLT Clinical Leadership Team. With extensive clinical and operational experience, and excellent staff management skills, you will co-lead our special schools speech and language therapy and school-aged dysphagia teams. You will have at least five years of clinical experience in special schools including dysphagia, including a minimum of two years' experience in managing SLT teams in special schools.
You will have demonstrable clinical supervisory and line management skills and have experience of the day-to-day running of SLT teams working in special schools and dysphagia. The role will include working in partnership with the Local Authorities and our Parent Carer Networks as well as managing a clinical caseload.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Two years of experience providing clinical supervision and line management to SLTs in special schools.
2. Knowledge and experience of implementing quality improvement strategies and initiatives.
3. Delivery of different SLT models of care within special school settings.
4. Managing change within an SLT service.
5. Leadership skills in service development projects.
6. Importance of delivering SLT services to KPIs and to contract specification.
7. Effective partnership working.
8. Overall team and individual performance management.
9. Extensive knowledge and experience of clinical assessment, intervention approaches, and use of outcome measures in special schools speech and language development.
10. Providing assessment and intervention for children and young people with complex SLT needs including dysphagia.
What We Can Offer You
1. An opportunity to continue development of highly specialist skills in a clinical area.
2. Opportunities to develop and hone your quality improvement skills and practice.
3. Work alongside an innovative, experienced, and knowledgeable team of fellow Team Leads.
4. Regular 1:1 supervision and management support.
5. Excellent agile working options.
6. Great transport connections to central and greater London.
About Us
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
Benefits
* A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role.
* Car lease scheme *T&C's apply.
* Flexible working options.
* Training, support, and development in your career.
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Job Responsibilities
Please refer to Job description and Person Specification for outline of skills, knowledge, and experience required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* First degree and License to Practice from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
* Current registered membership of HCPC and requirement for professional indemnity insurance if not a member of RCSLT.
* Educated to modules at Master's level, or equivalent in SLT discipline or equivalent competency at post-graduate diploma/training and experience.
Experience
* Extensive experience working with children with a wide range of speech, language, and communication difficulties in special school settings.
* Postgraduate paediatric dysphagia experience (5 years) including non-oral feeding.
* Experience in partnership working, including for transformation.
* Experience working in partnership with LA colleagues to embed new ways of working and delivery of performance KPIs.
* Collaborative work with parents and other professionals, especially education staff.
* Extensive experience delivering training & coaching for teaching staff working in special school settings.
* Experience of transformation and in delivering significant service development projects.
* Has undertaken leadership training and has experience of leading SLT teams.
* Experience of managing clinical staff in teams.
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.
£61,927 to £68,676 a year per annum, inclusive of HCAS.
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