Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Main area: Speech and Language Therapy
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref: 351-BAY746-EB
Site: Dane Garth/Dova Town, Barrow-in-Furness
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 16/01/2025 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.
In the Bay Network, an exciting career opportunity has arisen within the Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce for a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist (S<), to deliver quality evidence-based practice into the mental health inpatient wards within the Bay.
We are seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking individual, who has the desire to build upon their transferable clinical and leadership skills. While working to a high standard of evidence-based professional patient-centred care, you will be supported to progress and to achieve your potential as both a leader and a clinician amongst our growing AHP community.
Across the Bay Network, there are four acute mental health inpatient wards spanning across both adults and older adults: The Orchard, Lancaster, Kentmere, Kendal, Dova, Dane Garth in Barrow-in-Furness and Ramsey, Dane Garth based on Furness General Hospital site in Barrow-in-Furness.
The positive developments within the AHPs workforce are driving forwards a culture of learning and continuing professional development opportunities. This includes utilizing innovative technology to facilitate our more geographically isolated patients within the Bay Network. The base of the location can be discussed further with interested candidates, with potential for a hybrid model of clinical care provision.
Main duties of the job
We are developing our AHP workforce across the Bay, and with the promotion of an inclusive and diverse culture, we are committed to ensuring that everyone involved in the Trust, inclusive of staff, service users and carers are treated equitably and with dignity and respect.
If this position is of interest and you are wanting to thrive in this exciting career opportunity and join our Lancashire & South Cumbria AHP community, where you and your work matters, we encourage you to have a look at the Job Description and Personal Specification, get in touch to discuss this role further, and apply for a fantastic new role.
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.
For more information, please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
* Current professional registration with HCPC as Speech and Language Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
* Masters module/post grad qualification in relevant field of clinical expertise (or working towards) / post-grad qualification/equivalent knowledge & experience to masters level
* Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise relevant to this post
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge relevant to the post
* Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance
* In-depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents
Experience
* Treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical specialty
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
* Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
* Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students
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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
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: Samantha Bennett
Job title: Associate Director of Allied Health Professionals
Email address: Sam.Bennett@lscft.nhs.uk
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