- To develop specialised programmes of care and provide specialised advice concerning the care & treatment of clients on the specialist caseload and the wider generalist caseload
- To assess, plan, deliver & evaluate programmes to address the health and wellbeing needs of children & young people where those needs are complex and change across the caseload
- To develop knowledge and practice in a specialist area of work
- To develop own skills and knowledge, and to contribute to the development of others
- To be responsible for electronic record-keeping into the electronic patient record in a sufficient and timely manner, recording personally generated clinical observations and assessment results
- Producing letters and reports following specialist assessment, including provision of reports for Safeguarding and Education Health & Care Plans
- To contribute to all aspects of clinical governance in the Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service
- Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council
- A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas (eg experience of and/or training in Makaton, Hanen etc)
- Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
- Relevant accredited courses
- Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
- Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing
- Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of learning disabilities
- Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff
- Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance
- High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally
- Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
- Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C
- Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework
- Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
- Experience working with children in the specialist area of learning disabilities & dysphagia
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams
- Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of delivering lectures/presentations
- Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of team leads
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations
- Proven ability to work successfully in a team
- Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive'
- Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area
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Specialist Speech - Middlesbrough, United Kingdom - South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Description
Job summary
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service is an innovative, dynamic and proactive team, committed to developing an effective speech, language & communication service for the children, young people and their families & carers across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. The service is jointly-commissioned by the NHS (Integrated Care Board) and two local authorities and enjoys close collaborative working relationships with those agencies.
The South Tees area serves a richly diverse population with a blend of urban, inner city areas and remote rurality.
The team has an exciting vacancy for a specialist speech & language therapist. The post is full time and is required to provide specialist speech and language support to any children and young people referred to the Speech & Language Therapy Service in homes, daycare and mainstream settings. This is a Band 6 post but we are open to applicants who are currently Band 5 and would be interested in a structured and supported progression into the Band 6 role.
The post has particular responsibility for providing a specialist service to children & young people aged 0-25 years with Special Educational Needs & disabilities (SEND) and/or eating, drinking & swallowing needs; providing a specialist lead and training for colleagues working with this client group and specialist advice to other agencies, professionals, parents & carers.
Main duties of the job
The post will include travelling across the areas of Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland and will include home visits, mainstream and specialist educational settings as well as nurseries and daycare settings.
About us
Leadership and Improvement Training
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to
Explore leadership within the NHS
Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
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