Programme Lead - Hartlepool, United Kingdom - North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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Hartlepool, United Kingdom

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Band 8a:
Programme Lead - Early Language Support for Every Child

22.5 hours per week (0.6 whole time equivalent)


F ixed Term:
Until December 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated practitioner to lead a pilot programme within Hartlepool.


Hartlepool has been selected to take part in a pilot initiative known as 'Early Language Support for Every Child' (ELSEC).

The ELSEC programme aims to improve early identification and support for children with speech, language and communication needs.

To deliver the programme, we are developing a new team of professionals.

Alongside this role, the team will include a Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist, a Specialist Teacher and Speech and Language Support Workers.

The team will also work in partnership with others, for example Family Hubs, Health Visitors and Early Years Settings. Speech and Language UK are also engaged with the project and will work in partnership with the team.

Working alongside the other professionals in the team, you will be responsible for:
Providing systematic and accountable operational leadership and management for the ELSEC Programme within Hartlepool.


Making a significant contribution to the ELSEC strategy within Hartlepool including approaches to education and training for the wider children's workforce, providing support to other Leads as required.


Developing and maintaining links with the Local Authority, Speech and Language UK and relevant ELSEC partners to ensure a coordinated approach to the delivery of the programme aims and objectives.

Providing evidence-based advice about the programme.


At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust our main priority is, and always will be, to provide safe and high quality care to our patients every day; the kind of care we would want for ourselves and our loved ones.

We want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.


We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.

Staff recognition is very important to us; as well as performance reviews and appraisals, we recognise staff through Star and Team of the month, colleague recognition - a note of thanks, Managers Awards, Shining Stars and Service Awards.

We recruit for values and "Together we are North Tees & Hartlepool


To provide highly specialist clinical and professional advice to support children and young people with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) through delivering universal and targeted support offers in conjunction with colleagues in the wider children's workforce and within the ELSEC Programme.


To provide specialist clinical advice and support to colleagues in relation to workforce development across the ELSEC Programme as required.


To work collaboratively with the Professional for Children's Therapies and partners within the ELSEC programme to ensure evidence-based, equitable provision across the children's therapies services in line with the relevant service specification(s) including policy formation, workforce planning, staff deployment, allocation of resources and team developments.


To advise the Professional Lead for Children's Therapy services on service delivery issues within the ELSEC Programme, including pressures and shortfalls.


To provide support and advice to the ELSEC team on the day to day management of the service including work allocation and planning to ensure equity across services.


To undertake line management responsibilities including appraisal, reviewing work performance, facilitating staff development and managing first line disciplinary and grievance issues.


To represent the Children's Therapy services on relevant children and young people's service groups relating to development and delivery of the ELSEC programme as appropriate.


To establish and maintain links with parent-led groups as required within the scope of the ELSEC programme, ensuring that parental views are taken into consideration in all areas of service provision and development.

To establish and maintain links with other stakeholder groups within the ELSEC programme e.g. Head Teacher and SENCo forums, other ELSEC pathfinders.

To lead on recruitment of Speech and Language Therapy staff for the ELSEC Programme.


To establish and operationalise plans to meet the education needs of the workforce, including the team of support workers within ELSEC.


To maintain an overview of the electronic client management system for the programme including monitoring of ELSEC activity, and performance data, actively managing any issues as they arise.

To contribute to the data collection and participate in independent evaluation of the ELSEC programme.

To represent the children and young people's therapy servic
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