Children's Speech - Heywood, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
Northern Care Alliance NHS Group
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Heywood, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) brings together staff and services from the former Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

The sheer size, scale and potential of our combined service is huge.

Together, we've a wealth of skills and resources to share and tap into and, a wide range of career paths for you to develop and explore.

If you want to join a team of around 20,000 NHS experts in delivering high-quality, local care across Salford, Oldham, Bury and Rochdale and beyond
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come and take your place with us.

Job overview:

We have an exciting opportunity for a B5 Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established and friendly team. You'll be passionate about working with children and families.

You'll be keen to progress in our busy, pro-active environment where we offer opportunities to develop clinical skills and to get involved with service development from an early stage in your career.

We offer frequent management supervision, regular team meetings and robust specialist clinical support. Our active B5 peer support group meet regularly. Evidence-based practice is embedded and CPD is actively encouraged.

We work across schools, clinics and children's centres together with education and nursery staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Specialist Teachers, carers and families.

We work with multi-lingual families together with bi-lingual assistants and interpreters. If you have are positive, enthusiastic and keen to develop your skills then we are keen to hear from you


Please click on the link below to watch a short video about working as a Speech and Language Therapist at Northern Care Alliance.


Main duties of the job:


  • Take your place with us providing specialist triage, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
  • You will assess, treat and review children in facetoface and video appointments.
  • You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
  • You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
  • You will work in clinics, education settings, children's centres and family homes.
  • You will drive continuous improvement with your innovation and passion for developing new ways of working.
  • You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children's workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

Working for our organisation:

Rochdale Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place destined to be different. Rochdale puts co-operation and co-design at the forefront of its health and social care. This is the place with community based integrated care at its heart.

Rochdale Infirmary, and the adult and children's community services across Heywood Middleton and Rochdale, consists of professionals from health, social and voluntary sectors.

A place leading the way in life-enhancing, integrated care.


Detailed job description and main responsibilities:


Person specification:


Education / Qualifications:


Essential criteria:


  • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
  • Health Professions Council-Licence to Practice
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist

Experience:


Essential criteria:


  • Relevant experience at undergraduate level

Knowledge:


Essential criteria:


  • Knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
  • Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group)

Skills and Abilities:


Essential criteria:


  • Excellent interpersonal skills
- including observation, listening and empathy skills

  • Demonstrates good analytical and reflection skills
  • Welldeveloped concentration skills
  • Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
  • Negotiation and Problem solving skills
  • Demonstrates ability to be a good team member
  • Good organisational and prioritisation skills

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Employer certification / accreditation badges:


Applicant requirements:


  • You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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