Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Oldham, United Kingdom - Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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

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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 Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and innovative Speech and Language Therapy Team in Oldham.

This is a permanent full time role (37.5 hours Monday-Friday).


Within this role you will:
- have opportunities to work with a multilingual population alongside interpreters and bilingual co-workers.

  • Have opportunity for professional development as well as informal and formal training opportunities. You will receive regular opportunities for supervision, peer support and be supported to develop your clinical specialism.
Staff wellbeing is important to us and we have a certified well-being champion within our Team.


We work in partnership with families, schools and other professionals to provide functional targets and high-quality care for children and families.

We offer flexible working patterns with opportunities to work full time/part time and remote/face to face/hybrid. Regrettably, we cannot offer a term time only contract for this role.


Main duties of the job:


  • Enthusiastically provide a speech and language service to children across the Oldham area
  • Assess, diagnose, develop, and implement speech and language therapy packages of care.
  • Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to ensure a coordinated care plan, based on best practice/evidence base.
  • Organise and manage a speech and language caseload with support from their line manager, alongside opportunities to shadow colleagues and attend specific pathway meetings.
  • Work with children and young people with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs including developmental language disorders and children with language disorders associated with conditions such as neurodevelopmental disorder ( e.g. ASC ).
  • Demonstrate clinical effectiveness through the use of evidencebased practice and outcome measures.
  • Provide clinical advice to others, including parents/carers, school staff and other professionals regarding the management and care of children with communication difficulties.
  • Work alongside education, local authority and early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
  • Build skills in the wider workforce which will have positive intervention outcomes.

Working for our organisation:

Oldham Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. The place where the world's first IVF baby was delivered, Oldham is a town of pioneering firsts.

Today, Oldham is responsible for delivering a range of acute and community health services across the local area and at The Royal Oldham Hospital.

As a designated major trauma unit for Greater Manchester and one of only three vascular centres in Greater Manchester, Oldham is a specialist hospital for acute surgery and provides state-of-the-art onsite pathology services to the North West.


Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

If you would like to contact a member of the team to talk about these posts:


Person specification:


clinical:


Essential criteria:


  • Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
  • Qualified and registered speech and language therapist
  • Implementation of evidencebased interventions
  • Experience of assessment for a wide range of children's speech, language and communication needs


  • Health Professions Council

  • Licence to Practice
  • Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
  • Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses

Desirable criteria:


  • Experience of writing and delivering training packages
  • Experience of supporting/leading other members of staff and students
  • Relevant experience of managing caseload independently
  • Demonstrates good skills in negotiation and managing conflict
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapist
  • Relevant Band 6 experience

communication:


Essential criteria:


  • Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience of development and/or delivery of training packages
  • Experience of working closely with families and education settings
  • Production and sharing of personalised care plans
  • Working with range of services in an MDT context
  • Experience of working within a team
**Desirable criteria*
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