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

Northern Care Alliance NHS Group

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Salford, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 SLT to work within our Schools & Clinic Team in Salford.

If you are looking for your first SLT position, this is a fantastic opportunity to work alongside an experienced group of Speech and Language Therapists to deliver a variety of interventions to children, school staff and parents/carers.

You will receive CPD, supervision, support and mentoring from a range of experienced SLTs across the service and there will also be opportunities to contribute to the development and delivery of training packages.

You will be part of a large, friendly, supportive team who are passionate about ensuring that all children and families receive appropriate and timely therapeutic and preventative interventions that aim to safeguard and promote the welfare of children.

Due to the nature of the post you will need to be able to travel to different sites as required by the service.

Interviews are planned for 25th April 2023.

Main duties of the job:

Deliver input to children/young people, families and schools using the Thrive and Balanced System approach.
To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to deliver speech and language therapy interventions to children with special educational needs.
To monitor and evaluate programmes of care.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
To produce, with support, reports regarding patient's needs and summarising proposed care plans including for statutory purposes, e.g. EHCP reports and Annual review reports
To support colleagues in the delivery of training to teaching staff and parents/carers.

Working for our organisation:

Salford Care Organisation is part of the Northern Care Alliance, one of the largest NHS organisations in the country. A place with an outstanding reputation.

Salford is the place which is taking bold, pioneering steps towards delivering a world class, fully integrated care system for adults.

Twice rated Outstanding by the CQC, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust is responsible for delivering a range of community and primary care services and specialist services to Greater Manchester and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

Person specification:

Qualifications/registration:

Essential criteria:

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
Member of HCPC

Desirable criteria:

Evidence of completion of courses
Member of RCSLT

Skills, knowledge, experience:

Essential criteria:

Relevant experience at an undergraduate/postgraduate level
Good presentation skills (written)
Knowledge and demonstrated use of up to date assessment tools relevant to client group
Basic IT skills
Ability to write confidential notes and reports, and awareness of record keeping

Desirable criteria:

Knowledge of Augmentative and Alternative forms of Communication e.g. signing, symbols, communication aids.
Experience of working within schools.
Knowledge/experience of using different outcome measures

Skills:

Essential criteria:

Good organisational skills and flexibility
Negotiation and problem solving skills

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