Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop specialist Band 6 skills within a small and supportive team. We would consider a Band 5-6 Development post if all of the essential criteria are not met. This post has been newly commissioned to join our existing small team in supporting and developing our Mainstream Schools service to Children and Young People with EHCP's. We are looking for a self- motivated, friendly and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our established Children's Therapy Team in North East Lincolnshire.
We are a small but dynamic multi professional team comprised of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics and Speech and Language Therapy. The team is based in the community within Diana Princess of Wales Hospital, Grimsby, but working closely with the children's team in Scunthorpe.
Your job will be to provide specialised Speech and Language assessment and management of children within community paediatrics arena including children with a diverse range of communication difficulties. As part of this role you will be expected to participate in the development of this service including development of pathways, school training packages and resources in order to support the Graduated approach to supporting schools. You will also provide line management registered and non registered staff. You will work closely with the established team, Team leads and colleagues across Health and Education.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for providing a specialist assessment, management and interventions for children and young people with a range of communication difficulties including more complex needs across a range of mainstream school settings. This will include supporting children and young people with SLCN with a Functional impact, DLD, and Language Disorder with associated biomedical conditions and Speech sound disorders.
- To work within Mainstream School settings with CYP who have EHCP's.
- To be responsible for providing a high quality specialist service to children and young people with more complex communication impairments. To provide specialist advice and support the assessment and early identification/prevention of SLCN
- To provide training as appropriate for colleagues, carer's, other professionals and Speech and Language Therapists. To develop training packages/resources for schools as required and support the roll out as required.
- Attendance and participation in MDT meetings including Annual Reviews and contribute to these with specialist reports.
- To assist the Operational Lead and Team leads in planning and developing the service. To provide second opinions where appropriate to junior colleagues. To contribute to information and data collection for quarterly reporting for commissioners and to monitor information relevant to own area of the service.
About us
We're a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt 'best practice' so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
Should we receive a high volume of applications for this vacancy, the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert.
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
"We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- oHCPC Registration
- oDegree/ MSC in Speech and Language Therapy
Desirable
- oPost graduate study in appropriate clinical areas e.g. MSc modules in Paediatrics
- oMembership of Paediatric Specialist Group
- oRelevant accredited courses related to clinical areas in paediatric Speech and Language Therapy
- oWide range of CPD activities, esp. related to specialist area
- oPost graduate cleft palate/DLD or SSD training
Occupational Experience
Essential
- oPost graduate experience in Speech and Language Therapy across a range of Paediatric clinical areas relevant to the post
- oExperience of working with at least one more complex clinical pathway
- oExperience of working with other professionals e.g. schools, pre-school settings
Desirable
- oClinical experience as Autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical paediatric clinical pathways relevant to the post
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- oHCPC Registration
- oDegree/ MSC in Speech and Language Therapy
Desirable
- oPost graduate study in appropriate clinical areas e.g. MSc modules in Paediatrics
- oMembership of Paediatric Specialist Group
- oRelevant accredited courses related to clinical areas in paediatric Speech and Language Therapy
- oWide range of CPD activities, esp. related to specialist area
- oPost graduate cleft palate/DLD or SSD training
Occupational Experience
Essential
- oPost graduate experience in Speech and Language Therapy across a range of Paediatric clinical areas relevant to the post
- oExperience of working with at least one more complex clinical pathway
- oExperience of working with other professionals e.g. schools, pre-school settings
Desirable
- oClinical experience as Autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical paediatric clinical pathways relevant to the post
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
