Operational Lead Speech and Language Therapist
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Job summary
ADULT SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE
OPERATIONAL LEAD SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE
Band: 8a
Permanent contract
Minimum 30 hours/week - up to 37.5 hrs / week
Following review of the service structure we have an exciting career progression opportunity for an Operational Lead post to provide professional leadership and operational management support within the service, and particularly across the acute and specialist medical team structure.
The postholder will be responsible for the delivery of the operational performance of the Adult Speech and Language Service working alongside the service clinical leads, Head of Service, Acute Professions Lead, and other service leads as well as liaising with a range of staff across the Trust to ensure that high quality patient care is achieved and sustained.
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for an independent clinical caseload (approximately 50 to 60% direct clinical care) using advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment and advice within area of designated expertise.
The Operational Lead will be a member of the senior leadership team both within the service and across the AHP LeadershipTeam working with the Head of Service on operational and service development issues with specific responsibility for own area of responsibility.
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate significant experience of developing services within a relevant specialist area of clinical expertise and with managing and supporting staff and students and contributing to leadership decision making on a frequent basis.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust Values and Behaviours
- Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills
- Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role
After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.
Details
Date posted
13 February 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
328-JCSM-5911814-LJ
Job locations
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer details
Employer name
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The James Cook University Hospital
Marton Road
Middlesbrough
TS4 3BW
Employer's website
https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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