Job summary
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.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust's Children & Young People's Speech & Language Therapy Service is an innovative, dynamic and proactive team, committed to developing an effective speech, language & communication service for the children, young people and their families & carers across Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland. The service is jointly-commissioned by the NHS (Integrated Care Board) and two local authorities and enjoys close collaborative working relationships with those agencies.
The South Tees area serves a richly diverse population with a blend of urban, inner city areas and remote rurality.
The team has an exciting vacancy for a specialist speech & language therapist. The post is full time and is required to provide specialist speech and language support to any children and young people referred to the Speech & Language Therapy Service in homes, daycare and mainstream settings. This is a Band 6 post but we are open to applicants who are currently Band 5 and would be interested in a structured and supported progression into the Band 6 role.
Main duties of the job
The post has particular responsibility for providing a specialist service to children & young people aged 0-25 years with Special Educational Needs & disabilities (SEND) and/or eating, drinking & swallowing needs; providing a specialist lead and training for colleagues working with this client group and specialist advice to other agencies, professionals, parents & carers.
- to develop specialised programmes of care and provide specialised advice concerning the care & treatment of clients on the specialist caseload and the wider generalist caseload
- To assess, plan, deliver & evaluate programmes to address the health and wellbeing needs of children & young people where those needs are complex and change across the caseload
- To develop knowledge and practice in a specialist area of work
- To develop own skills and knowledge, and to contribute to the development of others
- To be responsible for electronic record-keeping into the electronic patient record in a sufficient and timely manner, recording personally generated clinical observations and assessment results
- The post will include travelling across the areas of Middlesbrough and Redcar & Cleveland and will include home visits, mainstream and specialist educational settings as well as nurseries and daycare settings.
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. 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 following training sessions
Your Leadership Impact
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
Lean Practitioner
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
- Explore leadership within the NHS
- Promote Trust values and behaviours
- Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
- Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council
- A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas (eg experience of and/or training in Makaton, Hanen etc)
- Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Desirable
- Relevant accredited courses
- Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing
- Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of learning disabilities
- Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff
- Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance
- High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally
- Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
Desirable
- Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C
- Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
- Experience working with children in the specialist area of learning disabilities & dysphagia
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams
- Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Experience of delivering lectures/presentations
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of team leads
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations
- Proven ability to work successfully in a team
- Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive'
- Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Degree/diploma and licence to practise as a speech & language therapist as approved by the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Current registration as a qualified speech & language therapist with the Health Care Professions Council
- A portfolio of CPD across general & specific speech & language therapy areas (eg experience of and/or training in Makaton, Hanen etc)
- Commitment to completing Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Desirable
- Relevant accredited courses
- Post Basic Dysphagia Certificate (Paediatrics)
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
- Knowledge & understanding of a wide range of procedures and practices related to the identification, definition, diagnosis & remediation of disorders of human communication and eating, drinking & swallowing
- Knowledge, skills & understanding of children & young people in the specialist area of learning disabilities
- Evidence of leadership skills including: personal time management & organisation; successful & effective caseload management; successful & effective supervision/leading other clinical staff
- Highly developed communication skills: able to motivate, negotiate, persuade, empathise, communicate sensitively, sympathetically and with reassurance
- High level of interpersonal skills in order to communicate effectively with a wide range of people including people with communication problems, carers & families, other professionals, therapy colleagues locally & nationally
- Highly developed physical skills with high degree of speed, precision & accuracy including precise auditory, perceptual & observational skills
- Able to make judgements involving highly complex information
Desirable
- Knowledge & skills in paediatric dysphagia working at RCSLT Training & Competency Framework Level C
- Skills required to undertake formal lectures & presentations
- Knowledge of SEND Code of Practice/Framework
Experience
Essential
- Relevant and considerable post-preceptorship experience working with a range of children and young people with communication difficulties
- Experience working with children in the specialist area of learning disabilities & dysphagia
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working with Education and Health teams
- Providing appropriate advice for EHCPs
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Experience of delivering lectures/presentations
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Ability to work autonomously under the guidance of team leads
- Ability to be flexible and adaptable in response to changing situations
- Proven ability to work successfully in a team
- Able to demonstrate Trust values: 'respectful', 'caring', 'supportive'
- Able to travel independently around the Middlesbrough/Redcar & Cleveland area
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
