Job summary
We are excited to offer this full time position of Community Advanced Speech and Language Therapist.
We are looking for an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist with a passion for Community Service provision to lead, shape and Inform the onward journey of the service. The service covers across the coast, Ryedale and the picturesque moors of Whitby. You will be responsible for assessment, intervention, and consultation of the community caseload, using advanced skills and clinical judgement. You will Lead and contribute to service development and evidence based practice, whilst holding a caseload of complex patients along side. If this appeals to you we are looking forward to hearing from you.
We can also offer part-time hours if more suitable.
Main duties of the job
Core Functions:
- To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
- Leads in specialist area; contributes to development of specialist service and related policies, legislation to support evidence-based practice.
- Supervises/manages staff/students working in own specialist area
- Assess and treats own caseload of patients, individually and/or in groups, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a variety of settings
- To continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, within the multi-disciplinary Hub team and across the geographical area
- To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
- To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced basedclinical practice; including involvement in research and audit. Undertake research specialist treatment and provide advanced practice.
About us
We are an award winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website
We are a forward thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you'll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promotes equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors you'll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see attached Job Description and person specifications. Also visit the Humber Trust website for a wider overview of the services we provide
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see attached Job Description and person specifications. Also visit the Humber Trust website for a wider overview of the services we provide
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area
- Educated to Masters Level or Masters level/ Post Graduate modules supplemented by specialist accredited training and experience in specialist field(s)
- Be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice: e.g. dysphagia assessment and management
- Current HCPC professional registration
Desirable
- Advanced/expert clinical qualification
- Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
- Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
Desirable
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
- A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
Skills and Competence
Essential
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
- Excellent and effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising/managing staff
- Must hold a drivers licence and be able to effectively visit in the community
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
Person Specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential
- Full understanding/application of relevant clinical practice/standards/audit within identified service area
- Educated to Masters Level or Masters level/ Post Graduate modules supplemented by specialist accredited training and experience in specialist field(s)
- Be able to demonstrate equivalent knowledge or experiential learning/experience in service development, managing change, leading and managing staff, plus specialist training and short courses to Diploma level relevant to area of practice: e.g. dysphagia assessment and management
- Current HCPC professional registration
Desirable
- Advanced/expert clinical qualification
- Specialist/advanced understanding/application of relevant managerial and leadership aspects of the service area
- Member of specialist interest group/network, locally or nationally
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable experience of working in the specific field where the post is held
- Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Evidence of promoting/supporting active user/carer involvement/participation
Desirable
- Experience of developing others through education, mentorship, coaching, teaching, assessing, presentations, publishing
- A breadth of professional practice including specialising in the field where the post is held
Skills and Competence
Essential
- Ability to lead/motivate staff to embrace change
- Working knowledge of Trust policies and procedures in order to effectively lead and manage others
- Excellent and effective inter-personal skills and experience in supervising/managing staff
- Must hold a drivers licence and be able to effectively visit in the community
Desirable
- Able to demonstrate effective communication skills at all levels i.e. strategically and locally
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).
