About the role
Salary: £39959.00 to £56515.00
We're advertising an exciting opportunity for a
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist (Band 6 or Band 7 depending on experience)
to join our community team on a
12-month secondment to cover maternity leave
.
Take your place with us providing highly specialist triage, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
You will assist in service development and innovation in consultation with managers and other team members.
You will provide highly specialist support via clinical supervision, shadowing, mentoring and second opinions for the members of the team.
You will liaise with the Team Lead about any issues in service delivery and develop plans to manage these.
You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
You will lead on service development using your highly specialist knowledge and skills. This will include the development of policies, processes and pathways to enhance quality of patient care, in liaison with the Team Lead.
You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
You will implement, monitor and evaluate new ways of working, including providing audits/ outcome and progress reports on new workstreams.
You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children's workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: https://careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/