Clinical Lead, Pediatric Dysphagia & Neurodisability SLT

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust; Peterlee; Sur place; GBP 52 000 - 68 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the Children's Speech and Language Therapy Team as Clinical Lead for Children's Neurodisability (Dysphagia).

This is an exciting opportunity to combine specialist clinical practice with leadership, supporting children and young people (0-18 years) with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties and/or complex communication needs.

Qualifications

• Holds a highly specialist clinical caseload of children and young people with complex communication and/or dysphagia needs.

Responsabilités

• Holds a highly specialist clinical caseload of children and young people with complex communication and/or dysphagia needs.
• Provides clinical leadership across Childrens Speech and Language Therapy services.
• Delivers specialist advice, consultation and second opinions to speech and language therapists and other professionals.
• Supervises speech and language therapists, assistant practitioners, students and support staff as delegated.
• Leads service development, audit, quality improvement and pathway development initiatives.
• Works across health, education and partner agencies to ensure integrated care delivery.
• Contributes to workforce planning, service evaluation and performance monitoring.

Description du poste

County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join the Children's Speech and Language Therapy Team as Clinical Lead for Children's Neurodisability (Dysphagia).

This is an exciting opportunity to combine specialist clinical practice with leadership, supporting children and young people (0-18 years) with eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties and/or complex communication needs.