Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Eccles; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust seeks a skilled Speech and Language Therapist with line management responsibilities and clinical leadership to lead a dedicated SLT team. You will supervise therapists and support staff, contribute to teaching, and drive service development with evidence-based practice.

You will provide strategic leadership, advise across agencies, and participate in research and audits to strengthen service delivery and outcomes for clients with complex communication and

Qualifications

• Line management responsibility for team.
• Provide clinical leadership and training to staff in SLT and wider team.
• Contribute to pre and post qualification teaching in SLT.
• Involve in recruitment of SLT or support staff.
• Lead on training and development programmes for staff and partners.

Responsibilities

• Provide in-depth specialist SLT assessments for complex cases.
• Formulate and implement support plans as part of the MDT.
• Evaluate outcomes and inform future practice with measures.
• Lead on service development and strategic clinical leadership.
• Represent the service locally and nationally where appropriate.
• Deliver teaching and supervision to students and junior staff.
• Ensure safeguarding requirements are upheld and maintained.

Skills

Leadership

Supervision

Clinical leadership

Staff training

Recruitment

Research

Safeguarding

Job description

Line Management responsibility for team. Full management responsibility for managing and prioritising caseload including delegation to other speech and language therapists in the team. Supervise other speech and language therapists and support workers in the team. Contribute to the pre and post qualification teaching of speech and language therapy. To provide clinical leadership and training to the wider staff team with regards to speech, language and communication. To provide strategic leadership within the Service in the development of areas such as the clinical model. To provide advice, consultation and training to staff working with the client group across a range of agencies and settings where appropriate. To provide in-depth specialist speech and language therapy assessments for the more complex service users referred to the team. To formulate and implement support plans as part of the MDT. Evaluate the impact of a support plan/intervention and use outcome measures to inform future
practice. Develop effective outcome measures both for SLT and the wider team to build on the existing evidence base. o provide clinical and strategic leadership across the health and social care network for the geographical area. Represent the service both nationally and locally as appropriate. Research: To utilise theory, evidence‑based literature and research to support practice and to contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audit. Advising the Team Manager about capacity, gaps in service delivery and operational issues. Being involved in the recruitment of other speech and language therapists or other staff within the teams. To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior members of staff. To act as supervisor, assessor and mentor for students, Speech and Language Therapists and junior staff. To facilitate the education of service users, relatives and other agencies concerned with the provision of learning disability services in the
community. To be involved in the development of training and information resources for partner agencies.To ensure safeguarding requirements are upheld. To provide statistical information as required by the Trust.To undertake duties as may be delegated by the Team Manager or the Clinical Lead. To utilise theory, evidence‑based literature and research to support practice. To contribute to the evidence base by leading and participating in research and audits whenever possible. Promote health and reduce inequalities for all patients accessing the speech and language therapy service, so that they may maximise their potential in terms of health education and social well-being. To lead on training and development programmes as appropriate to the knowledge and skills of the individual, delivering to other professionals and service users. Participate in the Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust (MCFT) PACE review process, ensuring business priority objectives are met and a
personal development plan is maintained and evaluated. Cascade the PACE process to departmental staff as appropriate. Be responsible for own continuing professional development, maintaining professional registration and meeting HPC registration requirements; maintain a professional portfolio and demonstrate evidence of reflective practice. Use highly developed skills to convey complex and sensitive clinical information, using a high level of persuasive and motivational skill to enable others to follow swallowing/therapy plans. Communicate clinical formulations and interventions to service users and carers in an understandable manner based on a person‑centred approach, which inspires hope to the service user and carer.