Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist & Team Lead (West)

Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Camborne; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Cornwall is seeking a skilled Speech and Language Therapist to lead their West Locality Team. This role involves managing a dedicated team to provide high-quality therapy services for children and young people with speech, language, and communication needs. Opportunities for clinical skill development and leadership are available in this supportive environment.

Benefits

Supportive working environment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in leading a speech and language therapy team.
• Skills in assessment and intervention for children with communication needs.
• Competence in Dysphagia management, if applicable.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the speech and language therapy locality team.
• Provide assessments and interventions for children and young people.
• Monitor and report on team performance and service deliveries.

Skills

Leadership

Speech and Language Therapy

Dysphagia management

Education

Relevant Speech and Language Therapy qualification

Job description

This job is currently only open to people who already work for the NHS in Cornwall or the Isles of Scilly. We are committed to supporting our dedicated staff, so only current employees of the following organisations can apply:

• Cornwall Foundation Trust
• Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust
• Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Integrated Care Board

If you do not currently work for one of these NHS organisations, your application will not be considered at this time.

We are seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SaLT) to be our new team lead for our West Locality Team. The West team has around 15 staff members who form part of our countywide service and work alongside our Central and East Locality Teams to provide speech and language therapy support for Cornwall and the Isle of Scilly.

The post holder will form part of our children's speech and language therapy leadership team who work together to ensure we are running a quality evidenced base service which meets the needs of children and families, as well as being a happy and dynamic place to work. The post holder will also have opportunity to maintain and develop their clinical skills by holding a small community caseload, and provide assessment and/or intervention in line with our service offer.

The community caseload can also include Dysphagia if the post holder has RCSLT competence and this is an area of interest for them.

The post holder will be responsible for leading and managing a speech and language therapy locality team. This involves line management responsibility for your locality team, overseeing allocation and through put of clinical cases in your area, monitoring and reporting on performance of locality team, leading on and contributing to service wide projects and participating in service forums.

The post holder will be required to participate in the delivery of a speech and language therapy service providing specialist assessments, intervention and advice for children and young people with Speech, Language and Communication Needs, and if they hold the relevant competencies, swallowing difficulties.

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK. Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.