Professional and Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist

St. George's University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust is seeking an experienced Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with advanced clinical skills for managing complex cases and mentoring staff. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree and substantial experience in the NHS. This role offers the opportunity to develop and implement strategic service initiatives while ensuring high standards of patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered with the HCPC and RCSLT.
• Management or leadership training.
• Significant experience in working as an SLT at an 8a level.

Responsibilities

• Autonomous practitioner managing complex swallowing or communication disorders.
• Mentoring and supervising SLT staff.
• Leading service evaluations and quality improvement projects.

Skills

Effective time management

Clinical leadership

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Research methodologies

IT skills

Behaviour change skills

Education

Masters degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description for more details on the main responsibilities for this role.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria

• Registered with the HCPC and RCSLT
• Masters degree or equivalent experience. Working at Masters level and beyond
• Relevant membership of other professional groups and organisations/CENs
• Management or leadership training

Desirable criteria

• Further postgraduate qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant proven competence in the independent assessment, treatment and management of complex swallowing and/ or communication disorders
• Previous proven experience of working as an SLT at an 8a level
• Proven experience in provision of staff mentoring, supervision and CPD
• Extensive experience in training and developing other health care professionals Extensive experience of working within the NHS
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Evidence of undertaking service evaluations, quality improvement projects and audits through to completion
• Experience of effective teaching and presenting data and information to a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrates skills in strategic SLT service evaluation including risk management, quality standards and clinical A /I effectiveness
• Familiar with national and local policies and agendas and identifies implications for SLT service and implementation of these
• Able to demonstrate continuing professional development at a post graduate level through an up -to -date CPD portfolio
• Experience of writing documentation to support business cases and recruitment processes for existing and new posts

Skills

Essential criteria

• Autonomous practitioner who has the proven ability to work unsupervised
• Effective time management and the ability to prioritise own SLT workload and that of other SLTs equitably across SLT services as required, responding to unpredictable changes in staffing levels
• Ability to supervise staff directly accountable to post holder
• Demonstration of professional and effective verbal and written communication skills, including excellent negotiation skills with patients, carers and other health professional staff in complex case management, conflict management and service delivery issues including situations where complex, sensitive and/or contentious information needs to be discussed.
• Demonstration of clinical leadership qualities e.g. management of change, clinical competence, the ability to negotiate and influence at operational and strategic levels
• Proven experience in leading the A / I development of local policies and care protocols informed by a strong evidence base.
• Proven advanced skills in leading on planning, reviewing and auditing uni- and multidisciplinary service delivery.
• Proven ability to develop bids for resources to match service needs.
• Proven ability to identify areas for own personal/professional development and those of other SLT staff, through highly developed reflective practice skills.
• Ability to actively participate in research, demonstrating knowledge of research methodologies and research application
• Application of Health and Safety and risk management policies
• Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes
• Negotiation skills
• Ability to lead: within the therapy profession and multi professional working; within an organisation and across organisational boundaries.
• Strategic planning abilities
• Ability to translate and integrate evidence based research/ guidelines in the development of clinical practice
• Innovative and creative thinker keen to implement change
• Excellent IT skills, including word processing, PowerPoint, spreadsheets and e-mail
• Behaviour change skills/ motivational interviewing

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Broad knowledge of RCSLT clinical policies and evidencebase to support service developments.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of Clinical Governance
• Understanding of the impact of current government policy developments
• Understanding of current NHS issues and commissioning

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these. More information on the vision and values of St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is attached below.

Please note that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient applicants are received. Please check your email regularly as all candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted and informed by email.

If you are appointed to the post, as part of your pre-employment check we will be required to verify your identity. The document/s you present for this purpose will be checked for their authenticity by scanning all known security features. These features will include:

- The machine readable zone
- An ultra violet image
- An infra red image

As part of your pre-employment checks, we will also be required to obtain satisfactory, written references. Please ensure that the referee details which you provide on your application form are correct. We require at least one written reference from your current or most recent line manager. We are only able to accept references from a professional work email address.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• JD (PDF, 251.9KB)
• Referee Contact details form (PDF, 200.6KB)