Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust; Backworth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an innovative Speech and Language Therapist to enhance children's speech, language and communication services across paediatric teams, schools, and community settings. The role involves leading development, coordinating and evaluating service delivery and supervising junior SLTs to maintain high standards.

You will work with multi‑agency teams to support children with complex needs, including autism and cerebral palsy, and help families

Qualifications

• Knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of complex communication difficulties including autism, cerebral palsy and severe learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead role for developing, coordinating and evaluating service delivery within the caseload area.
• Supervise junior SLTs and provide professional development.
• Collaborate with multi‑agency teams across health and education to plan holistic care.
• Support families to embed communication strategies in daily practice.

Job description

The posts will involve working primarily into the paediatric part of our team, with sessions into both our pre-school and community-based team who work into children's homes, early years settings and mainstream and special school settings. Both aspects involve working jointly with other professionals in a child's multi-disciplinary team.

The post holder will take a lead role for developing, coordinating and evaluating service delivery within the caseload area and will be involved with the supervision of junior SLT's.

The successful candidate should have knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of complex communication difficulties including for those with Autism, cerebral palsy, severe learning disability etc. The successful candidate should also have knowledge and skills in supporting families and settings to embed communication strategies into their daily practice. It is desirable for the successful candidate to have knowledge and skills in assessment and management of eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties to enable them to work alongside colleagues to provide care for the needs of those referred to the service.

We are looking to recruit an innovative, caring and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), who would like to further develop their existing skills in children's speech, language and communication assessment and treatment, and to further develop clinical leadership, in particular for children / young people with complex needs and disability., Excellent organisational, prioritisation and time management skills are essential along with well-developed interpersonal and influencing skills and an ability to effectively contribute to multi-agency teams across health and education to ensure holistic care to enable the highest standards of service delivery.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!