Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

NHS; Sowerby Bridge; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

The NHS is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join a newly developed Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce. This role involves providing support to vulnerable young people and working collaboratively with a multidisciplinary team to enhance communication strategies and educational provision. The therapist will offer specialist assessments, manage caseloads, and educate staff, contributing significantly to the well-being and development of children with complex needs.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children with complex needs.
• Ability to carry out specialist assessments and treatments.
• Knowledge of child development and paediatric conditions.

Responsibilities

• Liaise and offer advice on Speech and Language Therapy programmes.
• Support the development of strategies within educational settings.
• Manage a specialist caseload of clients.

Skills

Clinical Reasoning

Child Development Knowledge

Communication Skills

Education

Registered with HPC

Postgraduate Training

Clinical Educator Training

Masters Level Study or Equivalent

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The closing date is 01 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work as part of a newly developed Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce. The team consists of mental health professionals, educationalists, speech and language therapy, family workers, and other specialists who provide intensive support aimed at preventing vulnerable pupils from disengaging from education and potentially being vulnerable to child criminal exploitation.

This is a pilot taskforce who aim to support the needs of a targeted group of young people as well as influencing the way in which the Local Authority provides future provision to support the needs of this population. The role will be supported by Speech and Language Therapists within the core Speech and Language Therapy team as well as colleagues within the Specialist Taskforce.

Main duties of the job

To liaise with and offer advice in the management and implementation of Speech and Language Therapy programmes and to monitor and evaluate progress and revise programmes accordingly.

To liaise with and/or train relevant professionals, may be uni-professional and/or interdisciplinary/agency.

To support the development of universal and targeted level strategies and planning within the context of the Alternative Provision and wider educational settings.

To provide and demonstrate specialist evidence-based programmes of care and follow care pathways and published evidence-based packages of care.

To provide leadership and support to junior members of the team including one to one supervision, IPDR, clinical supervision and first line management response where required.

To provide clinical expertise based on evidence-based practice.

To work independently managing a caseload of clients with a range of SLCN in the context of SEMH.

To work autonomously within Trust policy and professional practice and maintain accurate and comprehensive records.

To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.

To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands.

To demonstrate knowledge of and adhere to RCSLT professional and clinical guidelines as well as national policies and procedures in clinical area

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

To act as a specialist clinician for the Calderdale Alternative Provision Specialist Taskforce supporting the wider team with the communication and engagement of young people accessing the provision. Undertaking assessments of the young peoples level of understanding and communication ability and carry out training of the wider workforce..

To audit and foster a communication friendly environment within the alternative Provision to ensure the young people are able to access the environment and to advise and support parents and carers with regards to speech, language and communication within the context of social, emotional and mental health needs.

To work autonomously within Trust policies and professional practice, maintaining accurate and comprehensive up to date records

To manage own specialist caseload in this area.

To perform specialist assessment and treatment of children and young people, with the aim of using education and advice to facilitate parents / carers and the wider multidisciplinary team to understand and actively participate in the management of the young person.

To determine a clinical diagnosis, develop, deliver, implement, evaluate and modify individualised treatment programmes and/or provide specialist advice, ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

To support transition of care to educational settings following the young person accessing the Alterative Provision (e.g. reintegration into mainstream provision or escalation to a longer term specialist placement)

To educate and train staff including both qualified and non-qualified social workers, youth workers, teachers, police Officers and other specialist health, education and social care staff.

To support and advise within the wider multi-agency team on the delivery of the service .

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• Registered with HPC
• Evidence of relevant Postgraduate Training
• Clinical Educator Training
• Member of Professional Body
• Studied at Masters level or equivalent

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

• Experience demonstrating ability to assess, treat and evaluate care in paediatrics
• Good Clinical Reasoning skills
• Evidence of CPD, self-directed learning and Reflective Practice
• Awareness of relevant Legislation, NSF'S/ Local and National initiatives
• Understanding of Clinical Governance
• Critical Appraisal Skills
• Ability to maintain legible and accurate records
• Evidence of experience of working with children with complex needs
• Knowledge of child development and a range of common paediatric conditions
• Ability to carry out specialist assessments and treatments and evaluate intervention in terms of quality and outcomes for children and their families
• Evidence of up to date best practice in paediatrics
• Knowledge and experience of the principles and practice of partnership working within an integrated team
• Knowledge and understanding of national and local priorities pertaining to children
• Previous experience working at Band 6 level with children with complex SEMH and communication needs
• Demonstrates positive attitude and behaviours
• Ability to communicate effectively with people with complex difficulties and in difficult situations
• Ability to organise own work and caseload
• Ability to work in a stressful environment and concentrate in conditions requiring emotional demands
• Ability to recognise own limitations and have a willingness to share and learn skills from others
• Ability to prioritise own and others' caseloads

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

• Experience of developing, supervising and training others
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate appropriately using knowledge of blurred boundary / competency frameworks
• Experience in dealing with complaints (e.g. diffusing complaint or investigating complaint)
• Carrying out PDR's

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata