Speech and Language Clinical Team Manager - CFHD

NHS; Totnes; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) within the NHS invites applications for a Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Team Manager. The role covers day-to-day operational management of the SLT pathway across settings including home, schools and clinics, leading a team of therapists and assistants.

The post requires supervising skills, collaboration with senior clinicians, and ensuring high-quality, evidence-based care while meeting performance targets.

Qualifications

• Experience of collaborating with service users and families/carers.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary work and across agencies.
• Experience delivering clinical practice for children with complex health needs; including risk assessments.
• Experience supervising others and developing supervisory relationships.
• Experience safeguarding children and ensuring safety in partnership with other agencies.
• Experience using data to improve services.

Responsibilities

• Provide effective collaborative leadership and day-to-day operational management of the clinical team.
• Ensure the delivery of evidence-based clinical care.
• Partner with other clinical pathways, health specialties and partner organisations.
• Engage with children, young people and their parents/carers to support active participation.
• Identify and manage clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway.
• Monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team.
• Collaborate with other leaders to maintain clinical standards and safety.
• Ensure service delivery meets key performance targets.
• Provide supervision and HR policy adherence for clinicians.

Skills

Supervising others

Leading multi-disciplinary teams

Data-driven service improvement

Collaborative leadership

HR and recruitment

Education

Bachelor-level degree or equivalent

Postgraduate diploma in supervision/leadership

Professional registration (NMC/HCPC/SWE/BABCP)

CPD evidence

Specialist therapeutic approach training

Job description

Speech and Language Clinical Team Manager - CFHD

We are excited to be advertising for a Speech andLanguage Therapy Clinical Team Manager, based within the South Devon andTorbay locality.

This role is for 1.2 WTE so we can consider full-time hours orpart-time. You will be joining the team at an exciting time of change, and youwill be supported throughout by a strong team who is passionate aboutdelivering high quality and innovative care.

In the role you will provide the day-to-day operationalmanagement of the provision of care and treatment within the Speech, Languageand Communication pathway, which consists of speech and language therapists andspeech and language therapy assistants.

This post holder will manage effective operational deliveryof the service in close collaboration with Speech and Language ClinicalSpecialists, senior clinicians and other service leads.

You will have supervisory skills and may complete clinicalwork across health and social care in different environments such as home,schools and clinics.

Main duties of the job

• Provide effective collaborative leadership and day to day operational management of the clinical team.
• Ensure the effective and efficient delivery of evidence based clinical care.
• Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with other clinical pathways within the locality, health specialties and partner organisations.
• Ensure the service is delivered in partnership with children, young people and their parents/ carers, ensuring their active participation is facilitated.
• In partnership with the Operations Manager, ensure that clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway are identified and managed effectively.
• To maintain systems to monitor demand and maintain optimal clinical capacity within the team.
• Work collaboratively with other leaders (professional, clinical and operational), to maintain excellent clinical standards and safety.
• Ensure clinical provision in the pathway is delivered to meet key performance targets.
• Provide supervision, operational management and support to clinicians , to understand and follow HR policies and procedures, ensure staff wellbeing and development and adopt a collaborative approach to engage staff.
• Attend, participate and chair relevant meetings, adapting communication to meet the needs of others.
• To deputise for the Operations Manager as required.

About us

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises anAlliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes forchildren and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children andyoung people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay andSouth Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are workingclosely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver localityand county-wide based integrated access to all of our services.

CFHD works closely with our local universities of Plymouth,Exeter & the Peninsula Medical School where we support students in clinicaltraining placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake postgraduate training.

Our integrated care and treatment has beendeveloped and refined in partnership with children, young people and theirfamilies/carers.

We would like thepeople who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding,patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe andcomfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience tolisten carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff arepositive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal andwithout pressure.

Job responsibilities

FullVacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/PersonSpecification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supportinginformation from the role requirements or person specification.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working collaboratively with service users and their families/carers, including using goal-based care and routine outcome measures in practice.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team and across agencies.
• Experience of delivering a clinical practice within the area of specialty for children with complex health conditions - undertaking specialist assessment and treatment interventions for children and young people with complex health problems; including risk assessments.
• Experience of supervising others and developing positive supervisory relationships with healthcare professionals.
• Experience of safeguarding children and ensuring the safety of young people in partnership with other agencies as appropriate.
• Experience of delivering healthcare within an equalities and human rights framework.
• Experience of initiating, organising and planning inter-agency meetings aimed at setting in place a treatment package tailored to the individual needs of a child/young person.
• Experience in involving service users as active partners in the delivery and or design of services.
• Experience in delivering healthcare in partnership with other organisations.
• Experience of engagement in service development and quality improvement.
• Experience of leading and managing multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience in managing HR and recruitment processes including staff appraisals, performance and sickness management.
• Experience of providing professional teaching and training for other professionals working with children/young people families.
• Experience of managing complaints, incidents and financial payments.
• Experience of using data to improve services.

Qualifications

• A professional qualification at degree level or equivalent e.g. Psychological profession, Nursing, Social Work, Occupational Therapy, or equivalent.
• Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in supervision and/or leadership skills.
• Professional registration/accreditation with a recognised body, e.g. NMC, HCPC, Social Work England, UKCP, BABCP
• Evidence of relevant CPD.
• Additional specialist training and qualification to post graduate diploma level or equivalent in an evidence-based therapeutic approach

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.