Speech and Language Clinical Team Manager - Experts at Hand - CFHD

Devon Partnership Nhs Trust; Totnes; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon is advertising a Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Team Manager to provide day-to-day operational management within the Expert at Hand model. The role supports speech and language therapists and assistants, working across home, school and clinic settings.

The post holder will lead a team, collaborate with senior clinicians and service leads, oversee risk management and ensure delivery of evidence-based care in partnership with other pathways.

Qualifications

• Experience leading a clinical team in a health setting.
• Ability to monitor demand and capacity for service delivery.
• Collaborative working with multi-disciplinary teams and partners.
• Commitment to patient-centred care with families.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day operational management of the clinical team.
• Ensure delivery of evidence-based clinical care.
• Work with other pathways and partner organisations to deliver integrated care.
• Champion patient and family involvement in care planning and delivery.
• Identify and manage clinical and non-clinical risks in partnership with the Operations Manager.
• Maintain systems to monitor demand and optimize clinical capacity.
• Attend, chair and contribute to relevant meetings as required.
• Deputise for the Operations Manager when needed.

Skills

Leadership

Staff supervision

Operational management

Risk management

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

Job description

We are excited to be advertising for a Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Team Manager, working within the Expert at Hand model within the Speech, Language and Communication pathway. This role is for 0.6 WTE and we can consider a split of these hours to suit alongside your current roles. You will be joining the team at an exciting time of change, and you will be supported throughout by a strong team who is passionate about delivering high quality and innovative care. In the role you will provide the day-to-day operational management of the provision of care and treatment within the Speech, Language and Communication pathway, which consists of speech and language therapists and speech and language therapy assistants. This post holder will manage effective operational delivery of the service in close collaboration with Speech and Language Clinical Specialists, senior clinicians and other service leads within the Expert at Hand model. You will have supervisory skills and may complete clinical work across health in different environments such as home, schools and clinics.

• 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.

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon.

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people across physical and mental health which are provided by Torbay and South Devon Foundation Trust and Devon Partnership Trust. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and 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 clinical training placements and in addition support our own staff to undertake post graduate training. Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.