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

Children and Family Health Devon; Totnes; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 32,000; Part time

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is advertising for a Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Team Manager working within the Expert at Hand model. This 0.6 WTE role involves day-to-day operational management of a team of SLTs and SLT assistants, collaborating with specialists and other leads to deliver high-quality care across settings.

The post requires supervisory experience, partnership working with families and other agencies, and a commitment to service development and quality

Qualifications

• Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams and supervising staff.
• Experience in safeguarding children and inter-agency collaboration.
• Experience delivering care within an equalities and human rights framework.
• Experience planning inter-agency meetings for treatment packages.
• Experience involving service users as partners in service design.
• Experience in service development and quality improvement.
• Experience HR processes including appraisals and sickness management.
• Experience in teaching/training other professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and day-to-day operational management of the clinical team.
• Ensure delivery of evidence-based clinical care and target compliance.
• Collaborate with other pathways, departments, and partner organisations.
• Engage with children, young people and families to facilitate active participation.
• Identify and manage clinical and non-clinical risks within the pathway.
• Maintain systems to monitor demand and clinical capacity.
• Work with leaders to uphold clinical standards and safety.
• Supervise clinicians and support HR policies and staff wellbeing.
• Attend, participate in and chair relevant meetings; deputise as required.

Skills

Leadership

Team management

Clinical supervision

Safeguarding

Inter-agency collaboration

Data-driven service improvement

HR management

Teaching & training

Managing complaints & incidents

Engaging with families

Education

Degree-level qualification

Postgraduate leadership/ supervision training

Professional registration (NMC/HCPC/ etc.)

Evidence of CPD

Job description

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

We are excited to be advertising for a Speech andLanguage Therapy Clinical Team Manager, working within the Expert at Handmodel within the Speech, Language and Communication pathway. This role is for0.6 WTE and we can consider a split of these hours to suit alongside yourcurrent 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 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 within the Expert atHand model.

You will have supervisory skills and may complete clinicalwork across health 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

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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.