Job summary
- Main area
- S&L
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (To cover Maternity leave - Secondment opportunity for internal candidates)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 208-0699AA-24-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Beacon House
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist
Band 6
Job overview
May be available as a B5-6 development post if the applicant does not have all of the essential criteria
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop their skills working within Early Years in a small and supportive team. We are looking for a self- motivated, friendly and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our established Children’s Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire.
Your job will be to provide Speech and Language support and input to children within Early Years arena to those who are most vulnerable to provide early identification and support as well as enhanced training for the wider workforce. You will work closely with the Local Authority and team lead to develop and evaluate this new service as part of the “Communication Counts” agenda in our area.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for providing a early advice, support and intervention for children in the early years arena and who are most vulnerable. This may include CYP with a wide range of communication difficulties.
- To work within early years settings, homes and clinic locations primarily.
- To work with the Local Authority to develop, provide and co-deliver training for the early years workforce as part of the area wide approach.
- To assist the Operational Lead and Team leads in planning and developing the service.
- To support, facilitate and empower families and other professionals in supporting needs of a child/ young person with communication difficulties across a range of settings.
- To manage a defined caseload of more complex patients using advanced evidence based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, including discharge.
Working for our organisation
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://joinnlag.co.uk/
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/ MSC in Speech and Language Therapy
- HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
- • Post graduate study in appropriate clinical areas e.g. MSc modules in Paediatrics
- • Wide range of CPD activities, esp. related to specialist area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post graduate experience in Speech and Language Therapy across a range of Paediatric clinical areas relevant to the post.
- • Experience of working with at least one more complex clinical pathway (for example Speech Sound Disorders, DLD, Language Disorder, Autism, AAC)
- • Experience of working with other professionals e.g., schools, pre-school settings
Desirable criteria
- • Clinical experience as Autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical paediatric clinical pathways relevant to the post
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Howard
- Job title
- Operational Lead for Children's Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033 30758
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Recruitment Team
Recruitment Office
Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital
Scartho Road
Grimsby
UK
DN31 2QQ
- Telephone
- 03033 306519
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