This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop their skills working within CYP with SEND 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 the SEND arena including children with a diverse range of communication difficulties/dysphagia. You will work closely with the established team, Early Years Education providers and Special Schools. You will also support the team lead in new service development activities. If you do not meet all of the essential criteria this post may be considered as a Band 5-6 Development in which case, we would expect that competencies would be developed within 12 months. We would also provide full training for post basic dysphagia competencies.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for providing a specialist assessment, management and interventions for children and young people with a range of communication difficulties including feeding and swallowing (dysphagia). This may include supporting children and young people with SLCN with a Functional impact, DLD, and Language Disorder with associated biomedical conditions and Speech sound disorders.

To work within early years and Special School settings, homes and outpatient clinic locations as required

To provide training as appropriate for colleagues, carer's, other professionals and Speech and Language Therapists. This may require some twilight sessions.

To assist the Operational Lead and Team leads in planning and developing the service.

It would be expected that the Job Holder would complete B6 competencies and training within the first 12 months of the post starting and will be expected to participate in cross site cover as required for dysphagia.

To support, facilitate and educate 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.

About us

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.

Job description

Job 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 peoples 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/

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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

• Relevant degree/MSC
• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Post graduate qualifications in relevant paediatric courses

Experience

Essential

• oPost graduate Assessment and intervention experience in Speech and Language Therapy across a range of Paediatric clinical areas relevant to the post.
• Post grad experience of managing at least 1 more complex clinical pathway (for example Speech Sound Disorders, DLD, Language Disorder, Autism, AAC)
• oExperience of working with other professionals e.g., schools, pre-school settings

Desirable

• oClinical experience as Autonomous practitioner for management of complex clinical paediatric clinical pathways relevant to the post

Employer details

Employer name

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Address

New Beacon house/ community

Ridgeway

Scunthorpe

DN17 1BS

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