Job requirements
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Essential
8 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Excellent interpersonal skills and supervisory experience
- Skills
Excellent communication skills
- Skills
Ability to lead and motivate
- Experience
Evidence of post-registration professional practice
- Experience
Proven leadership/management experience, able to demonstrate examples of positive impact/change within service delivery/practice at an advanced level
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Professional knowledge acquired through degree and Post Graduate specialist qualifications
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Current HCPC professional registration
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
Desirable
3 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Ability to work across team/organisational boundaries developing and maintaining multi-professional and multi-agency partnerships
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Accredited leadership/management qualification
- Qualifications and Knowledge
Advanced/expert clinical qualification
Job overview
We are looking for an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Forensic Services. The is an exciting new post and will provide a service to the East Riding Youth Justice Team as well as the Learning Disability and Autism pathway within the Community Forensic Service for adults.
The post time is split evenly between the services and is supported by an MDT for FCAMHS as well as an MDT within the Community Forensic Team.
We recognise that people with Speech Language and Communication Needs are dis-proportionally represented in the criminal justice system and early support is essential.
You will join a supportive multi-disciplinary team, working closely with partner agencies to support young people and adults with complex needs. You will deliver a trauma informed service and be confident in risk management, with a strong track record of clinical leadership.
The successful candidate will receive a comprehensive induction programme and will receive specialist clinical and professional supervision.
Main duties of the job
- To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
- Provides an SLT lead in Forensic Community Team and in East Riding Youth Justice Services, utilising related policies, legislation to support evidence-based practice.
- Supervises/manages staff/students working in own specialist area
- Assess and treats own caseload of patients, individually and/or in groups, as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a variety of settings
- To continue to demonstrate advanced clinical skills in practice and provide support and advice re service development and the delivery of care in partnership with patients, relatives, staff, managers, external agencies, within the multi-disciplinary Hub team and across the geographical area
- To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
- To work with Professional Leads to ensure delivery of evidenced based clinical practice; including involvement in research and audit. Undertake research specialist treatment and provide advanced practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regards to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification
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.
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This advert is for Advanced Practitioner Speech and Language Therapist with Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust in Willerby, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist role. The advertised salary is £49,387 - £56,515 per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 13 Sep 2026.
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