Advanced Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

We are excited to offer this full time position of Community Advanced Speech and Language Therapist.

We are looking for an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist with a passion for Community Service provision to lead, shape and Inform the onward journey of the service. The service covers across the coast, Ryedale and the picturesque moors of Whitby.   You will be responsible for assessment, intervention, and consultation of the community caseload, using advanced skills and clinical judgement.  You will Lead and contribute to service development and evidence based practice, whilst holding a caseload of complex patients along side.  If this appeals to you we are looking forward to hearing from you.

We can also offer part-time hours if more suitable.

Main duties of the job

Core Functions:

• To be accountable in own area of clinical responsibility, ensuring the delivery of evidence based clinical interventions and practice.
• Leads in specialist area; contributes to development of specialist service and 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 basedclinical practice; including involvement in research and audit. Undertake research specialist treatment and provide advanced practice.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on this role, please see attached Job Description and person specifications. Also visit the Humber Trust website for a wider overview of the services we provide