Children’s SLT Community Clinical Lead with Triage and Advice Line

Job overview

This is an opportunity to develop your career and your practice with children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.

The role provides opportunities to develop both your clinical and team leadership, and your service delivery and performance management skills.

If you would like to:

• Be part of the Children's SLT leadership team; implementing, developing, and evaluating the children's SLT service and supporting the delivery of evidence based outcomes across the SLT service for children with speech, language and communication needs.
• Provide clinical leadership for the triage and advice line services. To work in close partnership with other professionals and organisations to deliver an integrated model of care, making a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities.
• Be responsible for issues relating to clinical and best practice in early years and school settings, alongside education colleagues.
• And continue to provide direct highly specialist SLT care for children, their families and educational practitioners.

Then this will be a fascinating role for you to consider!

Main duties of the job

This is a highly specialist clinical post as described in the job profile. The post holder is required to work independently as an advanced practitioner and adviser within it.

• To advise Clinical Service Manager/Team Leader on service development and deliver for children and young adults.
• To act as an advisor in relation to triage clinical decision making and the advice line.
• To monitor and support other members of the team through co-working, coaching, mentoring and training.
• To liaise with Clinical Service Manager/Team Leader and colleagues on development of service protocols and patient pathways to improve client experience and ensure safe practice.
• To provide highly specialist assessment, differential diagnosis and appropriate therapy intervention for children referred to the service across settings.
• To provide specialist advice, strategies, programmes of work and reports on children with complex speech, language and communication difficulties as appropriate within these settings.
• To provide specialist advice, liaison with other professionals, strategies, programmes of work and reports on children with complex speech, language communication including those with additional needs.
• To work collaboratively with parents/carers, sharing knowledge and skills and supporting them to develop their understanding of their child’s speech, language and communication difficulties and how they can help their child communicate.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.