Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist / Team Leader

Job summary

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Become the Heartbeat of Our Team

Are you passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people? Halton Childrens Specialist Services has a rare and exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking Team Leader to join our brand-new Childrens Community Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team.

Based at the Crow Wood Health Park, you will be the driving force behind a service built on integrated, person-centred care. If you uphold the values of respect and excellence, we want to hear from you.

Why Join Halton Children's Services?

• Shape a New Team: Play a foundational role in building and guiding a brand-new community service.
• True Autonomy: Lead specific, impactful projects to evolve our service in line with national standards.
• Collaborative Culture: Work within a dedicated specialist network that feels like a community.
• Value-Driven Environment: Thrive in a Trust that actively live its core values of respect and excellence.
• Your Impact & Responsibilities Operational Leadership: Partner with the Operational Manager to implement and drive strategic service plans. Team Management: Act as the heartbeat of the team, providing daily leadership, management, and clinical support. Integrated Care: Ensure SLT teams work collaboratively to deliver seamless, high-quality care to families. Strategic Evolution: Help align local clinical delivery with national objectives and modern standards
• Operational Leadership: Partner with the Operational Manager to implement and drive strategic service plans.
• Team Management: Act as the heartbeat of the team, providing daily leadership, management, and clinical support.
• Integrated Care: Ensure SLT teams work collaboratively to deliver seamless, high-quality care to families.

Main duties of the job

• Lead the developments of the Childrens Speech & Language Therapy Service in line with best practice outlined within research, national guidelines and local governance arrangements.

• provide management supervision to the Speech and Language Therapy Service staff.

Undertake timely performance development reviews (PDR) for SLT staff in line with service and organisational requirements. Ensure the continued development of clinical skills across the team prioritising according to clinical and departmental needs, ensuring PDPs reflect the service priorities and are in place for all staff

Ensure Statutory and Mandatory training is maintained for the service.

• Provide specific clinical and line management supervision to staff within the Childrens Speech and Language Therapy Service

• To have a lead role in the co-ordination of risk management, investigating accidents, near misses, complaints as per Trust policy and Procedure.

Job responsibilities

Flexible working will be considered for all roles.

North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM) serves more than one million residents across the Halton and Warrington boroughs and the wider North West region.

Bringing together community and out-of-hospital services (formerly provided by Bridgewater Community Healthcare) with inpatient and elective care (formerly Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals) we provide services at two hospital sites and more than 70 community hubs and facilities.

Our mission, vision and values are at the heart of North Cheshire and Mersey NHS Foundation Trust (NCM).

They underpin everything we do and everything we aspire to be as an organisation.

Our mission

We will be exceptional for our patients, our communities and each other

Our vision

We will be a great organisation providing excellent healthcare and opportunities to work and learn

Our values

• Kind: We are caring, supportive and respectful to everyone
• Open: We are honest, transparent and open to new ways of working
• Fair: We listen, value our differences and are inclusive to all
• One team: We work well together and with our communities