Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team Lead

Job overview

As part of this role, you will co-lead a team of Paediatric Speech and Language Therapists and non-registered staff. This includes managing performance, service development, audit and ensuring the smooth day to day running of the service. You will work alongside other Band 7 Leads across our Children’s Therapy team to support the development of the service as a whole. This post gives a great opportunity for you to develop and shape the service.

Your job clinically will be to provide expert clinical advice/ second opinions, intervention and management for a specialist mixed complex caseload with Speech sound disorders, DLD/Language Disorder as well as responsibility for management of a generalist mixed caseload.

There is scope for you to identify possible areas of Clinical Specialism which you might be interested in and Leadership training.

Main duties of the job

• Responsibility for the day to day management of an element of the Team to ensure the smooth running of the service.
• Management independently of a complex clinical caseload and provision of specialist advice, support and second opinions and also to flexibly support management of a broader generalist caseload.
• Supporting the development of the service through audit, quality initiatives and data analysis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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 people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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