Job summary
- Main area
- Project Management
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 448-SUPS-6096048
- Employer
- Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Meadows
- Town
- St Ives
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/05/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 30/05/2024
Employer heading
Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) Workforce Project Lead
Band 8a
Driven by our Trust values: Honesty, Empathy, Ambition, Respect; the Trust's vision is to provide high quality care to the diverse communities we serve to make their lives better.
We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our cultural diversity, long term conditions and disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ staff networks are a key part of this commitment, creating positive change and helping build an inclusive culture across the Trust.
Different ideas, experiences and backgrounds make us stronger and more creative and applications from all walks of life are welcomed - our processes ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
Options for flexible working are considered for all roles within CCS, including job share opportunities, compressed hours, annualised hours, tailored working patterns and more. If you are interested in flexible working, please talk to the recruiting manager for this vacancy.
Job overview
The successful candidate will work with the Cambridgeshire Community Services (CCS) Speech & Language Therapy (SLT) services working in the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough (C&P) and Bedford, Luton & Milton Keynes (BLMK) Integrated Care Services (ICS) to identify and develop initiatives to support the development and retention of existing Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy assistants.
Salary is dependant on experience.
Please note that should we receive a high number of applications, we reserve the right to close the advert earlier than advertised.
Main duties of the job
The post is responsible for supporting the clinical SLT services in BLMK and C&P ICSs to deliver and evidence outstanding quality of care for service users through the completion of workforce development aims for the SLT services.
Project manage work needed to meet ICS’ workforce development aims and lead on these using Quality Improvement (QI) methodology.
To regularly feedback project developments to the BLMK and C&P Faculties.
The project is expected to have a significant positive impact on the SLT workforce, leading to a more diverse, well-trained, and well-supported workforce. This will ultimately benefit patients / service users by improving access to high-quality speech and language therapeutic care.
Working for our organisation
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding – and that’s our amazing staff who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Manage and develop the ICS’ programme to embed the workforce development aims for SLT services. To develop a SLT career roadmap, maximising on local talent and recruitment into the ICS.
To develop and document career progression pathways, including opportunities to develop further via apprenticeships, and enhanced and advanced practice.
To review and scope Higher Education Institutions (HEI) regional and national apprenticeship programmes to ensure a robust SLT future pipeline to proactively guide future workforce planning.
To develop agreed competencies for B3/B4/B5 for specific roles to support the retention of existing SLT assistants. The competencies would allow the development of new models of SLT care and these will be shared across the region.
To develop agreed career progression pathways for B6/7/experienced therapists to identify opportunities for the development of ACP roles within SLT, and to scope potential gaps in service where Advances Clinical Practice (ACP) SLT could mitigate risks.
Lead programmes of improvement activity based on identifying excellence in clinical quality. For the project lead to provide the regional AHP Clinical Leadership Team with a project report, to evidence the impact of funding provision, and to positively influence service delivery in other Trusts across the region
Engage with key stakeholders to support learning and change. Working as a senior clinical leader, work with all SLT services to identify, implement and innovate to drive workforce change and improvement. Support the development of professional practice as a result of Trust, regional and national developments.
Develops and implements specialist policies that are needed to ensure the smooth and effective implementation of this policy
Be an active member of the ICS to influence and inform the quality agenda for Speech and Language therapists via reporting, improvement and learning, and by providing expert knowledge where relevant.
Person specification
Qualificatons and Training
Essential criteria
- Relevant degree and postgraduate level qualification (or equivalent experience).
- Recognised project management qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Degree level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Speech and Language Therapy
- Evidence of post registration qualification/study/development.
- Registered with RCSLT.
- Registration with a Clinical Professional body, i.e. HCPC.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven record of working with teams to deliver improved outcomes for patients/ staff.
- Recent senior clinical/managerial level experience.
- Clear understanding of contemporary clinical quality agendas.
- Understand clinical governance systems and processes.
- Service improvement/change management experience.
- Experience of managing effective clinical risk management.
- Experience of leading programmes of engagement with staff and/or patients with defined outcomes.
- Knowledge and experience of project management.
- Leading a project involving several stakeholders/teams or professions.
- Experience of facilitation of sharing best practice or innovation across teams or services or organisations.
Desirable criteria
- Leadership models, implementing change and/or new clinical practices.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Has excellent interpersonal skills.
- Can translate national/regional and local policy into Trust relevant actions.
- Can communicate with staff at all levels of different organisations and engage them in relevant projects and activity.
- Can empower staff to take ownership of key areas of development.
- Has competent keyboard skills and ability to communicate through IT using packages such as Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Can lead change effectively.
- Has advanced report writing skills.
- Has excellent time keeping and prioritisation skills.
- Has competent project management skills.
Desirable criteria
- Is familiar with project management systems.
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults.
Essential criteria
- Has ability to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people/ vulnerable adults.
- Demonstrates understanding of safeguarding issues.
- Can demonstrate an ability to contribute towards a safe environment.
- Is up to date with legislation and current events.
Working within Professional Boundaries
Essential criteria
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Recognises the limits of own authority within the role.
- Seeks and uses professional support appropriately.
- Understands the principle of confidentiality.
- Demonstrates professional curiosity.
Emotional Awareness
Essential criteria
- Is aware of the range of emotions in self and others.
- Demonstrates empathy for the concerns of others.
- Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
- Encourages others to express themselves openly.
- Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
- Shows respect for others’ feelings, views and circumstances
- In highly stressful situations, keeps own feelings in check, take constructive action and calms others down.
- Has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress, recognises when to use them and does so appropriately.
- Listens to personal comments without becoming defensive.
Self-awareness
Essential criteria
- Has a balanced understanding of self and others.
- Has a realistic knowledge of personal strengths and areas for development.
- Can demonstrate flexibility of approach.
- Shows a realistic appreciation of the challenges of working with teams and services to implement change and improvement.
Other
Essential criteria
- Can travel across the geography of BLMK and C&P ICS’, sometimes at short notice.
- Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire D'Agostino
- Job title
- Assistant Director of AHPs
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07517533518
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