Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-6241394HN
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Shiremoor Resource Centre
- Town
- Shiremoor
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Speech and Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 5
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.
Job overview
We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Complex and Additional Needs Team.
We are looking to recruit innovative, caring and dynamic SLT's who would like to develop their skills in speech, language and communication and eating/drinking difficulties, in children and young people with complex needs and learning disability.
The posts will involve working into the paediatric part of the Complex and Additional Needs Team, working with children and young people aged 2-19 years with a range of complex needs. The successful candidates will work across Northumberland or North Tyneside, working into children’s homes, childcare and nursery/mainstream school settings and in special schools.
Main duties of the job
The Complex and Additional Needs SLT team are passionate about supporting people with complex needs, their families, their carers’ and professionals. We have well established strong connections with our Health, Adult Social Care and Local Authority colleagues allowing us to work in partnership at all levels. We have regular opportunities for joint CPD and clinical support and supervision with colleagues in the Community Paediatric SLT team.
We can offer you a highly rewarding post which includes:
- Clinical supervision including support to complete NQP competencies and be part of a bespoke preceptorship programme.
- Regular team meetings, peer support and supervision, clinical focus groups and the opportunity to attend Regional Clinical Excellence Networks.
- In-Service Training.
- Opportunities to contribute to Trust and Local Authority quality improvement work and innovations
- Opportunity to be actively involved in the design and implementation of the team annual planning
- Opportunity to work in partnership with other Health colleagues and Local Authority Services to ensure the highest quality of care
- Opportunity to work with the Regional Communication Aid Service (RCAS) when coordinating care and engaging in development work
- Close links with Newcastle University.
- Close working with Clinical Leads, Consultant and Highly Specialist SLTs in Dysphagia, AAC and Stammering in relation to evidence-based practice, innovation, audit and caseload management
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The successful candidates will work alongside other Therapists to deliver a service to a varied caseload of children/young people; from those who are non-verbal and use a wide range of communication strategies such as objects, signing, AAC to those who use verbal communication skills and have challenges when participating in play and learning activities. The post holders will be involved in the assessment and management of speech, language, communication difficulties and communication environments as well as supporting the children’s/young people’s parents/carers’ and/or educational staff to understand and support the child’s communication needs.
The successful candidates will have access to in-house and where appropriate external training in Makaton signing, Talking Mats, PECS, AAC, social communication interventions etc.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree qualification or equivalent
- Health and Care Professions Council – Licence to Practice
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hayley Fawcett
- Job title
- Clinical Lead SLT, CAN Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 2979031
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