Job overview

This post represents an exciting opportunity to become the Lead highly specialist speech and language therapist, managing the South locality team in the Social Communication Pathway (SCP) in Manchester CAMHS. The postholder will be responsible for helping to develop the ND pathway, working across disciplines and agencies in the community to provide the best clinical care to children and young people and their families. The postholder will have experience of completing neurodevelopmental assessments and drawing together a diagnostic formulation and will be expected to work closely with the two other leads to ensure diagnostic services are equitable and transparent across the city. The postholder will also be expected to take a lead in developing the SCP pre assessment offer as part of the wider community pathway approach.

Main duties of the job

• To lead the team providing ND assessment to South locality, in line with service specifications and NICE guidance and with the support of the Strategic Lead for LDA.
• To line manage the MDT assessment team in the south locality
• To supervise speech and language therapists working in SCP across the city
• To work alongside clinical leads for Occupational Therapy and Mental Health who support the o north and south Social Communication Pathways to ensure assessment across the city for children and young people with social communication difficulties is transparent, fair and equitable and to engage in strategic development of the pathway model
• To complete diagnostic assessments as required, offer training and consultation as required

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.