Job overview

Location; Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital

Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital is a large 371 bedded tertiary Children’s Hospital that provides regional and supra-regional services to include most clinical paediatric specialties.

Due to maternity leave, we have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and reliable Band 5 acute paediatric speech and language therapist (SLT) to join our dynamic paediatric team on a 12 month contract.

In this role, you will contribute to ensuring continuity of care and service delivery. You will work closely with a multidisciplinary team, contributing your skills and expertise .

You will work within our acute team and have a delegated and supported caseload of children with a wide range of communication difficulties. You will form part of an MDT providing holistic care to patients across wards and specialist outpatient clinics. Our acute paediatric SLT team will support your development allocating a dedicated clinical supervisor.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone with

A UK recognised SLT degree with HCPC registration

Recent relevant clinical experience and transferable skills from either the hospital or community setting

 your work requirements are to:

 Provide assessment and management of children with a comprehensive range of communication needs liaising with the MDT.

Take responsibility for devising, monitoring, and evaluating advice/ programmes of care for parents/ carers and other professionals.

Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and be able to provide education, advice and support to patients, parents/carers, and the wider staff team.

Have excellent organisational and time management skills, being able to prioritise a busy workload and cope well under pressure.

Take responsibility for keeping up to date with recent developments and research relevant to clinical area and contribute to small scale audits and studies as appropriate.

Participate in training and teaching for other students, ward and other care staff

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.