Job overview

This is an excellent chance for a clinician with a keen interest in speech problems to join a well-established specialist service that forms part of a wider specialist network. Working as an independent practitioner alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines, you will assess, diagnose and manage patients (children and adults) who have complex speech problems related to cleft lip and palate and non-cleft velopharyngeal incompetence, both as individual one to one sessions and as part of busy multi-disciplinary clinics.  As you can imagine, this presents opportunities to carry out detailed assessments of complex speech problems and deliver therapy. You will also be involved with specialist speech investigation clinics (using videofluoroscopy, nasendoscopy), and assessing children’s speech on the ward post-speech surgery

Main duties of the job

Main purpose/Job Summary:

·         To be highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist in the field of cleft lip and palate and speech related disorders.

·         As an autonomous practitioner with highly specialist knowledge, skills and experience, to assess, diagnose and manage complex patients on one’s caseload.

·         To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of one’s professional and clinical work, working to agreed national and professional standards.

·         The post involves working in the location best suited to the patient’s needs at that time, including Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, community clinics, children’s centres and the patient’s home. Many of the patients are from families from diverse cultural backgrounds and speak languages other than English.

·         Some of the patients on caseload will have special educational needs.

·         To plan, deliver and evaluate training within the specialist area of cleft lip and palate and related disorders.

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.