Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a clinical leadership in Speech and Language Therapy for Surgery and Critical Care services within the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

As a clinical lead, you will work closely with speech and language therapists and multi-professional colleagues across the Trust, to ensure high quality speech and language care is provided for all patients in the service. You will also have the opportunity to influence change in the service delivery, working effectively in smaller teams to lead improvement and innovation across different pathways. 

This an excellent opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge within Critical Care and Surgery including voice/ENT alongside expanding your skills across each of the Four Pillars of Practice. This role has a strong component of leading clinical transformation and improvement projects across clinical areas within the service. There will be opportunities to engage in research, present your work and lecture in the areas of your clinical expertise. You will also be expected to support the learning and development of other speech and language therapists and multi-professional colleagues through training, supervision, reflective practice and other evidence based approaches to adult learning.

You will join a friendly team of over 20 speech and language therapists. You will be primarily based at York Hospital and will travel to Scarborough and other Trust localities regularly. 

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a supportive senior Speech and Language leadership team, including other Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapists, a Team Manager, as well as Senior Operational Manager and Speech and Language Therapy Professional Lead.

You will provide clinical leadership for a team that includes registered speech and language therapists, assistant practitioners and support workers. Excellent team working and communication skills are essential, as is the ability to work autonomously to assess and manage a caseload of complex patients.

Applicants must be able to demonstrate leadership capabilities reaching beyond their clinical area of expertise. You need to be resilient and able to manage and prioritise your caseload whilst supporting the work and development of the team, managing conflicting demands using your prioritisation, organisation and communication skills and proposing solutions to complex problems.

The Speech and Language Therapy department provide clinical inpatient and outpatient services to a variety of specialities, including Critical Care, Voice and ENT and Head and Neck Oncology. The department is well established in facilitating the training of Speech and Language Therapy students and staff are involved in delivering a variety of rolling training programmes for other health care professionals across the Trust, relating to eating, drinking and communication.

Working for our organisation

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully.  If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.