Highly Specialist Childrens Speech & Language Therapist - £5000 Bonus - #144974

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our organisation in a newly developed role and team as a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist for Children with Special Educational Needs (SEND) and Clinical Lead.

Would you like to lead on this role within the speech and language therapy team? Are you keen to develop the service to incorporate innovation, best practice and learning?

Do you want to be able to work from home and from a clinical base? Would you like to thrive in an organisation that values staff wellbeing and invests in your development? If yes, then this role is for you.

Rewards And Benefits

• A welcome award of £5000 is offered for this post, payable within the first 18 months of employment! (Subject to T&Cs)
• Excellent learning and development to support you and develop your AHP career.
• Flexible working opportunities
• Free parking on Trust Sites
• Competitive Millage Rates
• Paid for DBS Update Service Subscription
  
  

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is committed to training and developing its staff not only with clinical skills but also in leadership and managerial skills.

You’ll also have access to our generous pension scheme and health service discounts, as well as generous annual leave plus bank holidays.

Working life

As a Highly Specialist Children's Speech and Language Therapist, you'll

• Provide clinical leadership to a designated group of S&LT’s
• Independently manage a caseload of highly complex cases
• Provide timely S&LT advice, reports and programmes to be integrated within the child or young person’s daily curriculum
• Utilise technology to enable you to update records as you go
  
  

The service aims to provide an excellent standard of care that supports patients across Northamptonshire. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support the service and balance clinical appointments with other responsibilities and allocate significant time for intervention in every role.

Must Have Skills

You will need to be adaptable and resourceful. You'll need to be well organised, confident and able to cope in diverse situations to deliver patient care. Leadership and management skills are also important, as with all nursing roles, communication skills, problem solving and good judgement are crucial.

You will have an induction period with shadowing and joint sessions, as well as regular peer group supervisions if applicable.

Join us and become part of Team NHFT.

Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has been rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We take great pride in our staff and believe that investing in you is key to us achieving our vision to be a leading provider of outstanding compassionate care.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Samantha Poulson Job title: Service Manager for Children's Therapies Email address: [email protected]