Children''s SLT Team and Clinical Lead Early Years Complex Care

Overview

Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking to develop your clinical and team leadership skills? This role provides an opportunity to lead the early years complex needs service across Shropshire Telford and Wrekin and to contribute to longer term planning for the ongoing design of service delivery. These might include developing an all ages (0-19) complex needs support service to mainstream schools, or a place based wider early years speech, language and communication needs service supporting HVs and Family Hubs. This is an exciting time to come and work with us as we move into Year 2 of ELSEC, taking the learning and spirit of success from Year 1. If you are interested in shaping the future, working with parents and partners to consider how best to meet the needs of children and young people, their parents and education practitioners in innovative ways please call us to find out more. The balance of the role in relation to direct clinical and leadership time will be negotiated with the successful candidate. Systems are in place for effective professional support across Children\''s Therapy Teams and the Child Development Centres. Our commitment to personal development, training, including to Advanced Clinical Practice, peer review and supervision are important to us. The successful applicant will need to be able to meet the travel requirements of the post across Shropshire and Telford. We welcome applications from SLTs seeking flexible working.Main duties of the job

To be part of the management and clinical leadership team developing, delivering, and evaluating the Children\''s Speech and Language Therapy Service in line with the agreed service specifications determined by Commissioners.To provide clinical leadership for the service for young children with Complex Speech, Language and Communication Needs.To work in close partnership with parent/carers, professionals, and organisations to deliver a model of care, which makes a significant contribution to improving health, social and education outcomes, and reducing inequalities in access to services.To be responsible for all issues relating to clinical practice together with other Team and Clinical Leads within the Children\''s Speech and Language Therapy Team and relevant managers of Children\''s Services.About Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.Equal opportunities and safeguarding

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. The Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for disclosure to be made to the Criminal Records Bureau to check for any previous criminal ..... full job details .....