Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting position has arisen within our community Speech and Language Therapy Team (SLT) with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. This role offers an opportunity to be the SLT Team lead for the friendly and supportive SLT team in Northallerton while providing highly specialist skills to work clinically with a complex and diverse adult community caseload.

You will provide operational leadership and service management to the team and work closely with the SLT leadership team at HDFT. You will provide direct line management for several members of the team and will deputise for the SLT professional and management lead as required.

Clinically, you will provide highly specialist assessment and treatment to a wide range of adult neurology patients. This will be both in our outpatient clinic based at the Friarage Hospital and in patients’ own homes. Opportunities to work with complex dysphagia, dysfluency, voice, and other complex presentations are also available.

There is a monthly videofluoroscopy clinic, so videofluoroscopy skills are highly desirable. This role could provide an amazing opportunity for you to train and acquire skills for this instrumental assessment or to further develop in this area. MBSImP has recently been introduced at HDFT.

Main duties of the job

The post will enable you to develop highly specialist skills within a supportive team structure, with regular supervision and the opportunity to contribute to the development of the service. The role includes:

• Being the team lead and providing leadership to the H & R Adult SLT team
• Attending the monthly quality of care meetings with the team leads and managers from the wider teams, ensuring governance within the team
• Leading on service development and clinical effectiveness
• Deputising for the Adult SLT Manager/Professional Lead as required
• Line management of team members
• Providing clinical supervision
• Assessment and treatment of adult neurology patients with communication and swallowing needs
• Assessment and treatment of patients with dysfluency or voice difficulties as competent to do so
• Providing support, supervision, training, and line management of SLT/SLTAs as required
• Undertaking assessment and treatment of patients on The Rutson Rehab unit, outpatient clinics, and inpatient and domiciliary visits to patients’ homes and care homes
• Attending monthly videofluoroscopy clinics and training in this area as required

About us

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds, and parts of the North East.

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff, and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork, and Equality. If you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition – as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service, and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Please note:

• Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications.
• Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
• Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.

Job responsibilities

For further information on this position please see the Job Description & Personal Specification attached or contact Karen Woodford on View email address on click.appcast.io.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• HCPC registration
• Leadership Development courses

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum pro rata.