Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust

An opportunity for a suitably qualified, registered and experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join the forward thinking and friendly Burnley and Pendle Children’s Therapy Team.

We are one of 3 Children’s Therapy teams working across the Pennine area in Lancashire and are committed to improving the communication skills of children and young people, while supporting carers and other professionals to increase their ability to understand and support children with communication needs. The Locality Team in Burnley and Pendle consists of SLTs and OTs working together.

You must be enthusiastic and motivated and have extensive experience of managing a diverse caseload of children with speech, language and communication needs. Competency or an interest in managing eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties is desirable.

We work closely with families and colleagues in health, education and social care and you must have excellent communication skills to support these relationships. You will manage your own time and caseload and also support assistant practitioners in managing a delegated caseload. We are committed to promoting professional development in all staff and you should be enthusiastic about developing your leadership skills in service innovation, supervision and line management of junior therapists and assistants. Demonstrating a proactive approach to your own clinical and professional development and having an understanding of evidence-based practice is important.

Key Responsibilities:

1. To work as part of children’s integrated therapy team providing a speech & language therapy service for children referred for assessment and intervention.
2. To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
3. To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
4. To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence-based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.
5. To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector organizations, and parents/carers.
6. To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
7. To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
8. To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
9. To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025.