Clinical Lead Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy

Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site St Micheal's Hospital Town Enfield Salary £59,490 - £66,239 Per Annum inclusive of HCAs Salary period Yearly Closing 01/05/2025 23:59

Clinical Lead Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy

NHS AfC: Band 8a

The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.

The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.

In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.

Job overview

Take the Lead. Make a Difference. Shape the Future of Community SLT.

Are you an experienced Band 7 or 8 Speech and Language Therapist looking for the next big step in your career? Do you want to lead a dynamic team and drive innovation in community-based therapy? If so, this Clinical Lead role could be the perfect opportunity for you!

Why Join Us?

Lead a highly skilled team of SLTs and SLT Assistants.
Work closely with colleagues across North Middlesex University Hospital and the Royal Free London NHS Trust being part of the same organisation.
Have the autonomy to shape services and implement new ways of working.
Receive full support for CPD, leadership training, and career progression.
Be part of a Trust that prioritises staff well-being with services like an Employee Assistance Programme, Occupational Health support, and a Wellbeing Forum.

Main duties of the job

Your Impact

As Clinical Lead, you will:
Oversee the organisation and development of adult community SLT services.
Provide highly specialist advice to the rehabilitation and therapy teams.
Lead clinical governance, service audits, and quality improvement initiatives.
Manage a complex caseload, using advanced clinical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
Work strategically with AHP Leads and senior stakeholders to enhance service delivery.

What We’re Looking For:

Qualified SLT with RCSLT-recognised degree and HCPC registration.
Strong leadership & mentorship experience, including clinical supervision.
Exceptional communication & problem-solving skills in complex cases.
Passion for service development & innovation in community SLT care.

Be Part of Something Bigger

We are an integral part of the North Central London Integrated Care System, working in collaboration with NHS and Local Authority partners. We are proud of our teaching hospital status, supporting the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• On a daily basis to make decisions on allocation of available resources which directly affect level of SLT intervention to specific patients and be able to justify those decisions to patients, carers and others.
• To deal sensitively at an advanced level with patients and carers who have high levels of anxiety as a result of their condition e.g. pain, loss of mobility, poor prognosis, cognitive impairment (e.g. dementia, learning difficulties).
• To support and educate patients and carers in managing complex SLT needs.
• To undertake a comprehensive highly specialist assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies: use highly advanced clinical reasoning skills and assessment techniques to provide an accurate clinical diagnosis of their conditions.
• Formulate and deliver individual SLT treatment programmes based on an extensive knowledge of evidence-based practice and ability to apply a wide range of treatment options. Evaluate patient progress, reassess and modify treatment programmes as required.
• Develop comprehensive management plans in conjunction with other members of the multi-disciplinary team. This includes recommendations based on sound clinical judgment, for referral/transfer to other in or outpatient services for specialist ongoing management. This will include discussion of patient care, patient progress and prognosis and involvement in ongoing management planning.
• To comply with the Child Protection Policy and Enfield Protection of Vulnerable Adults policy where appropriate.
• To monitor that the service delivery is patient goal led and in line with best practice.

People (HR) Management

• Lead on day to day supervision of staff/local induction for the service.
• Teach, assess and contribute to the performance assessment and appraisal of less experienced SLTs, TIs and assistant staff, evaluating competence as appropriate.
• Participate in the staff appraisal scheme both as an appraisee and as an appraiser and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development programmes to meet individual and service objectives.
• Performance manage staff within own service and, where appropriate, dealing with competency issues as required.
• Be responsible for the SLT in-service training programme, including tutorials, individual training sessions, delivering presentations and peer review.
• Attend external training as appropriate and identified in own PDP.
• Lead in recruitment for the service and skill mix reviews as appropriate.
• To take responsibility for operational management of the adult SLT team, allocating and organising the work of all staff both senior and less experienced staff to meet service priorities.

Person specification

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

• RCSLT Recognised Diploma/Degree in SLT
• HCPC Registered.
• Evidence of up to date RCSLT CPD portfolio
• A qualification at Master’s Degree level or equivalent, in a relevant subject relating to this client group

EXPERIENCE AND KNOWLEDGE

• Experience of working with out-patients and community MDT setting
• Experience in clinical supervision
• Experience in working with diverse cultures and with complex clinical problems.

SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Fluent in written and spoken English including the ability to generate letters and reports of a high calibre.
• Highly advanced communication skills including the ability to participate in high level meetings regarding either patient care or clinical strategy.
• Highly advanced clinical reasoning, analytical and problem-solving skills especially in relation to patients with neurological conditions and adult acquired pathology.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Helen Plum Job title Operational Manager Email address h.plum@nhs.net Telephone number 02045535694 Additional information

This post is for 37.5 hours per week and we are happy to discuss flexible or part time working patterns and would welcome you to attend for an informal visit at St Michael’s hospital site, Enfield.