Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our expanding Greater Preston based team.
We work with children and young people aged 0- 19 with well developed and evidenced based pathways covering the needs of children with communication needs. We can offer clinical and management supervision, specialist support by experienced senior staff, continuing professional development and specialist speech and language therapy forums.The Children’s Therapy Service has a strong network of clinical leads and a professional lead for Children’s speech and language therapy.
The team comprises of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists. We work closely with colleagues in health, education and social care to provide a genuinely child-centred service. We work in a variety of locations, including clinics, nurseries, mainstream schools, special schools, children’s homes and children’s centres providing Early Years support.
The successful candidate must be able to effectively manage their own time and demonstrate excellent communication skills. An interest in working with children and their families is essential
To work as part of children’s integrated therapy team providing a speech & language therapy service for children referred for assessment and intervention.
To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
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.
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.
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.
To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
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.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
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.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 18 Mar 2025