Clinical Lead for Children’s Speech and Language Therapy

at  Northamptonshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

As a result of the ‘Balanced System Project’ which established the speech, language, and communication needs of children in our county, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a B8a Clinical Lead to join our team.
The post holder will take a lead role in the development, transformation and reorganisation of the Children’s Speech and Language team to meet the SLCN needs of children and young people (C&YP) in Northamptonshire.
The main focus of the role will be to lead with the service transformation which will include reducing new referral waiting times in line with the 18-week Referral to Treatment Time (RTT), reduce internal secondary waiting lists and the timely completion of EHC needs assessments and reports.
Improve and develop the agreed service model and developing clinical structure
Assist with the continual modernisation and redesign of the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy, in line with National and Local initiatives, leading on the service transformation and agreed projects
Develop robust interagency relationships with key agencies supporting the development of integrated care pathways
To lead on service transformation and development
To develop co production working closely parents and families and the Children’s participation team ensuring that service users and carers are included in all the work carried out by the Children’s Speech and Language team
Understand the SEND agenda and ensure EHC needs assessments and reports are completed within the statutory timeframe
Review, develop and implement service specific pathways
Develop and work with other clinical leads across the trust to implement integrated and seamless pathways of care for patients across all NHFT services and partner organisations
Provide Clinical Supervision
Facilitate clinical quality for the Speech and Language Team
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools. We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the ‘About You’ Section of the document

Please refer the Job description for details