Band 8a Speech and Language Clinical Lead

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join the Adult Speech and Language Service in Gateshead. We are looking for someone with excellent clinical and interpersonal skills who will work within Gateshead, providing clinical leadership to the Adult SLT team, which includes qualified, non-qualified and administration staff. The role involves accountability and responsibility for the delivery of all aspects of clinical care within the service. The service provides care throughout the community, and also to inpatients within the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. Alongside the leadership role, the successful applicant will also provide clinical care to patients in a variety of settings.,

• To line manage the Adult SLT staff and SLT administrative team including: Recruitment, Appraisal, Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Electronic Staff Record (ESR), Health Roster, Absence management, Authorisation of leave, Travel expenses and Staff performance.
• To support theClinical Operations Manager (Children's Community Services & Adult Community Wrap Around Services) in continuous service improvements and the delivery of transformational projects within areas of accountability.
• To share highly specialist clinical experience across all areas of the Adult SLT service, leading clinically across specialist and complex areas.
• To provide strong clinical leadership ensuring that all clinical pathways within the Adult SLT service are safe, effective, evidence based and responsive to the changing needs of service users.
• Embody the Trust values of Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement (ICORE) and lead by action to inspire others within the team.
  
  Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients. We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region. Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement. We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks. The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.