Specialist SLT ALD

We are excited to be offering the opportunity to join Northumbria Healthcare Speech and Language Therapy, Whole Life Complex and Additional Needs Team.
We are looking to recruit an innovative, caring and dynamic SLT who would like to further develop their existing skills in communication and eating/drinking difficulties, in people with learning disability and complex needs.
The post will involve working across the Adult Learning Disability and Paediatric Complex and Additional Needs Teams, working with people with learning disabilities. The successful candidate will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside, working into patient's homes, care settings and special schools., The successful candidate should have knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of communication difficulties and should also have knowledge and skills in supporting families, carers and setting staff to embed communication strategies into their daily practice. They will work with a varied caseload of adults/children/young people; from those who are non-speaking and use a wide range of communication strategies such as objects, signing, AAC to those who use verbal communication skills and have challenges when participating in daily activities.
The successful candidate will be responsible for caseload planning and management, providing peer support and supervision to junior members of the team, planning and supporting care staff and teaching assistants to provide SLT interventions, evaluating the outcomes and impact of their clinical work and contributing to quality improvement projects and clinical audits.
You will be committed to partnership working with other health and social care professionals and education teams and have excellent communication and prioritisation skills. Knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of eating/drinking and swallowing is desirable for the role., The Complex and Additional Needs Speech and Language Therapy team is a small team who are passionate about supporting people with complex needs, their families, their carers' and professionals. We have well established and strong connections with our Health, Adult Social Care and Local Authority colleagues allowing us to work in partnership at all levels. We have regular opportunities for joint CPD and clinical support and supervision with colleagues in the Adult and Community Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy teams.
We can offer you a highly rewarding post which includes:
+ Clinical supervision including support to complete NQP competencies and be part of a bespoke preceptorship programme.
+ Regular team meetings, peer support and supervision, clinical focus groups and the opportunity to attend Regional Clinical Excellence Networks
+ Annual Appraisal
+ In-Service Training.
+ Opportunities to contribute to Trust and Local Authority quality improvement work and innovations
+ Opportunity to be actively involved in the design and implementation of the team annual planning
+ Opportunity to work in partnership with other Health colleagues and Local Authority Services to ensure the highest quality of care
+ Opportunity to work with the Regional Communication Aid Service (RCAS) when coordinating care and engaging in development work
+ Close links with Newcastle University.
+ Close working with Clinical Leads, Consultant and Highly Specialist SLTs in Dysphagia, AAC and Stammering in relation to evidence-based practice, innovation, audit and caseload management
Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on option 2.
Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.
Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
+ Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
+ Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
+ A range of flexible working opportunities
+ Generous annual leave and pension scheme
+ Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
+ Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
+ On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
+ Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country's top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people's homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people's lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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