Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

We have exciting new positions for two permanent Band 6 Children's Speech and Language Therapists to join our friendly, innovative Complex Needs team in Oldham.Working as part of an integrated team, you will expand your skillset, experience working with children with a range of complex needs across preschool settings and special schools and make a big difference to our children, young people and families. You will mostly work with children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder but also with other complex presentations. You will have the opportunity to work with a multilingual population alongside interpreters and bilingual co-workers and work with families, schools, preschools and professionals providing high-quality care for children and families.We are looking for an excellent communicator who is motivated and enthusiastic with highly developed clinical skills and a passion for delivering high quality care at the heart of the community.We offer excellent training opportunities and robust supervision and support for staff to progress in their clinical specialism. We have a detailed induction programme and as part of the NCA Staff Wellbeing initiative., You will:

• Enthusiastically provide a speech and language service to children across Oldham
• Assess, diagnose, develop, and implement speech and language therapy packages of care.
• Work in a multi-disciplinary team to ensure a co-ordinated care plan, based on best practice/evidence.
• Organise and manage a caseload with support from your manager, with opportunities to shadow colleagues and attend specific pathway meetings.
• Work with children and young people with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs including ASC, SEMH and other complex presentations
• Demonstrate clinical effectiveness using evidence-based practice and outcome measures.
• Provideclinical advice to parents/carers, school staff and other professionals regarding the management and care of children with communication difficulties.
• Work alongside education, local authority and early years partners, supporting a graduated approach to helping children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND).
• Build skills in the wider workforce which will have positive intervention outcomes.
  
  You must hold a relevant undergraduate or masters degree in Speech & Language Therapy and be registered to practice with HCPC.We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us, therefore are happy to consider part time hours or flexible working requests.
  
  The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core valuescare,appreciateandinspire - to join our team. In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.