Speech and Language Therapy Family Service Manager

Can you demonstrate our values of Trust, Respect, Integrity and Compassion? Do you share in our ambition to create high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all? An exciting opportunity has arisen within FYPCLDA Directorate for a Family Service Manager working in Group 2, specifically the Childrens Speech and Language Therapy team as Band 8A in a full time role. We are looking for a highly motivated, compassionate and skilled leader who can bring excellent team working, energy for transformation and delivery of the service to Children and Families across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The service delivers evidence-based interventions for children and young people with a range of speech, language, communication, eating and drinking needs across community and acute settings., As a Family Service Manager you will:

• Jointly lead a service comprising speech and language therapists, therapy support workers and apprentices. Alongside another Family Service Manager colleague and Service Clinical Lead.
• Be highly motivated and responsible for ensuring robust local accountability for performance, quality, safety and finance across the teams.
• Have excellent partnership, networking and communication skills, with operational management experience and strong collective leadership skills that can motivate individuals and teams to help to build and sustain change.
• Work well in partnership with members of the wider leadership team and stakeholders, providing operational management and leadership for Clinical Team Leaders and Specialists., with our flexible working policy. For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy). All jobs will require permission to work in the UK. For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started. Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential cri
  
  We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line