Speech and Language Therapist - Education Lead

We are delighted to be able to offer this fixed term Band 7 opportunity within our Children and Young Peoples (CYP) Therapies service which has become available due to internal promotion.

Are you looking to extend your leadership skills, as well as continuing to develop your specialist clinical skills? If so, this opportunity could be just right for you. Our Education Lead roles offer the best support for children/young people with SLCN in mainstream education settings and to support the Hertfordshire Professional Promise.

We are currently looking to recruit to a fulltime highly specialist SLT, fixed term for 10 months. The postholder will join our friendly team of therapists, assistants and Education Leads. The post will be based in Hertford, with the postholder predominantly covering the Hertford, Waltham Cross and Bishop Stortford areas.

You will be joining an innovative and agile CYP Therapies service committed to delivering high quality care and transforming lives. Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust provides Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy Services for families across the county. Our service is jointly commissioned by health and education, allowing us to provide a seamless pathway of care from early years through to schools, specialist provisions and further education settings.

• Previous applicants need not apply*

As a mainstream Education Lead your specialist role will involve:

• Partnership working with other leads across the County, developing and shaping the service
• Working collaboratively with mainstream education settings, developing relationships with ‘clusters’ of schools (within Hertfordshire DSPL areas), and developing an understanding of their needs
• Being a point of contact to clusters of schools and providing leadership support to the therapy teams working within these clusters
• Working with therapy teams and settings to provide training and specialist advice and support
• Seeking regular feedback from schools and being responsive/ making changes to service provision that will benefit the wider Hertfordshire system
• Setting up/planning training packages relevant to the schools and providing support to others

There will be opportunities for you to facilitate professional supervision groups and provide Managerial Supervision to less experienced colleagues.

We Offer

• Half termly group supervision and peer support
• Regular managerial supervision and a well-established appraisal system
• CPD opportunities such as bitesize tutorials, peer review
• A 2 week induction period where you will have the opportunity to observe and shadow your team
• Access to a named buddy

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision - Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds and ages

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible - Apply now

You’ve made a great decision to apply to join to HCT - we’re looking forward to taking the next steps of the journey with you.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lyn Humphrey Job title: Operational Manager, CYP Therapies Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 07827883686