Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who wishes to develop their skills working within Early Years in a small and supportive team. We are looking for a self- motivated, friendly and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our established Children’s Therapy Team in North Lincolnshire.

Your job will be to provide Speech and Language support and input to children within Early Years arena including children with a diverse range of communication difficulties. You will work closely with the established team, Early Years Education providers and Local Authority colleagues. You will also support the team lead in new service development activities.

• Provide high quality Paediatric Speech and language Therapy assessment and interventions and support for a wide range of less and more complex conditions to provide evidence based and timely support reducing the risk of harm and improving outcomes.
• Responsible for managing own caseload and a defined area of the service, working without direct supervision.
• Responsible for leading delegated service improvement and quality initiatives to drive forward improvement for CYP in our area.
• Supervision, support and training for junior staff and other professionals to ensure a highly skilled, supported workforce.
• Delivery and development of Training for settings, practitioners and carers.
• Provision of Specialist written and verbal advice including statutory duties

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Katherine Hughes Job title: Team Lead for Speech and Language Therapy Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 01724 203755

Sarah Howard, [email protected]