Role Summary
In this role, you'll lead a team while providing highly-specialist assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for children with Autism across various settings. You'll guide and mentor colleagues, providing second opinions and offering clinical advice, ensuring a high standard of practice is maintained across the service. Effective communication will be key, as you'll engage with multi-disciplinary teams, external agencies, and carers, to develop coordinated care plans and improve multi-agency pathways within the Balanced System. You will be accountable for patient care, using advanced clinical reasoning to manage a complex caseload and deliver evidence-based interventions. Leadership skills are essential as you'll be responsible for managing a small team, overseeing appraisals, supervising staff, and leading service development projects. You'll also be involved in policy and service development, driving continuous improvement while ensuring that the team adheres to the Trust's standards and objectives. The ability to manage clinical risk, handle sensitive issues, and demonstrate a proactive approach to teaching and training will be critical to your success in this role. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced practitioner to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the development of a forward-thinking, innovative service.
Lead the way in providing specialist Speech and Language Therapy for Autism, shaping the future of communication support for children. As the clinical lead for Autism within the Children's Speech and Language Therapy team, you'll use your expertise to offer highly-specialist assessment, diagnosis, and treatment across various settings, including homes and schools. You'll also provide second opinions and guidance to fellow SALT colleagues, ensuring the highest standards of care are maintained. This role presents a fantastic opportunity to mentor and line‑manage a small team, influence service development, and collaborate with health, education, and social care partners to deliver exceptional, holistic care. If you're an experienced, dedicated practitioner with a passion for leadership and Autism, this is your chance to make a lasting impact. Join a team driven by innovation, support, and positive change, we hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Why Join Us
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. We rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce. Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four 'specialist' hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a 'specialist' hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Valuing Diversity and Equality
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting and championing a culture of diversity, fairness and equality for all applicants and employees. Applications are welcomed from all backgrounds and we strive to reflect the community we serve in our diverse workforce. Our "two tick" kite mark guarantees a candidate with a disability, who fulfills the essential criteria, an interview at the Trust. We can make reasonable adjustments, and offer support and advice in a variety of ways on request.
Benefits
* Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
* NHS pension scheme membership
* Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
* NHS Staff discounts
* Cycle to work scheme
* Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
* Stockport Credit Union – for local financial advice
Application Information
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods. In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with "Our values-based behaviours" (see additional documentation). We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Details and Conditions
This role is for 22.5 hours per week. Please see the attached job description and specification for full information. The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust's policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately. If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary. In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
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