We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers. Job overview Are you looking for your next challenge? Are you interested in furthering your leadership skills in a community setting? Are you looking for a supportive and dynamic team, with protected time for your development, to help you to reach your professional aspirations? Then look no further because we have the role for you. We are looking for a Band 8a Speech & Language therapist who is passionate about community-based care for adults with swallowing and communication disorders to lead our adult community team in Sheffield. You will join and lead a highly experienced and supportive team to provide care for service users in their owns homes and care/residential settings. You will have opportunities to work with colleagues in the acute trust and specialists from other disciplines, social care, and the voluntary sector, with regular access to videofluoroscopy and FEES clinics. We are committed to personal, professional, and service development. We hold regular service improvement and governance meetings, with working parties involving all staff. We have regular supervision and appraisals and encourage self-directed learning. We have regular CPD opportunities and have secured training for the whole team from national and international experts in response to developing clinical needs. Main duties of the job • To provide leadership and clinical speech and language therapy services within the Adult Community SLT team. • To continue to provide highly specialist skills in the assessment and management of communication disorders and dysphagia. • To ensure the adult community team is operating efficiently and effectively to deliver the best care for patients in their own home or care home setting. Working for our organisation • You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives. • Working in the community setting is exciting, rewarding, and meaningful. In line with the national agenda to provide care closer to home. • The SLT service across both the acute and community teams in STH has approximately 66 members of staff (51.94 WTE) • The SLT teams are highly motivated to provide a quality service to their patients, they are research active and embrace innovation. The service has established processes for supervision and supports personal and professional development. When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria • Relevant professional qualification (1st degree level or equivalent). • Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists and Health & Care Professions Council. • Evidence of highly specialised continuing professional development • Post graduate training in dysphagia management. • Evidence of successful completion of post-graduate specialist short-course up to Masters degree level or equivalent. • Evidence of leadership courses / training. Desirable criteria • Evidence of successful completion of management short courses or evidence of management skills obtained through experience Experience Essential criteria • Extensive and in-depth experience of relevant clinical area. • Significant involvement in development and delivery of training packages. • Experience in supervising more junior staff. • Highly specialist knowledge of broad range of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions for relevant client groups and ability to compare and contrast relative benefits. • Ability to negotiate and influence as an equal at consultant level across the multidisciplinary team, with key stakeholders in the service area and other agencies. • Highly specialist knowledge of current diagnostic and management issues across the multi-disciplinary team related to the specialist area Desirable criteria • Significant experience of post-graduate teaching in specialist area. • Evidence of published research in peer review journals. • Theoretical and practical competencies to carry out Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluations of Swallowing (FEES) • Theoretical and practical competencies to carry out VFS, ideally MBSimP certified • Ability to lead in an inter-professional/inter-agency context/environment to the benefit of client groups. • Ability to use/ interrogate electronic patient systems such as SystmOne Special Skills/Aptitude Essential criteria • Excellent auditory and perceptual skills. • Competent in use of IT for everyday communication and presentation packages. • Excellent organisational skills. • Evidence of ability to manage highly specialist and complex caseload independently. Desirable criteria • Enhanced skills in Microsoft office packages including excel for data analysis, sharepoint, one drive etc. Other Factors Essential criteria • Extensive portfolio and evidence of CPD with identifiable outcomes. • Driving Licence valid for the UK with a car or access to an alternative means of transport