Overview
An exciting clinical leadership role in the Hillingdon Adult Speech and Language Therapy service, providing specialist interventions across domiciliary, outpatient and Intermediate Care units.
Responsibilities
* Provide clinical leadership to the team, delivering specialist speech and language therapy interventions.
* Support teams to clinically advance and deliver evidence‑based interventions through direct care, supervision, training and education.
* Work autonomously within professional guidelines, using research skills for audit and service development.
* Collaborate with the Service Manager to develop adult community services, managing staff, caseloads, treatment pathways and performance indicators.
* Lead service transformation in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, co‑producing and supporting pathway evolution.
* Coordinate quality and clinical governance frameworks, ensuring high standards of care.
* Provide leadership support to clinical and non‑clinical workforce, managing organisational performance, embedding Trust values and managing the operating budget.
* Develop and deliver training programmes to multidisciplinary groups and external stakeholders, including GPs.
* Support and encourage reflective practice, identifying learning needs in speech & language therapy and other AHPs.
* Maintain personal development plans and participate in annual appraisals.
* Ensure policies, procedures, clinical governance arrangements are in place and well communicated.
* Operate independently, interpreting national and Trust policies, advising the Clinical Service Manager and Head of Adult Services.
Qualifications
* Qualified and registered Professional with extensive postgraduate experience working with adults, providing patient‑centred care and leading a team.
* Disability‑Confident employer offers interviews to applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the job.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
We are a Disability‑Confident employer and support a diverse workforce. All applicants who declare a disability and meet the minimum criteria for the job will be offered an interview.
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