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LGBT Foundation is an impactful, vibrant charity with a wide portfolio of well-established services and rapidly developing new initiatives aimed at meeting the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people.
Indigo is Greater Manchester’s NHS trans healthcare service. We are a regional and person-centred service, which is primary care led. We enable trans, non-binary and gender variant people to reach their full potential by gender-affirming care. Indigo is delivered as a joint venture between LGBT Foundation and gtd healthcare.
Trans is an umbrella & inclusive term used to describe people whose gender identity differs in some way from that which they were assigned at birth; including non-binary people, cross dressers and those who partially or incompletely identify with their sex assigned at birth.
The post holder will provide a Speech and Language Therapy service (also known as Voice & Communication) for trans and non-binary people at Indigo. They will also work as the Team Lead for the Voice and Communication Therapy team, managing and developing the service.
As this role focuses on working for a service specifically designed by and for trans and non-binary communities, we believe lived experience of being trans and/or non-binary and having experienced NHS gender transition services will be hugely valuable to the role.
Our values and behaviours are an important part of who we are; we feel it is essential to get the right people to work with us, so these values need to be as important to you as they are to us.
We are taking positive action to encourage applications from people of colour (PoC) and other racially minoritised communities, trans*, non-binary, and/or older people (aged 50+), to improve the representation of colleagues from these communities in our staff team.
Indigo Statements of Principle
* Trans people are the experts of their own experience – our services are trans led, with trans and non-binary people guiding and feeding into them at all levels.
* Support is person centred – we recognise that there are as many ways to be trans and non-binary as there are trans and non-binary people in the world and we tailor our support to meet each person’s individual needs.
* Care is safe and affirmative – we support trans and non-binary people to be well informed about their choices by sharing knowledge, explaining options, promoting health, and trusting people to make decisions that are right for them.
* Knowledge is power – we share our knowledge and best practice with other services, showing leadership and empowering them to better meet the needs of trans communities.
* Care is delivered locally – trans and non-binary people are supported to access the full range of assets in their local communities and to maximise their wellbeing.
* We take a multidisciplinary approach to care – we bring together knowledge and expertise from different fields and backgrounds to ensure our service delivers the highest quality care to trans communities.
Role Accountabilities
* Supervision and Line Management of the Band 5/6 Speech and Language Therapist within the service.
* Provide clinical supervision to the Band 5/6 therapist in the service, to discuss complex cases and be a point of clinical escalation. Provide line management, support and regular check-ins with the band 5/6. Oversee allocation of clinical activities and line management.
* Service Delivery, including interventions with service users.
* In collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, the post holder will assess, treat and manage their own caseload as well as providing clinical support to others on speech and language therapy issues.
* Independently manage a complex caseload, with appropriate supervision. The post holder will employ evidence-based practice (EBP), promoting this approach to all staff, volunteers and students.
* Reporting and Monitoring of Data.
* Collect and monitor data and produce reports for Head of Operations, Business Manager and Commissioners regarding the Voice and Communication Therapy service within Indigo.
* Service Development and Planning.
* Contribute to the development, implementation, monitoring and adjustment of care pathways in collaboration with the Senior Leadership Team.
* Be responsible for creating, improving and implementing any standard operating procedures (SOPs) and Voice and Communication Therapy-specific policies. Plan service delivery and work on improvements to balance clinical excellence and the demands of a busy service, such as efficient waiting list management.
KEY INFORMATION
Special Terms: Full-Time – 35 Hours per week
Permanent
Hybrid working (ideally one day in our office in Manchester)
Salary: NHS Band 7 (Open to Band 6) + 10% pension
Accountable to: Indigo Head of Operations
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