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Paediatric Neonate and dysphagia Speech and Language Therapist
The closing date is 23 June 2025
This is an exciting opportunity for an experience therapist who wishes to expand and develop skills in paediatric dysphagia and neonatal care. Are you self-motivated, friendly and enthusiastic? Come and join our Children's Therapy Team in Northern Lincolnshire.
As part of this role you will co-lead a team of dysphagia trained Speech and Language Therapists and lead our neonatal in-reach provision. Your job clinically will be to provide expert clinical advice/ second opinions, intervention and management for a specialist complex caseload (dysphagia and neonates).
You should have experience working in paediatric dysphagia and neonates, meeting RCSLT competencies. Experience in Team leader responsibilities would be desirable; full supervision will be provided. We are able to offer this post as a stand alone post or in combination with the 0.5 wte Band 7 Neonate vacancy based at Hull Royal Infirmary.
Main duties of the job
* To take the lead in day to day clinical delivery for neonates and joint responsibility for dysphagia caseload.
o To take provide expert clinical specialist management in children's therapy relating to dysphagia and neonates.
o To be responsible for managing their own caseload and the supervision, education and assessment of students, assistants and junior therapists in their area. They will provide specialised advice to other professionals in this specific clinical area.
o To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice.
About us
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust is part of one of the largest acute and community Group 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 Group 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 Group and our community.
Job responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.
Please be aware that all newemployees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
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Post Graduate clinical experience of working with a children and young people with dysphagia and neonates.
Understanding and applying local and national policy relating to patient/client/client group.
Demonstrates clear commitment to a team approach; exchanging ideas, supporting and working with others.
Ability to work under pressure and work to deadlines.
Motivated and enthusiastic.
Flexible and innovative
Negotiation and problem solving skills
Good personal organisational skills
Willingness to work flexibly
Able to cope with change and proactively engage with this
Excellent personal organizational skills
Have excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy
The applicant will need to have access to transport and the ability to safely transport yourself and equipment around the required geographical area during the course of their working day
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy
* HCPC registered
* Post graduate qualification in paediatric dysphagia
* Neonatal qualifications at post graduate level
* Member of relevant CEN
Experience
* oDemonstrates compliance with RCSLT neonate and dysphagia competencies (Specialist)
* oPost Graduate clinical experience of working with a children and young people with dysphagia at post graduate level
* oClinical experience as an autonomous practitioner for management of Paediatric Neonate and dysphagia caseloads
* Knowledge of and experience of use of specialist assessments
* oEvolving or established skills in videofluoroscopy (VFS) in order to support the service for the acute paediatric/neonatal population
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
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