Interim Professional Lead for Speech and Language Therapy & Dietetics

The post holder is responsible for ensuring that HPFT's Speech and Language Therapy and Dietetic Services within the Learning Disability and Forensic Business Unit are well managed and effectively delivered in line with best practice and professional standards., The main duties of the job are:

• To be a professional leader and a role model for the provision of Speech and Language and Dietetic Services including active involvement in multidisciplinary research and service developments


• Undertake a cross site Professional Lead role and be a source of highly specialist knowledge and clinical expertise, in order to lead the SLT and Dietetic staff.


• To plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the SLT and Dietetic Services for people with complex health conditions and a Learning Disability


• To lead in monitoring, reviewing and auditing the provision of the Learning Disability SLT & Dietetic provision


• To identify areas of strategic development for Learning Disability SLT and Dietetic in discussion with Team Managers and the Service Line Leads for Learning Disability Services


• To manage a clinical caseload across sites for people with complex health presentation and a Learning Disability


• To ensure robust and high quality supervision, mentorship and training is occurring within services


• To work with other AHP Professional Leads to develop and review, processes and systems to support high quality practice for adults with a Learning Disability, The post holder will provide professional leadership to SLTs and Dietitians working in Learning Disability Services and carry out some complex clinical work within these services


The post holder will:

• Have expertise in the provision of Speech and Language Therapy and Dietetics for people accessing Learning Disability health services


• Provide clinical and professional leadership to SLTs and Dietitians within Learning Disability and Forensic services


• Lead service innovation for SLT and Dietetics within Learning Disability services and across the Trust


• Ensures service delivery meets national and local guidance


• Work in partnership with service managers to ensure SLTs and Dietitians deliver high quality services effectively and efficiently
  
  Degree in Speech and Language Therapy


• Recognised Management/Leadership qualification relevant to the NHS


• Membership of professional bodies - HCPC and RSCLT


• Evidence of membership of Special Interest Clinical Group


• Evidence of Post Graduate qualification relevant to Specialist Clinical area, Experience in a variety of settings within SLT - Including at Band 7 level within Specialist Clinical Area


• Experience of Service Evaluation through audit, research and use of outcome measures


• Experience of service development initiatives including the writing of business cases and clinical pathways of care for best practice


• Experience of working across organisational boundaries


• Experience of team management including experience in recruitment, appraisal and managing sickness, capability and disciplinary matters


• Experience in managing and giving clinical support to junior staff and providing student supervision and education


• Experience working in a multidisciplinary setting and good understanding of the roles of professionals within the team


• In depth knowledge of a broad range of assessment and treatment tools relevant to people with a learning disability and complex health


• Experience leading change management


Desirable criteria


• Experience in research and audit, Excellent communication skills, written and oral


• Ability to work collaboratively with in multidisciplinary setting


• High level teaching skills


• Influencing and negotiation skills


• Ability to communicate sensitive and complex information and overcome barriers to understanding


• Understanding of team dynamics


• Leadership skills to influence change and development, High level clinical analytical skills in postural management, respiratory and complex health for people with a learning disability


• Excellent analytical and reflective skills to problem solve and develop own performance and that of others


• Ability to analyse service outcomes and implement strategies for development and change


• Ability to analyse and identify wider organisational strategies and apply these to specific clinical area, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.


Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional