MIDDLESBROUGH PRIMARY CARE TRUST

SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY SERVICE

 

POST                   SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST

                              CHILDREN’S SERVICE

 

GRADE                WHITLEY BAND 1 POINTS 20 – 22

                              (Agenda for Change Band agreement pending)

 

SALARY               £18,197 - £19,684  (per annum)

                              (Agenda for Change salary scale pending)

 

HOURS                FULL-TIME – 37.5 HOURS PER WEEK

 

 The Speech & Language Therapy service in Middlesbrough is growing

and expanding, and we are now able to offer this exciting opportunity

for a newly qualified SLT  who  wishes to develop specialist skills

in paediatrics across both the mainstream and special needs

departments.

 

The post will be based with the mainstream children’s service

and will be supported by the special needs team. The postholder will

work with children referred into the mainstream paediatrics

department:

these referrals may include some children with special needs.

Detailed assessment protocols and established care pathways are in

place, and assessment and therapy will be a regular part of the post

duties.

 

 Attendance at  training courses is encouraged and

supported, and the SLT will have mentorship, alongside supervision

from senior specialist SLTs. Clinical supervision, evidence based

practice and peer support are all high priorities within the service.

 

The SLT service in Middlesbrough has around 50 staff at all

grades, and benefits from excellent administrative and assistant

support. The service provides clinical input to children with a range

of communication difficulties, and has specialists in autism,

paediatric dysphagia, fluency, hearing impairment, cleft palate,

physical disabilities, specific speech impairment and specific

language impairment. In addition to this the service covers children

and adults with learning disabilities, including provision to clients

in a forensic service.

           

 The Middlesbrough SLT service also covers 9 Sure Start 

programmes, and is currently involved in a very exciting

reorganisation which aims to integrate the mainstream paediatric

service, the Sure Start team and the special needs team into a

locality based children’s  service.

   

Please contact Alison Smithies, Clinical Coordinator SLT, on

Tel. No. (01642) 246603 for an informal chat or to arrange a visit.

 

On-line application forms from www.middlesbroughpct.co.uk

 

Closing date February 28th 2005

 

Download original advert:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sltnorth/ads/ad-mbro-04-nqt.doc

 

Find out more about Middlesbrough PCT SLT Service and the local area:

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/sltnorth/sltservices/mbro_pct_slt.html