Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service Team Lead

Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit to a Speech and Language Therapy Team Lead post for our well established children’s speech and language therapy team. The speech and language therapy team is part of an integrated children’s therapy service and provides services across Hull and East Riding. This post will suit an experienced speech and language therapist who wishes to combine a clinical role with an opportunity to develop leadership and managerial skills. A Principal Therapist for the Children’s Speech and Language Therapy service is in post and will be available to provide support for applicants who may be new to management roles. Opportunities to attend relevant leadership/management training will be available.Potential applicants are encouraged to contact Helen Hanson, Children’s Speech and Language Therapy Service Team Lead, current post holder, for further information.Why work for usHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust provides a broad range of community and inpatient mental health services, community services (including therapies), learning disability services, healthy lifestyle support and addiction services to approximately 600,000 people. The Trust has been rated Good by the Care Quality Commission. The Trust is also proud to be HSJ Award winners of Provider of the Year 2019.We employ approximately 2,800 staff across more than 79 sites at locations throughout Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire, Whitby and Scarborough. We deliver Mental Health Services, Specialist Services for Children, Forensic Services, Community and Learning Disability Services, as well as having eight GP Practices across the locality.Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust - a multi-specialty health and social care teaching provider. We aim to be a leading provider of integrated health services, recognised for the care compassion and commitment of our staff and known as a great employer and a valued partner.The Trust works closely with our academic partners, including Hull York Medical School (HYMS) and Hull University, nurturing and developing a workforce of doctors, nurses and other health and social care professionals of the future.At Humber we believe our people are our greatest asset and therefore we are committed to developing, growing and rewarding our workforce. As an employee at Humber you will benefit from pay in line with Agenda for Change, NHS pension, training and development, annual appraisal, generous annual leave entitlement and flexible working options to enable you to achieve a healthy work/life balance.LocationHumber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust serves the rural populations of Hull, the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire. Within North Yorkshire, Scarborough, Ryedale and Whitby areas boast a wide array of diverse property from coastal cottages to riverside apartments, with access to excellent schools and further and higher education providers. There is beautiful scenery across the locality, including picturesque seaside towns, Market towns, woodland areas, moorland and world heritage sites including castles, and Abbeys. Local events include food festivals, Gothic weekends, Victorian weekends, cycling events, Armed Forces and Lifeboat weekends.The region has transport connections with train services from Scarborough and Malton to York, Leeds, and London, and from Whitby to Teeside, and easily commutable for driving, for example York to Whitby within an hour’s drive.For further details / informal visits contact:NameHelen HansonJob titleSpeech and Language Therapist- Service team leadEmail