Dr Sean Pert
Appointments
Current posts
June 2018 - Present
Expert trainer delivering continuing professional development (CPS) occasional courses to speech and language therapists, returners, students and related professionals. Master classes are available on:
Expert trainer delivering continuing professional development (CPS) occasional courses to speech and language therapists, returners, students and related professionals. Master classes are available on:
- Speech: Assessment and Therapy in Practice
- Speech Transcription Refresher Workshop
- Working with Speech and Language Disorders in a Bilingual Context
- Early Language Therapy - Coming Soon!
October 2014 – Present
Senior Clinical Lecturer (Teaching Focused) Speech and Language Therapy
The University of Manchester
Full-time with secondments to
- Consultant Speech and Language Therapists for The Indigo Gender Service (2 days per week), and
- Chair of the Board of Trustees, The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (1 day per week)
October 2014-October 2017
Part-time post: Two and a half days a week
September 2015 - Present
Additional two and a half days from September 2015 – Senior Lecturer, Clinical Phonetics (Permanent)
Previous Speech and Language Therapy posts
May 2015 – Jul 2015, part-time post, one day a week
Independent Consultant Speech and Language Therapist
Kingsway Park High School, Rochdale, Turf Hill Road, Rochdale, OL164XA
Providing assessment and therapy to young people with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).
January 2005 – October 2014
Principal Speech and Language Therapist managing Children’s SLT
Principal role in combination with roles1,2
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust*
(Now Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust)
Overseeing 12 community clinics and a large, award-winning staff group of SLTs and SLTAs, including a unique Home Language service for bilingual children and their families.
November 2004 – December 2004
Acting Principal Speech and Language Therapist (Community Clinics)
Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust*
February 2004 – October 2014
Clinical co-ordinator of student placements: speech and language therapy1, Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust*
July 2002 – October 2014
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist – Speech and Language Disorders / Bilingualism2, Rochdale Primary Care Trust*
September 1999 – June 2002
Senior Speech and Language Therapist
Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust*
September 1995 – August 1999
Speech and Language Therapist
Rochdale Healthcare NHS Trust*
*Note
I worked for the same NHS organisation from September 1995 – October 2014. These organisations were renamed or taken over during this period and my roles were continued via TUPE arrangements.
Initially, the department was an integrated Children's and Adult's service. Later, Adults' Services and Children and young people's services were split.
I was team lead for the award-wining Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service and later service manager in a job share with Alison Drake.
The service included:
I was team lead for the award-wining Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service and later service manager in a job share with Alison Drake.
The service included:
- Community clinic service
- Special Schools
- Language Unit
- Early Years Team
Clinics covered the townships of Rochdale, Sudden, Heywood, Middleton and Littleborough, with 11 sites overall.
Later, Baillie Street Health Centre was replaced by the Croft Shifa Health Centre (Opened 26th March 2010). Nye Bevan House also provided services on Maclure Road, Rochdale, opposite the train station.
- Baillie Street Health Centre, Penn Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XS
- Kirkholt Clinic, The Strand, Rochdale, OL11 2JG
- Sudden Resource Centre, Silk Street, Rochdale, OL11 3EU
- Ings Lane Clinic, Phoenix street, Rochdale, OL12 7DW
- Milnrow Health Centre, Stonefield Street, Rochdale, OL16 4HZ
- Littleborough Health Centre, Featherstall Road, Littleborough, OL15 8HF
- Langley Clinic, Borrowdale Road, Langley, Middleton, M24 3QG
- Durnford Street Clinic, Middleton, M24 5UD
- Darnhill Clinic, Argyle Parade, Darnhill, Heywood, OL10 3RY
- Taylor Street Clinic, Heywood, OL10 1EF
- Whitworth Clinic, Brennan Crescent, Whitworth, OL12 8BB
Later, Baillie Street Health Centre was replaced by the Croft Shifa Health Centre (Opened 26th March 2010). Nye Bevan House also provided services on Maclure Road, Rochdale, opposite the train station.
This photo shows the staff by the main reception at Baillie Street Health Centre, the now demolished town centre site on Penn Street. Services moved to the Croft Shifa Health Centre.
Roles prior to Speech and Language Therapy
September 1989-1992 (and summers of 1993 and 1994)
Laboratory Technician
Ecology Department, The Clayton Aniline Company / Ciba Clayton, Manchester.
This historic dyestuff factory employed me to ride around the site on an old butcher's bike and collect samples of 'grime' (captured by spraying large filter papers with glycerol) and liquid effluent from the dyestuff manufacturing process. I carried fuming sulphuric acid around in a leaky bottle for the procedure! I also used an automated Carbon Oxygen Demand machine, We also regularly visited the Davyhulme Sewage Works to collect 'activated sludge' to test the biodegradability (Biological Oxygen Demand, or BOD) of the manufacturing effluent. An early insight into the ecological impact of dyestuffs used in fabrics and writable Compact Discs (CD-Rs). I also learnt how to use a PC and program in BASIC, as well as spreadsheets and DisplayWrite 4, an early word processor.
1993-1995(?)
Bar man
The Athenaeum, York Street, Manchester, M2 2AW
Formerly the Paris Bank Building designed by Charles Heathcote (1902) - Edwardian Baroque.
Friday, Saturday and some Sunday evenings.
Briefly an essential part of the pre-club night scene (especially Flesh at the Hacienda), managed by Mike Pollard ("Polly").
I often scooped 'top take' at the bar, which is surprising as we had to add up the orders in our heads!
