Speech And Language Therapist

Specialist Speech and Language Therapy

Position:�Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Location:�Meldreth, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border

Salary:��37,669- �44,699depending on skills and experience

Hours:�Full-time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year

Key duties and responsibilities:

� Manage and prioritise a paediatric caseload including communication and dysphagia needs.

� Carry out comprehensive communication, swallowing, eating and drinking assessments.

� Provide advice on suitability and therapy needs of prospective students.

� Provide individual aims for communication and eating and drinking as part of the MDT for Individual Education Plans

� Provide individual programmes for communication, assistive technology, swallowing and feeding.

� Deliver speech and language interventions to individuals, small groups or within the classroom as required.

� Maintain concise clinical recording in accordance with professional guidelines.

� Monitor eating and drinking support practice and provide training as required.

� Promote Total Communication practice across the service.

� Work with staff and family members to ensure consistent, joined up communication support.

� Attend and contribute to reviews, providing written reports where required.

� Make onward referrals for specialist assessment or advice in respect of AAC or dysphagia.

� Provide induction and individualised training as required.

� Supervise and line manage speech and language therapy assistant(s)

� Work within professional boundaries and seek guidance where required.

Qualifications and skills:

� Speech and Language Therapy degree at graduate or masters level

� Certificate to practise Speech and Language Therapy

� Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC

� Post-graduate dysphagia training

� Competencies at Level C of RCSLT Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Competency Framework (EDSCF)

� Requirement to undertake relevant learning, continued professional development and clinical supervision as required by RCSLT and HCPC

� Willingness to maintain clinical links with relevant clinical groups to develop specialist expertise and knowledge relating to the role (such as dysphagia and AAC groups)

Experience:

� Working with children and young people with SEND, PMLD and ASD

� Working with children and young people with complex communication, swallowing and feeding needs

� Working with hi and lo-tech AAC systems

� Delivering provision through EHCP process

� Working in early years, school or college settings

� Working with a dysphagia caseload

� Working within a multi-disciplinary team

Benefits:

� Life assurance

� Pension plan

� Perk Box- offering high street discounts

� Employee assistance programme

� Bike to work scheme

� Car lease scheme