Speech and Language Therapist

3 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Full time

Enhance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment and join an innovative and forward thinking CYP Therapies team.
Based in Greenvale Special Secondary School, (Across both Waters Road and Mayow Road sites) during term time and based at Kaleidoscope CYP Centre Catford during school holidays.
Working alongside another band 7 to lead development of Speech & Language services at Greenvale school , working with children and young people aged 11-19 and their families and school staff offering universal, targeted and specialist services supporting those with communication and eating/drinking difficulties.
Involvement in multidisciplinary teamwork, service development, and training material development.
Opportunity to further develop specialism in Learning Disabilities, Alternative Augmentative Communication, Dysphagia, Autism Spectrum Disorder and more.
Work-Life Balance: Regular supervision and opportunities to work with peers within our diverse Special school team and wider SLT and CYP therapies team.
Professional Growth: Qualifications: Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree, HPC Licence, Dysphagia course completion, willingness for advanced training.
Enthusiastic about working in Special schools and working with young people with learning disabilities and complex needs.

Our people are our greatest asset. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Accountable to Therapies Manager.
To provide highly specialist speech and language therapy for children and young people and participation in multi disciplinary working providing differential diagnosis, assessment, intervention and review of children and young people referred to the Special Schools Pathway.
To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment and participation for the Special Schools pathway providing differential diagnosis, assessment intervention and review of children and young people within a multi-disciplinary context.
To identify, develop, implement and evaluate highly specialist training (formal/informal) in speech, language and communication disorders and eating and drinking difficulties in children and young people for parent/carers, speech and language therapists, paediatricians, teaching staff and a range of professionals, within and external to the Trust taking account of different levels of knowledge and skills of the audience.
To act as an expert witness/advisor providing expert clinical opinion to Lewisham Education SEN Service, attending Special Educational Needs Tribunals, Disagreement Resolution Meetings and other relevant meetings as required ensuring that the childs speech and language therapy needs and the level of resources required to meet these are clarified.
To ensure that the service provided is integrated (within the relevant multi/uni disciplinary care pathways), evidence based and delivered in accordance with care pathways/protocols and responsive to the needs of the local population.
To independently assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties and eating and drinking difficulties some of which may be highly complex and have multiple diagnosis such as Autism Spectrum disorder, Learning disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory difficulties and profound and multiple learning disabilities, and provide second opinions as required.
Qualifications and Training
Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
Competence/willingness to undertake relevant advanced training/post qualification training
Successful completion of highly specialist post graduate study relevant to the field at Master's degree level or equivalent specialist advanced short courses

Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Significant post-qualification experience working with children with a wide range of complex needs and associated speech, language and communication difficulties
Experience of working with children with dysphagia , feeding and drinking needs
Experience of advising/providing second opinions for children with complex speech/language or communication difficulties and eating & drinking difficulties
Experience of developing training materials and delivering training to others
Experience of writing protocols and/or policies
Experience of developing training packages for others

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