Speech and Language Therapist
6 months ago
We are recruiting an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist
With a strong ethos of clinical support and supervision, our dynamic, award-winning team provides evidence-based advice, training and interventions to children and young people.
The post holder will be responsible for the independent management of a clinical caseload of children in community clinics and mainstream schools in and around Cambridgeshire; working independently with access to more senior colleagues as needed. The client group is children who have a range of difficulties in understanding and/or using speech and language.
**If you join our team, you will**:
Receive high quality support and supervision from your mentor, your locality coordinator and your area lead, as well as from clinical specialists, wider team members and other newly qualified therapists who have recently joined the team. We have a clearly structured support package for new starters, but also recognise that we cannot always plan when support will be needed and so we ensure that team members are available to provide support whenever needed
Provide direct therapy to children who need it, when they need it
Work with children with a range of needs (including speech sounds, stammering, deafness, AAC) with a person-centred approach to supervision, meaning that clinical specialists are available to support you depending on your own confidence and experience
Access in-house training which aims to meet your needs and interests
Receive the NHS annual leave entitlement which can be taken flexibly at any time in the year
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There’s one reason why our services are outstanding - and that’s our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
Main
**Responsibilities**:
To independently manage a caseload of pre-school and school age children who have speech, language and communication difficulties
To undertake a range of assessments, both standardised and non-standardised, taking account of medical, social and educational factors, in order to make a differential diagnosis
To plan, deliver and evaluate intervention following professional guidelines and agreed service standards
As part of that process, to be able to plan appropriate long term and short-term goals working towards discharge
To undertake administrative duties connected with the caseload including maintenance of case notes and provision of written reports, following service standards
To ensure that all work is carried out in close collaboration with all those involved in children’s care so that the approach to intervention and support is co-ordinated and comprehensive
To identify when there is a need for a second opinion, referring to senior colleagues or SLT specialists as appropriate
To make onward referral as appropriate
To identify any variations to service delivery or demands and inform the Locality Co-ordinator and Area & Clinical Lead of the likely impact on the service
Policy & Service Development
To contribute towards policy, clinical governance and service development through discussion and involvement in projects as appropriate
To be familiar with local and national standards and to work in line with these
To ensure that parents/carers are aware of the standards they should expect from the speech and language therapy service
Communication
To ensure effective communication of complex condition-related information to parents/carers regarding the assessment process, assessment findings and planned intervention, including engagement of parents/carers in intervention
To ensure children are involved in goal setting and decision making around their own care as appropriate to their age, developmental level and language skills
To ensure parents/carers are involved in decision making around their child’s care including discharge from the service
To liaise effectively and work in partnership with other professionals (particularly teachers and teaching assistants), including the development of shared goals for intervention
To write reports on children, in line with service standards, including contributions to statutory assessment
To offer advice to others concerning support for individual children
To actively contribute to case conferences/ review meetings for children on the caseload
To recognise how and when information may be shared within the bounds of confidentiality and the Data Protection Act
To attend SLT team meetings, actively contributing as appropriate
Contribute to CCS’ internal communication strategies ensuring effective two-way communication and engagement within the organisation
Contribute to CCS’ external communication strategies working with the Head of Communic
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