Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
5 months ago
Are you an experienced qualified Speech & Language Therapist wanting a change and a new challenge?
Interested in developing work around early intervention for children?
Want to take part in a new, government funded project, Family Hubs?
Keen to join a Trust rated outstanding by the CQC?
Then please read on as we need you
The team provide an early intervention approach across Central Bedfordshire supporting early identification for children with speech language and communication difficulties and their families. This is a rare opportunity to join our Early Communication Support Team (pre-referral/early intervention team) in Bedford Borough.
**You will be**:
- Qualified with broad experience to bring to the table, desirable experience is 0-5’s
- Able to develop new ideas around early intervention, health promotion and training and be listened to.
- Someone who can prioritise and able to handle a diverse range of duties
- Innovative to strive to develop new projects/ways of working and improve outcomes for our youngest children
- Confident in working and building relationships with a range of multidisciplinary colleagues.
**We offer**:
- Opportunities to continue training and further qualifications
- Working with a team who want to make a difference
- Flexible working
- opportunity for both remote and face to face working
- Great benefits inc access to a range of employee services
We look forward to working with you
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.
**Job Purpose**:
The post holder will be an experienced Therapist and will work with the Early Communication Support Team within the field of preventative practice and early identification. They will support the delivery of SLT into Family Hubs and Children’s Centres in Bedford Borough. They will have day to day responsibility for promoting speech and language activities across Bedford and in designated Family Hub venues and/or for a caseload of pre-school children and their families in community settings/groups and home visits.
Main
**Responsibilities**:
To manage and prioritise a defined caseload and work with an appropriate degree of autonomy and independence, with regular support/supervision, with children and their families accessing Family Hubs.
To promote early identification, appropriate treatment/discharge/referral on, of children with speech and language difficulties.
To work in partnership with health and education colleagues to deliver an integrated support pathway for Family Hubs work under the Home Learning Environment and Communication strand.
To deliver and develop Universal key messages around SLCN.
To deliver training to enhance the skills of the wider workforce around Speech, Language and Communication.
To identify training needs, to develop packages/workshops around SLCN to deliver the training independently.
To identify, assess and diagnose communication impairments and select appropriate patients and type of therapy for effective treatment.
To assess, develop and implement speech and language therapy treatment and discharge as appropriate. To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment, and design appropriate treatment based on analysis of profile of need seeking advice as appropriate.
To develop clinical skills and professional knowledge through experience, training and supervision.
Independently take students on placements for clinical teaching and supervision, including exam placement.
Be responsible for the supervision of SLT unqualified staff and volunteers.
Contribute to the support of newly and recently graduated SLT Staff.
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