Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

3 weeks ago

Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Aurora Meldreth Manor School Full time

**Specialist Speech and Language Therapy - Meldreth Manor**

**Position**: Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

**Location**:Meldreth, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border

**Salary**: £35,360 - £41,954 depending on skills and experience

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

**Background/overview**

Aurora is an innovative provider of education and care for children, young people and adults with special educational needs and disabilities. The post is based at Meldreth Manor School and Meldreth Manor Children’s Home providing education, care and therapeutic support for children aged 6-19 years and includes a dysphagia caseload.

We are looking for an experienced and committed Speech and Language Therapist to join our therapy team. The role involves close working with the wider team including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, nursing and teaching staff. The post-holder will be expected to play a key role in the future development of our expanding service.

**Job role**:
The role is a challenging, but exciting one. It will require you to be versatile in your approach to providing individualised communication and dysphagia support to our specialist population. The post will combine clinical, administrative and supervisory duties. You will work as part of an interdisciplinary team under the supervision of senior leadership but will be expected to autonomously manage your caseload including assessment, direct and indirect therapy programmes and line managing a speech and language therapy assistant.

The post holder will provide speech and language therapy services prioritising needs identified by the assessment process as stated in the Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP).

**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

**Skills and Qualifications**:

- 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

**Knowledge**:

- Person-centred approaches to support
- Legislation relating to consent and restrictive practice within the Mental Capacity Act
- Positive behaviour support planning and interventions
- AAC systems and approaches
- IDDSI, dysphagia interventions and feeding issues relating to this caseload

**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

Be part of our successful team and also benefit from a generous package that includes:

- Life assurance
- Pension plan
- Perk Box
- offering high street discounts
- Employee assistance programme
- Bike to work scheme
- Car lease scheme

**How to Apply**:
The post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and the Aurora Group is therefore permitted to ask job applicants to declare all convictions and cautions (including those which are "spent" unless they are "protected" under the DBS filtering rules) in order to assess their suitability to work with children."

**The Aurora Group is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the children and young adults in our care and is a disability confident and equal opportunities employer**

Please note that you are wholly responsible fo

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