Speech & Language Therapist

**Speech & Language Therapist**:
**Banding**: Band 5/6 (£31,000 - £46,100 DOE)

**Hours**: 35

**Contract duration**: Permanent

**Base**: Scottish Centre for Children with Motor Impairments

**Closing date**:18th September 2023

**Key Benefits**:55 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time), free, onsite parking & eligible to join or continue in the NHS Scotland Pension Scheme

**How to Apply**:
**Interview Details**:
Interviews will be held the week commencing 2nd October 2023 which will involve a 45-minute competency-based interview at the Centre, which will include a short 7-minute presentation.

**General Practice Responsibilities**:

- Responsibility for the provision of high-quality and impactful speech and language therapy input for children and young people accessing the full range of services offered at the centre.
- Work as an autonomous practitioner taking full responsibility for a complex caseload**:

- Accountable for standards of care and deliver these within the context of clinical governance to ensure the highest standards of clinical intervention.
- Comply with the HCPC Speech and Language Therapy Standards of Proficiency and the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and all other documents which support and maintain standards of professional practice.
- Collaborate with parents and professional colleagues (internally and externally) to identify overarching outcomes to meet the holistic needs of the child. Thereafter, outline the steps required to enable progress based on the GIRFEC approach.
- Contribute to and lead on the development of creative and ambitious activities that will address therapeutic, learning and holistic needs of children in the most efficient, effective, high quality and value added way possible.
- Plan effective programmes of work collaboratively taking a person-led, person-centred outcomes focused approach to support improved holistic wellbeing.
- Participate fully in the development of the Centre and associated activities to maintain our status as a National Centre of Excellence.
- Develop, expand and enhance professional skills to ensure the delivery of the Centre’s services reflect contemporary research and current practice.
- Seek out training, development and where appropriate external mentoring supervision and learning opportunities to support development of professional practice to support Centre priorities.
- Undertake appropriate professional staff development to maintain membership and registration with professional and statutory organisations. Participate in the SCCMI appraisal, performance and staff development systems.

**Responsibility to children and young people**:

- Support children to achieve the best holistic wellbeing possible.
- Encourage and enable children and young people to develop their full potential by having high ambitions for them.
- Contribute to and lead on, where appropriate, holistic Child’s Plans’ needs assessment, planning, delivery and review.
- Be cognisant of each child’s holistic needs, home/ community environment and resources available to address needs.
- Where possible take a child and family led approach to addressing wellbeing needs.
- Support a child centred multi-disciplinary approach to addressing adversity and vulnerabilities by promoting resilience and protective factors for each child.
- Undertake initial and ongoing assessments of children/young people, using standardised and non-standardised assessments and outcome measures tools related to e.g. communication, language, speech, fluency and eating and drinking to determine appropriate therapy intervention.
- Assess capacity, gain informed consent, and have the ability to work within a legal framework with children who lack capacity to consent.
- Monitor, measure and evaluate the child’s progress and the effectiveness of intervention using clinical reasoning skills and modify the programme accordingly.
- Manage own caseload, using evidence based/ informed practice, person-led and person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions both within SCCMI environment and in the child’s community.**:

- Facilitate referral of children to external agencies for appropriate assessment/investigations as required.
- Develop and nurture relationships with external agencies to ensure a robust and flexible AAC communication strategy for children/young people which reflects best contemporary practice.
- Work as a practitioner to establish high level practice quality on both an individual and integrated multi-disciplinary team level, through the use of evidence-based practice.
- Work collaboratively with other therapy and education staff and families to jointly create, deliver and review Child’s Plans ensuring effective multi-professional working.
- Communicate effectively with children, young people and their family/carers to ensure an appropriate understanding of their strengths and needs. Ne