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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

2 months ago


Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Solent NHS Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our team at Solent NHS Trust. As a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, you will play a key role in shaping and developing a highly specialist speech and language therapy role within our Youth Justice team.

Key Responsibilities
  • Provide specialist knowledge and expertise to support children and young people with speech and language needs within the Youth Justice system.
  • Develop and deliver training packages to staff in the Justice sector and Speech and Language Therapy service as required.
  • Support and develop skills in others to work with children and young people with speech and language needs in the context of the Justice system.
  • Develop a care pathway and procedures within the Youth Justice team and Solent NHS SLT Service to support children and young people with speech and language needs.
  • Devise, implement, and analyze outcome measures to monitor the impact of the role within the Youth Justice team.
  • Work as an autonomous practitioner, in collaboration with health, education, and justice sector staff, to deliver integrated specialized packages of care to children and young people with speech and language needs.
  • Provide specialist clinical advice and recommendations to justice sector staff working with children and young people with speech and language needs.
About Us

Solent NHS Trust is a leading provider of healthcare services in the region, and we are committed to delivering high-quality care that is safe, simple, and easy to access. We are proud to be an organization that values our people and is focused on making a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Our Values
  • Honesty
  • Everyone counts
  • Accountable
  • Respectful
  • Teamwork
Person Specification

Qualifications:

  • Recognized Speech and Language Therapy degree level qualification or equivalent
  • Registered member of the Health and Care Professions Council
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
  • Licence to Practice
  • Evidence of maintenance of CPD in area of specialism
  • Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups

Experience:

  • Experience in paediatric therapy, experience working independently with children from clinical pathway
  • Experience of working with a broad range of paediatric clinical impairments and disorders using a range of assessment methods as appropriate
  • Experience assessing and working with young people aged 12 to 19 years with SLCN
  • Experience of clinical supervision of students and others- auditing own and others' clinical practice, in order to act on the findings
  • Experience of developing and delivering training
  • Experience of staff supervision

Additional Criteria:

  • Able to critically assess and address own learning needs and follow a personal development plan across the four pillars of advanced clinical practice
  • Support a wider team to build capacity and capability through work-based and inter-professional learning, while facilitating peer review processes to identify individual and team learning
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal- supporting people in making decisions, planning care or seeking to make positive changes in a person-centred way
  • Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities working in partnership with individuals, families, carers
  • Excellent interpersonal skills -- including observation, listening and empathy skills. Engage with, appraise and respond to individuals' motivations, development stage and capacity and empower them to participate in decisions about their care, health and wellbeing
  • Highly developed non-verbal communication skills
  • Highly developed analytical and interpretive skills to deal with a range of individual presentations and complex situations using information from multiple sources
  • Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills
  • Ability to transcribe speech phonetically
  • Proficient in using a number of alternative and augmentative communication systems Makaton, symbols and signs, and PECS
  • Ability to reflect on practice both individually and with peers/mentors to participate in multi-disciplinary service and team evaluation. As a result, demonstrate the impact of advanced clinical practice on service function, effectiveness and quality
  • Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
  • Prioritisation skills
  • Good supervision skills
  • Ability to lead new practice and offer service redesign solutions in an inter-professional/interagency context/environment to the benefit of client groups- working collaboratively with a range of resources and acting as a clinical role model to deliver care which is responsive to changing needs of agencies, networks and local populations
  • Ability to work independently without support and to pro-actively initiate and develop effective multi-disciplinary relationships, fostering clarity of the SLT role within the teams to achieve productive working
  • Self-motivated, self-starter, able to organise a large and varied work programme. Demonstrate team leadership, resilience, and manage situations which are complex or unpredictable
  • Being flexible and adaptable at work in order to meet competing priorities
  • Competent in use of IT including Microsoft packages
  • Advanced knowledge of a broad range of assessment and treatment strategies relevant to a specialised caseload and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits of a range of options- in order to modify interventions as required
  • Knowledge of current evidence base and application to practice-critically appraise current research, using the results to underpin practice and inform that of others
  • Clear understanding of speech and language therapy service role within the wider context of a child's education and other needs, as well as exercising professional judgement to manage risk appropriately in response to complex and unpredictable events
  • Knowledge of the Youth Justice system including terminology, pathways, procedures, and assessments
  • Knowledge and application of professional standards & code of conduct
  • An understanding of diversity and how it impacts on the Children's Therapy Service
  • Ability to develop and implement clinical governance/audit- identify gaps in the evidence base, alerting appropriate individuals and organisations to these and how they might be addressed in a safe and pragmatic way
  • Knowledge of standards of record keeping
  • Knowledge of relevant legislation Children's Act, Excellence for All Children, SEN Code of Practice, National Autism Plan etc.