Job Description
Specialist Speech and Language Therapy
Position: Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Location: Meldreth, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border
Salary: £37,669- £44,699depending on skills and experience
Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year
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.
Qualifications and skills:
· 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
· Willingness to maintain clinical links with relevant clinical groups to develop specialist expertise and knowledge relating to the role (such as dysphagia and AAC groups)
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
Benefits:
· Life assurance
· Pension plan
· Perk Box- offering high street discounts
· Employee assistance programme
· Bike to work scheme
· Car lease scheme