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