We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated practitioner to join us as a Speech and Language Therapist Assistant Practitioner and work alongside our established Mid and West Cornwall Speech and Language Therapy Teams due to upcoming maternity leave.
The successful candidate will:
1. Provide Speech and Language Therapy intervention to children with speech, language and communication needs in mid and West Cornwall under the supervision of a speech and language therapist.
2. Independently manage, with support from a Speech and Language Therapist, a caseload of children with developmental communication and acquired disorders of speech, language and communication.
3. Provide appropriate intervention as identified by a speech and language therapist, and evaluate outcomes.
4. Set up resources within programmes to be carried out by other key workers/Parents.
5. Contribute to written reports collated by the Speech and Language Therapist.
6. Communicate information from assessment and provide advice to relatives, early years and school staff and other professionals on matters relating to the speech, language and communication needs of individual patients; requiring the ability to communicate with others in a way that they can understand what is being said and enable them to be able to make choices and decisions about the child’s care.
To provide training and support to:
* Parents and carers
* Other professionals including early years and school staff
* Appropriate Voluntary Organisations, at local level
* Other speech and language therapists
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
For full information of the roles and responsibilities of this role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
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