Job Summary
We are pleased to offer a permanent part-time post for an enthusiastic, motivated, and well-organised Speech and Language Therapist. The post holder will work within County Durham with children and young people with Developmental Communication Disorders within the Youth Justice Service.
As a key member of the team, you will be passionate about improving health outcomes for clients and will work closely with health colleagues, partner agencies, parents, and carers. You will be a great communicator and enjoy working both independently and as part of a team in different settings.
This post will provide you with the opportunity to:
1. Focus clinical work on children & young people with a complex and diverse range of social communication and/or language difficulties including autism, selective mutism, and DLD.
2. Be an active member of the local multi-disciplinary team and work closely with the Children’s Therapy team to ensure continued development of the service.
3. Help develop evidence-based pathways for the client group.
4. Work within a range of community settings including clinics, homes, mainstream, and special school settings.
Main Duties of the Job
1. Generate appropriate strategies to manage an individual specialist caseload including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge of a diverse range of clients with fluency disorders with support and supervision from a lead clinician.
2. Develop and implement specialist care protocols and programmes of care and treatment, to meet the needs of clients in conjunction with their parents, carers, education staff, and other members of the appropriate multi-disciplinary team (MDT) with support and supervision from a lead clinician.
3. Independently manage and negotiate the management of complex cases with others e.g. onward referral to highly specialist clinicians or other specialist support agencies e.g. consultants, Educational Psychologists.
4. Provide specialist education, training, and supervision to speech and language therapy assistant practitioners and to speech and language therapists with less experience in the management of the client group, with appropriate supervision from the clinical lead.
5. Provide specialist advice and second opinions to less experienced colleagues.
6. Continually evaluate the effectiveness of care protocols and packages of care, audit, etc.
Person Specification
Statutory Registration:
* HCPC registered
Qualifications:
* Degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
* Certificate to practice as a Speech and Language Therapist
Experience:
* Experience of working as a Speech and Language Therapist, some of which has included working with clients with social communication disorders
* Working in partnership with children and parents
Special Skills & Knowledge:
* Knowledge of NHS and Education policies
* Knowledge of clinical guidelines/national documents/research relating to children and young people with social communication difficulties and Autism
* High level problem-solving skills
* Ability to work under pressure
* Flexibility in approach
* Well motivated
Special Requirements:
* Ability to travel between venues in a short timescale
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer Name: County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Chester Le Street Community Hospital, Front Street, Hollyhurst Road, Chester Le Street, County Durham, DH3 3AT
Employer's Website: https://www.cddft.nhs.uk/
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