As a result of collaborative working and investment from the Change programme, we are looking for a Speech and Language therapist to join our established community therapy team working within mainstream primary and secondary schools in Bedford Borough.
This is a fixed term post until December 2025.
We need:
1. Confident, motivated and enthusiastic therapists.
2. Experience of working in mainstream schools with a wide range of SLCN.
3. Someone looking to develop their clinical knowledge and skills.
You will:
1. Manage a caseload providing targeted, evidence-based assessment and therapy.
2. Work closely with colleagues in Health and education.
3. Participate in training to parents and other professionals around SLC needs.
4. Support junior staff within the service.
As a Service we provide:
1. A welcoming and supportive team.
2. Formal and informal training, including shadowing opportunities.
3. Regular robust clinical supervision and a mentoring system.
4. Regular whole team in house CPD days as well as in service and external courses.
5. Collaborative working with system partners including 0-19 team, Community Paediatrics and education settings.
6. Reflective clinical forums and buddying systems.
7. Regular whole service and locality meetings.
8. Career development opportunities including clinical and professional development.
Main duties of the job
1. The post holders will provide specialist clinical input to mainstream schools.
2. Working as part of the community schools' team, you will provide speech and language therapy support to children with a wide range of SLC needs including statutory provision.
3. You will provide training to enable parents and other professionals to support children's language and communication needs.
About us
Rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, we are proud to provide high quality innovative services across most of the east of England that enable people to receive care closer to home and live healthier lives.
There's one reason why our services are outstanding - and that's our amazing staff - who, for the seventh year running, rated us incredibly highly in the national staff survey.
If you share our passion for innovative and high-quality care delivery, then please submit your application and join us on our exciting journey as a leading-edge specialist community provider. All are welcome to apply and our promise to you is a culture which prioritises staff engagement and development.
Job responsibilities
1. To independently identify, assess and diagnose speech, language and communication impairments and select appropriate patients and type of therapy for effective treatment.
2. To make a differential diagnosis based on evidence from assessment, and design appropriate treatment based on analysis of profile of need seeking advice as appropriate.
3. Be responsible for delivering specialist speech and language therapy input to school age children and young people of all ages, covering a range of disorders of communication.
4. To provide training to enable parents and other professionals to support children's language and communication needs.
5. Make independent decisions about caseload management, including discharge.
6. To plan, organise and prioritise own workload, clinical and non-clinical.
7. To use clinical skills to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management for complex clinical issues.
8. Gain extensive clinical experience and expertise to improve and further develop specialist skills through training, support and study.
9. To have appropriate knowledge or an awareness of low tech AAC, for example PECS.
10. To have knowledge of and contribute to the EHCP process within the given timescales, including preparing reports with outcomes and targets for the initial report and for annual reviews as required.
11. To provide second opinions and shadowing opportunities for less experienced colleagues.
12. To seek out second opinions from more experienced colleagues as required.
13. To make referrals onto specialist services as required, including Health, Education and / or Social Services.
14. To participate in the development and delivery of training (formal and informal) to others with and without support and reflect on and evaluate training provided.
15. To contribute to the support of newly and recently graduated SLT Staff.
16. To support and take part in the induction and training of new staff to the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
* Qualified speech and language therapist.
* HCPC registered.
Desirable
* Member of relevant CEN graduate qualification in relevant area.
* Attendance at relevant courses, e.g. language and / or speech disorders.
Experience
Essential
* Demonstrates a well-established knowledge of a range of clinical disorders, assessments and appropriate therapeutic interventions in specialist field including management of children with social communication difficulties.
* Relevant experience as qualified SLT in the specialist field.
* Evidence of high level of specialist knowledge/skills as a result of experience/CPD.
Desirable
* Experience of carrying out supervision and appraisals.
Skills
Essential
* Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically.
* Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit.
* Demonstrates a positive approach to problem solving.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Address
Bedford Borough
Railton Road, Kempston
Bedford
MK42 7PN
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