This post attracts a New Hire Bonus of £1,500 (pro-rata for part-time staff), please see attached terms and conditions.
Would you like to be part of a team of talented, skilled and compassionate Speech and Language Therapists and Support Workers?
Are you looking for a new challenge and motivated to make a difference?
We are recruiting for an enthusiastic Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist who is a first-class Clinician with strong communication and interpersonal skills to join our friendly and welcoming team.
The successful candidate will work in special schools as part of our complex needs team, working with children with both communication and swallowing difficulties. Training and development opportunities are available for those seeking to develop a specialism in complex needs.
As a Trust:
Cambridgeshire Community Services is not merely a healthcare institution but a beacon of universal care, diversity, exceptional patient care, lifelong learning, and an enriching work-life balance.
Main duties of the job
Working as part of the complex needs team, the post holder will be responsible for the delivery of Speech and Language Therapy provision to children in special schools in Central Bedfordshire.
The post holder will hold both a communication and dysphagia caseload.
There is an opportunity for the successful candidate to complete training, and receive in-service support, to achieve their dysphagia competencies.
Job responsibilities
Job Purpose: The post holder will provide specialist clinical input to the special schools across Central Bedfordshire and independently manage the caseloads in these settings.
They will:
1. Use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of children with complex difficulties in speech, language, communication.
2. Develop clinical competencies in Dysphagia management and AAC.
3. In consultation with the Team lead, identify, assess, and diagnose communication/swallowing impairments and determine appropriate intervention for effective treatment.
4. To assess children and provide written recommendations and ongoing support for implementation, for class teams.
5. Attend and provide reports to Annual Reviews/Multi Agency Meetings as appropriate.
6. Provide Communication Support and advice in relation to functional communication, to support teaching and learning.
7. Demonstrate specific speech and language therapy support programmes and the use of equipment to specific teachers or groups of staff.
8. Provide guidance and whole school training in relation to functional communication including receptive, expressive, and interactional skills.
9. To contribute to relevant research, audit, and development work within the schools, relating to the Speech Language and Communication curriculum.
10. To attend relevant meetings as required within school or as part of wider SLT team.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
1. To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of professions across a variety of locations and agencies.
2. To attend and report to case conferences/review meetings etc. for patients on the caseload with support as requested for situations where conflict management/negotiation may be required.
3. To present and communicate complex condition related information in such a manner as to motivate and inform patients, carers, families, and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions, agreeing decision-making relevant to patient management.
4. To use good interpersonal skills to listen well and counsel patients and carers, so providing support and empathy without prejudice.
5. To establish and maintain positive interpersonal relationships with other staff, which are characterised by open communication, trust, and respect.
6. To attend and participate in professional meetings and other relevant meetings.
7. To communicate effectively with patients with communication problems where difficulties in understanding exist, using observation, listening and empathy.
8. To use negotiation skills in the management of conflict across a range of situations.
9. To assess, develop and implement specialist speech and language therapy intervention as appropriate.
10. To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment and design appropriate treatment based on analysis of profile of need.
11. To analyse and interpret complex information relating to patients and to service provision in order to plan patient care and service development.
12. To devise care protocols for children with disabilities, including those with AAC and dysphagia requirements.
13. To use skills and knowledge to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management for complex clinical issues.
14. Able to plan, organise and prioritise own workload, clinical and non-clinical.
15. To assume delegated tasks as requested by line manager, including participation in working groups, policy development groups.
16. To contribute to interagency/multi-disciplinary team building and policy development, advising on the implementation of AAC systems and relevant areas of the curriculum.
17. To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct.
18. To participate in the development of local clinical guidelines informed by evidence for clinical specialism.
19. To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional and Clinical and National and Local Clinical Guidelines.
20. To have a robust working knowledge of relevant statutory legislation and policy including: Safeguarding Children, The Children and Families Act 2014, delivery of SLT relating to SEND procedures, and other relevant legal frameworks.
21. To participate in the implementation of service/Trust Clinical Governance Plan.
22. To take delegated lead on the implementation of team objectives or projects in liaison with peers.
23. To advise line manager on issues of service delivery including shortfall, and service pressures, and clinical risk.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
* Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
* Registered Member of RCSLT
* Registered Member of HCPC
* Evidence of successful completion of short specialist courses
Desirable
* Evidence of commitment to CPD
* Dysphagia Competencies
Experience
Essential
* Relevant experience as qualified SLT in AAC and complex needs.
* Experienced in working with children in schools with a wide range of Communication disorders.
* Experience of delivering training to education staff and parents.
* Experience in working with education professionals and wider groups to support children's communication development.
Desirable
* Experience of working with Dysphagia
Knowledge & Skills
Essential
* Well established knowledge about speech, language and communication disorders associated with complex conditions and emotional/behavioural disorders
* Demonstrates an in depth knowledge of educational and clinical issues/developments relating to children with complex needs
* Knowledge of the graduated response to supporting children's SLCN
* Knowledge of AAC
* Computer literate
Desirable
* Knowledge and understanding of the philosophy and set up of special schools.
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS Trust
Address
Woburn Court
2 Railton Road
Kempston
MK42 7PN
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