Advanced Speech & Language therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Summary:

1. Accountable to Therapies Manager.
2. To provide highly specialist speech and language therapy for children and young people and participation in multi disciplinary working; providing differential diagnosis, assessment, intervention and review of children and young people referred to the Special Schools Pathway.
3. To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment and participation for the Special Schools pathway providing differential diagnosis, assessment intervention and review of children and young people within a multi-disciplinary context.
4. To identify, develop, implement and evaluate highly specialist training (formal/informal) in speech, language and communication disorders and eating and drinking difficulties in children and young people for parent/carers, speech and language therapists, paediatricians, teaching staff and a range of professionals, within and external to the Trust taking account of different levels of knowledge and skills of the audience.
5. To act as an expert witness/advisor providing expert clinical opinion to Lewisham Education SEN Service, attending Special Educational Needs Tribunals, Disagreement Resolution Meetings and other relevant meetings as required ensuring that the childs speech and language therapy needs and the level of resources required to meet these are clarified.
6. To ensure that the service provided is integrated (within the relevant multi/uni disciplinary care pathways), evidence based and delivered in accordance with care pathways/protocols and responsive to the needs of the local population.
7. To independently assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties and eating and drinking difficulties some of which may be highly complex and have multiple diagnosis such as Autism Spectrum disorder, Learning disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory difficulties and profound and multiple learning disabilities, and provide second opinions as required.
8. The post holder will hold a specialism within the profile of the clinical caseload.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
• Successful completion of Post-qualification Dysphagia course or equivalent
• Competence/willingness to undertake relevant advanced training/post qualification training
• Successful completion of highly specialist post graduate study relevant to the field at Master's degree level or equivalent specialist advanced short courses

Desirable

• Membership of relevant professional forums
• Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-qualification experience working with children with a wide range of complex needs and associated speech, language and communication difficulties
• Experience of working with children with dysphagia , feeding and drinking needs
• Significant experience of working with schools, families and the wider multidisciplinary team and engaging them in interventions
• Experience of clinically supervising staff
• Experience of advising/providing second opinions for children with complex speech/language or communication difficulties and eating & drinking difficulties
• Experience of service development
• Experience of developing training materials and delivering training to others
• Experience of change management

Desirable

• Experience of methods of involving users in service development
• Experience of taking part in appraising and setting objectives for less experienced staff
• Experience of writing protocols and/or policies
• Experience of developing training packages for others

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Address

Greenvale Special school

Waters Road

Bellingham

SE6 1UF

Employer's website

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)