Job summary
Advanced Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist Role at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust - Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD )
Full Time 37.5 hours per week
Enhance your career in a supportive and dynamic environment and join an innovative and forward thinking CYP Therapies team at Lewisham.
Main duties of the job
Working in the Multidisciplinary ASD diagnostic service.
Working across mainstream schools and Resource Bases to provide assessment, intervention and training.
Involvement in multidisciplinary teamwork, service development, clinical supervision, and specialist second opinions.
Delegated leadership responsibilities.
About us
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- Accountable to Therapies Manager.
- To work as part of the Communication Clinic multi-disciplinary team providing highly specialist speech and language therapy contribution to the differential diagnosis of Autism Spectrum disorder and other co-occurring conditions and speech language and communication needs for children and young people referred to the Communication Clinic Pathway
- To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment and participation for the schools pathway providing differential diagnosis, assessment and review of children and young people referred to Schools Pathway.
- To identify, develop, implement and evaluate highly specialist training (formal/informal) in speech, language and communication disorders in school age 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To independently assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties some of which may be highly complex, and provide second opinions as required.
- The post holder will hold a specialism within the profile of the clinical caseload.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Summary:
- Accountable to Therapies Manager.
- To work as part of the Communication Clinic multi-disciplinary team providing highly specialist speech and language therapy contribution to the differential diagnosis of Autism Spectrum disorder and other co-occurring conditions and speech language and communication needs for children and young people referred to the Communication Clinic Pathway
- To provide clinical leadership and highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment and participation for the schools pathway providing differential diagnosis, assessment and review of children and young people referred to Schools Pathway.
- To identify, develop, implement and evaluate highly specialist training (formal/informal) in speech, language and communication disorders in school age 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- To independently assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties some of which may be highly complex, and provide second opinions as required.
- 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
- Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- 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
- Completion of ADOS 2 training and reliability attendance.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience working with early years and school age children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs,
- Significant post-qualification experience working with children and young people with Autism Spectrum disorder and their families.
- Significant experience of working within clinic, mainstream and/or specialist educational settings
- Significant experience of working with schools, families 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
- Experience of service development
- Experience of developing training materials and delivering training to others
- Experience of change management
Desirable
- Experience of working in a diagnostic Clinic for children and young people who present with possible Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- 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
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
- Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- 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
- Completion of ADOS 2 training and reliability attendance.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification experience working with early years and school age children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs,
- Significant post-qualification experience working with children and young people with Autism Spectrum disorder and their families.
- Significant experience of working within clinic, mainstream and/or specialist educational settings
- Significant experience of working with schools, families 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
- Experience of service development
- Experience of developing training materials and delivering training to others
- Experience of change management
Desirable
- Experience of working in a diagnostic Clinic for children and young people who present with possible Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- 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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
