Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Neurodiversity Team

Job summary

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children's community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

This role is for a full time band 7 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Neurodiversity Pathway. This is an exciting time to join CFHD and to be a part of a newly forming team offering intervention and undertaking clinical assessments. This role involves working within a specialist multi disciplinary team and liaising, and working closely with colleagues both within CFHD, and with other organisations.

The role will include offering clinical supervision to team members, and receiving clinical supervision from the speech and language therapist professional lead.

Main duties of the job

• Hold an appropriate caseload and undertake a lead clinician role for children receiving intervention from within the specialist pathway.
• Undertake specialist assessments.
• Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To clinically supervise, and support Speech and Language Therapists working within the Neurodiversity Pathway in Torbay and South Devon.
• To link closely with Speech and Language Therapists across Devon.
• To become a member of the L and G group, to ensure consistency of approaches across Devon.
• Ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routine outcome measures.
• To support the screening and triage process, and be part of the duty team.

About us

The Neurodiversity Pathway is a developing integrated pathway with CFHD. The proposed Integrated Neurodiversity Pathway will provide specialist assessment and intervention for children and young people with neurodiversity.

The community integrated team will bring together a variety of disciplines from across CAMHS and Specialist Children's services, Community Paediatrics, Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Psychological therapies, and Clinical Psychology.

Why work with us - Torbay Hospital provides acute care for the local community and has several community hospitals, and is a hot-spot for those who are considering living by the sea or within half an hour of Dartmoor National Park and an hour to Exmoor National Park. Meanwhile, Plymouth and Exeter are also both within a short drive to enjoy the culture, maritime history and shopping experiences.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registration as a speech and language therapist

Desirable

• ADOS/ 3DI trained

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of clinical experience of working with children and y/p with neurodiversity

Desirable

• Experience of offering clinical supervision

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).