Highly specialist speech and language therapist

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 SLT to join our community SLT team, working in our Special School/Resource Base team across two schools (Cedar Resource Base and Paddock School). This role is ideal for people who are interested in developing their leadership skills at Band 7 level and contributing to the development of the service.

We are a friendly, supportive team who pride ourselves on our commitment to creating an equal and inclusive working environment for people of all backgrounds providing an evidence informed and based service for all our families. You will have:

• Experience of, and highly specialist skills working with, a diverse paediatric caseload 4-18 years old
• Experience of supporting the evaluation of service delivery in Special Schools/Resource Bases
• Experience in developing and delivering universal and/or targeted level offers to special schools and/or resource bases
• Ability to work effectively as part of a multi-agency team
• Ability to work flexibly and independently where necessary
• Enthusiasm, imagination, and initiative
• Understanding of the neurodiversity framework

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of service delivery within Cedar Base and the Special Schools team.
• To demonstrate highly specialist clinical skills in an area relevant to the team you work in.
• To lead/supervise others within the service and to act as a resource and support for other therapists working with children with speech, language, and social communication difficulties.
• To be responsible for the management of a caseload of children with developmental speech and language delays/disorders and social communication difficulties.
• To provide line management to junior staff and SLTAs and participate in and provide clinical supervision and support as required.
• To work with parents, carers, school staff and other agencies involved in the children's care as well as part of a multi-agency team.
• To work as a member of the community paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Team.

About us

The Children's Therapy team consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and speech and language therapists. Therapists work in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency teams across the borough of Wandsworth.

We have a range of working parties to ensure we are utilising best practice including:

• Diversity and Inclusion
• Social emotional and mental health (SEMH)
• Supporting children who use echolalia to communicate
• Special school and resource base supervision network

We are very proud of our inclusive and proactive team of therapists and assistants providing evidence-based and informed intervention to Wandsworth's children.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

Person Specification Experience

• Experience of working with children with special needs in an educational or multi-disciplinary setting (e.g. clinic)
• Experience working with therapy assistants and delegating
• Experience supervising junior members of staff

Knowledge

• Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group
• Well established knowledge of a range of standardised and functional assessment tools relevant to the client group
• Understanding of the neurodiversity affirming framework and how this applies to working with children with SLCN

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.

Address

Granard Resource Base and Paddock School

£54,320 to £60,981 a year pro-rata incl HCAS (inner)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

200-NN AHP-Y

Job locations

Granard Resource Base and Paddock School