CYPS CAAAS Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a professional with expertise in child assessment, multi-disciplinary collaboration, and clinical supervision. The candidate should demonstrate a good understanding of Autism and ADHD and contribute to service development. This role offers a rewarding opportunity to drive quality improvements and support families effectively.

Qualifications

• Experience working with children, young people, and families, particularly those with Autism.
• Understanding of ADHD or willingness to learn.
• Extensive experience in multi-disciplinary, multi-agency work.

Responsibilities

• Communicate child's needs within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Demonstrate knowledge around assessment and differential diagnosis.
• Develop and maintain links with local services.
• Offer clinical supervision and consultation.

Skills

Communication

Assessment

Analysis

Clinical supervision

Quality improvement

Teamwork in multi-disciplinary settings

Job description

The successful candidate will

• Be able to confidently communicate a child's needs within multi-disciplinary arenas, and take an active role in both diagnostic decision making and needs planning.
• Be able to demonstrate good knowledge and skills around assessment and differential diagnosis, with experience of working with children, young people and families and those with Autism
• Be able to demonstrate understanding of ADHD, or a willingness to learn more about this.
• Be confident in interpreting and analysing complex and/or sensitive information to a wide range of audiences, to drive continuous improvement and support service development.
• Be able to develop and maintain close links with a range of local services.
• Offer high quality clinical supervision and consultation to a range of professionals.
• Have expertise in delivering quality improvements.
• Have extensive experience of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency work.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.