Highly Specialist/Advanced Speech and Language Therapist (ASD)

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Highly Specialist/Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to join their multidisciplinary team. This role involves assessing and providing support for children with ASD, contributing to a team renowned for its commitment to developmental progress in a friendly working environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in ASD assessment and post-diagnostic support.
• Ability to conduct high quality assessments and deliver results.
• Work collaboratively with other health professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide speech, language, and social communication assessments.
• Participate in multidisciplinary assessment processes.
• Deliver ASD specific assessments to support diagnosis.

Skills

Assessment

Communication

Multidisciplinary collaboration

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Highly Specialist/Advanced Speech and Language Therapist (ASD)

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This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic speech and language therapist to work in the area of ASD assessment and post diagnostic support.

• 1 fixed term for 12 months
  
  

Working as part of a diverse and expert multidisciplinary team you will contribute to the assessment, diagnosis and post diagnostic support of children and young people with ASD / Neurodiversity. The team is supportive, warm and friendly with good opportunities for interdisciplinary working and professional development. The team is expanding in remit and numbers and the successful candidates will part of this expansion of service. For further information please contact Jenny Corsie, Principal Speech and Language Therapist ([e-mail])

• To provide high quality speech, language and social communication assessments to inform a multidisciplinary assessment of ASD.
• To work with other professionals to plan and deliver multidisciplinary assessments to support the ASD diagnostic process
• To deliver a range of ASD specific assessments to support diagnosis
• To participate in multidisciplinary outcome meetings
• To carry out clinical triage on new referrals into the service
• To plan care and assessment needs of new referrals into the service
• To support and deliver aspects of the post diagnostic offer
• To support service development of assessment process and practice
• To provide advice and signposting to parents and professional at any stage of the assessment process
• To be available for advice, support and teaching of other therapists
  
  

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jenny Corsie Job title: Principal Speech and Language Therapist Email address: [e-mail]

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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