Highly Specialist (Lead) Speech and Language Therapist

NHS Jobs; Rochester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist. The successful candidate will develop care pathways for children with speech and language communication needs, deliver specialist treatment, and provide advice to parents and professionals. This role is vital for ensuring effective communication support for children within their care. Competitive salary and support from the team offered.

Responsibilities

• Develop care pathways for children with significant SLCN.
• Deliver specialist clinical decision-making and treatment.
• Provide advice and support to professionals on communication issues.

Job description

Highly Specialist (Lead) Speech and Language Therapist

Please see attached JD&PS for full details of duties and responsibilities. To develop care pathways for an identified cohort of children who present with significant SLCN. To deliver highly specialist clinical decision-making including induction screening, detailed assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, evaluation, discharge and general management of a diverse and complex caseload. To provide a broad range of treatments to a highly specialist standard including those for phonological awareness delay, speech sound disorder, auditory attention and processing difficulties, language disorder, social communication delay and disorder, stammering and voice problems. To maintain an up-to-date, advanced level of theoretical knowledge and therapeutic evidence-based practice. To provide highly specialist advice and support for other professionals on communication and related issues in order to build an effective communication environment for the children in their care. This may include advising on how documentation provided for the children can be more easily understood. To provide highly specialist advice to parents, carers and relevant professionals on the impact of communication impairment on a childs educational, social and emotional development/status including impairments related to offending history. To involve children in the development of their care plan and targets where possible. To provide verbal and typed reports, therapy programmes and other types of complex information to an excellent standard for the child, families, carers and relevant professionals and to adapt the content to the communication styles and diverse backgrounds of the recipients. This may include the need to overcome barriers to understanding or motivation which may include English as an additional language (EAL), mental health difficulties and environmental issues. To share appropriate clinical information with those professionals supporting the childs progress through the Criminal Justice System (CJS), including Intermediaries, and agencies involved with integration back into the community.