Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist - Complex needs and Dysphagia

The Methodist Church in Britain; Wokingham; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Flexible working options

Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme

Wellbeing tools

Discounts at retailers

Job summary

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist for a 12-month fixed-term post covering the Dingley Child Development Centre and Wokingham special schools. The role focuses on early years with complex needs, paediatric dysphagia, and writing therapy plans and EHC reports.

You will manage an independent caseload, be HCPC registered, and contribute to CYPIT-based practice. Some travel and flexible working are available to support service delivery.

Qualifications

• Professional SLT qualification with degree-level knowledge and postgraduate clinical experience.
• Recognised CPD in children's therapy interventions.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat children and young people with complex presentations, including paediatric dysphagia.
• Act as an autonomous specialist clinician and support CYPIT model.
• Provide guidance to junior staff and students.
• Contribute to projects and service development as requested.
• Keep accurate clinical records and write therapy plans and reports for EHC assessments and tribunals.

Skills

Clinical SLT interventions

Written/verbal communication

IT for clinical development

Education

Degree-level SLT qualification

Postgraduate clinical experience

Tools

HCPC registration

Job description

A 12-month fixed-term Speech and Language Therapist post in the Dingley Child Development Centre team and Wokingham special schools, covering early years complex needs, at Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. The work centres on assessing and treating children and young people with complex presentations, including paediatric dysphagia, and writing therapy plans and reports for EHC assessments and tribunals. It carries an independent caseload, supports the CYPIT model and guides junior staff and students, with some travel and flexible working on offer.

What the job involves

• Assess and treat children and young people with complex presentations, including paediatric dysphagia
• Act as an autonomous specialist clinician, supporting delivery of the CYPIT model
• Support and provide guidance to more junior staff and students
• Contribute to defined projects and service development as requested
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous clinical records
• Write therapy plans and reports, including contributing to EHC assessments and tribunals
• Use needs-led, impact-based clinical decision making and outcome measures
• Carry out specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention

What’s required

Qualifications

• Professional SLT qualification with degree-level knowledge and postgraduate clinical experience
• Recognised CPD in children's therapy interventions

Registration & licences

• HCPC registration

Experience

• Minimum of 2 years post-qualification experience
• Assessing, treating and managing developmental speech, language and communication conditions in children with complex needs, including eating and drinking difficulties
• Working with families from a wide range of backgrounds, including age and ethnicity
• Developing and delivering training programmes to support service delivery
• Integrated working and close partnership working with external partners

Skills & knowledge

• Current speech and language interventions, service, professional and statutory issues, and standardised and non-standardised assessment tools
• Understanding of children's diverse needs, with the child at the heart of actions
• Impact-based care planning, with belief in its value
• Excellent, succinct written and verbal communication, including presentations
• Working across professional boundaries in a multidisciplinary team, calm in stressful situations
• Using IT to support and innovate clinical development

Checks & eligibility

• Full UK driving licence with access to a car for work

Other

• Self-motivated and able to role model change

Nice to have

• Clinical Educators course

What’s offered

• 27 days' annual leave rising with service, with opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Flexible working options
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Cycle to Work and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles, and free parking across Trust sites
• Access to wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of retailers and restaurants
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave