Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (Children)

The Children's Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-site nursery

Free eye tests

Enhanced parental leave

Staff shuttle

Job summary

The Children’s Trust is seeking a high-quality Speech and Language Therapist to assess and treat children and young people with neurodisabilities in a multidisciplinary, multi-agency setting, delivering evidence-based interventions across home, school, and community settings.

You will lead SLT provision for the school, support tracheostomy care, undertake complex assessments, develop individual plans with families, and work closely with other professionals to ensure integrated care and timely

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality, evidence based and equitable speech and language therapy interventions for children and young people attending The Children's Trust.
• Lead the provision of high quality, evidence based speech and language therapy provision for children and young people attending The Children's Trust School in partnership with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team and Education services.
• Support the Multidisciplinary Team regarding the impact of tracheostomies, on speaking and swallowing following assessment of laryngeal integrity, secretion management and swallow.
• Undertake specialist speech and language therapy assessments of children with highly complex needs e.g. multiple co-morbidities, neurodisabilities and chronic conditions, through standardised and non-standardised assessments and clinical observations.
• Devise suitable, individual, speech and language therapy plan that fit within the child's daily routine, whether to be carried out by parents or members of the Multidisciplinary team; these
• Be an autonomous practitioner with responsibility for assessment, treatment, and planning for an allocated caseload of children/young people.
• Be a key point of support and advice for the speech and language therapy team and Multidisciplinary team.
• Work closely with all members of the Multidisciplinary team, as well as the child and family, to provide a fully integrated approach to the overall management of the child. This will include any home/school visits, professional child related meetings and / or appointments, as required.
• Liaise with all appropriate medical staff, whether employed by The Children's Trust, visiting consultants or at off-site clinics, and attend clinics with the child as required.
• Contribute to the assessment and discussion of new referrals to The Children's Trust, carrying out off site referral assessments around the United Kingdom, as required.
• Contribute to child related reports, including looked after children and annual review reports as required, and assist with the collation of these as and when required, in a timely manner and in line with organisational targets.
• Utilise patient reported and standardised outcome measures for each allocated child/young person and complete in a timely manner.
• Assess, evaluate, and recommend discharge/transition plans for children/young people within the multidisciplinary team framework.

Job description

The Children’s Trust is seeking a high-quality Speech and Language Therapist to assess and treat children and young people with neurodisabilities in a multidisciplinary, multi-agency setting, delivering evidence-based interventions across home, school, and community settings.

You will lead SLT provision for the school, support tracheostomy care, undertake complex assessments, develop individual plans with families, and work closely with other professionals to ensure integrated care and timely