Speech And Language Therapist

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Specialist Speech and Language Therapy

Position: Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Location: Meldreth, Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border

Salary: 37,669- 44,699depending on skills and experience

Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per week, 52 weeks a year

Key duties and responsibilities:

Manage and prioritise a paediatric caseload including communication and dysphagia needs.

Carry out comprehensive communication, swallowing, eating and drinking assessments.

Provide advice on suitability and therapy needs of prospective students.

Provide individual aims for communication and eating and drinking as part of the MDT for Individual Education Plans

Provide individual programmes for communication, assistive technology, swallowing and feeding.

Deliver speech and language interventions to individuals, small groups or within the classroom as required.

Maintain concise clinical recording in accordance with professional guidelines.

Monitor eating and drinking support practice and provide training as required.

Promote Total Communication practice across the service.

Work with staff and family members to ensure consistent, joined up communication support.

Attend and contribute to reviews, providing written reports where required.

Make onward referrals for specialist assessment or advice in respect of AAC or dysphagia.

Provide induction and individualised training as required.

Supervise and line manage speech and language therapy assistant(s)

Work within professional boundaries and seek guidance where required.

Qualifications and skills:

Speech and Language Therapy degree at graduate or masters level

Certificate to practise Speech and Language Therapy

Registered member of RCSLT and HCPC

Post-graduate dysphagia training

Competencies at Level C of RCSLT Eating, Drinking and Swallowing Competency Framework (EDSCF)

Requirement to undertake relevant learning, continued professional development and clinical supervision as required by RCSLT and HCPC

Willingness to maintain clinical links with relevant clinical groups to develop specialist expertise and knowledge relating to the role (such as dysphagia and AAC groups)

Experience:

Working with children and young people with SEND, PMLD and ASD

Working with children and young people with complex communication, swallowing and feeding needs

Working with hi and lo-tech AAC systems

Delivering provision through EHCP process

Working in early years, school or college settings

Working with a dysphagia caseload

Working within a multi-disciplinary team

Benefits:

Life assurance

Pension plan

Perk Box- offering high street discounts

Employee assistance programme

Bike to work scheme

Car lease scheme