Senior Speech & Language Therapist - Community Children's Service
The post-holder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the grade as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the post-holder when necessary and in line with the service developments. KEY RESULT AREAS: To provide clinical expertise and advice on assessment, diagnosis and management of children with developmental language disorder To provide clinical expertise to the multi-disciplinary team to inform their decision making and to provide advice and guidance to carers, non-clinical staff or members of other professions, who may be influenced by this and to maintain professional relationships with relevant others, working as part of the wider team To participate in the planning and implementation of the day to day operation of the Speech and Language Therapy Service to this client group.
To prepare, implement and evaluate therapy programmes and advice for clients to ensure the delivery of designated standards of care consistent with departmental policies and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy Guidelines. To develop, write, deliver and evaluate specialised training packages with access to specialist support as required to parents, carers, other professional groups and speech and language therapists.This will also include supporting generalists in developing training packages. To provide mentoring, clinical supervision, peer support and joint visits for advice to Speech and Language Therapists, generalists and assistants relevant to this clinical area.
To assist in the training and supervision of Speech and Language Therapy assistants, students from other professions and to be involved in the provision of full student placements in accordance with Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy guidelines To participate in the development of innovations in the Childrens Speech and Language Therapy Service and related service delivery issues, risk management, quality standard setting and clinical effectiveness.
To maintain accurate and concise clinical records, providing appropriate reports, attend case conferences and reviews and to provide statistical information to facilitate future business planning in line with Trust guidelines. To reflect on practice, both individually and with peers to identify own strengths and needs, demonstrate Continuing Professional Development and to maintain a portfolio or equivalent in line with professional and Trust guidelines To work within the confines of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.