Speech And Language Therapist
Melbourn | Permanent | £37,669 - £44,699/year | www.cv-library.co.uk |
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
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
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