Job summary
School Aged Complex Needs Band 7 SLT: We have an exciting opportunity to join
our team of special school therapists for 15 hours per week. This year-round
role is based at Riverwalk School, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk for pupils aged
3-19 with severe, profound and complex learning needs, as well as covering a small
cohort of children not in school; and providing support during the school
holidays as appropriate. It would be possible to work this role as a TTO contract.
As a Band 7 you
would hold your own caseload, share leadership for the schools SaLT team; manage
caseloads, supervise staff & help develop the service. There is a small
dysphagia caseload for candidates with experience and a wide range of
communication needs and abilities.
Part of the
countywide community service the school aged complex needs pathway includes 6 special
schools and support childrens communication/eating and drinking needs to ensure
they make the best possible progress in relation to the outcomes in their EHCPs.
If you have the
necessary skills, experience and qualities to help us to put patients first,
please contact Paula Hughes, Pathway Lead for SACN, on 01284 741732 for an informal discussion
Main duties of the job
Take a lead therapist role (for own work & others in the team):
Manage caseloads & deliver provision for students with a range of
speech, language, communication, and eating and drinking needs including the use
of AAC in class
Evaluate/update EHCP targets, write Annual Review reports
Ensure a holistic approach through liaison with families, health
professionals & school staff
Manage expectations & matters arising e.g. compliments / complaints
Deliver & evaluate (virtual) training packages (school/home),
develop new packages as needed
Update /inform & upskill families & carers to create effective
partnerships
Safeguard students, support other staff to do so
Keep accurate & timely records to a high standard using SystmOne
Use therapy outcome measures
Develop staff & SLT students, including 1 to 1s & appraisals
Support/generate wider service development projects
Collect, analyse & disseminate service data as required
Promote team-work & best
practice within the school, pathway & service level.
Maintain high levels of
reflective practice & keep clinical skills up to date through CPD
Attend/participate in team
meetings
Deputise for Pathway Lead as required
About us
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at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to
more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for,
treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community
settings.
The
West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care
services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery
unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+
beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult
and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk
Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing
temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We
do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our
values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we
work and behave as a team.
With
nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation
a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be
the best you can be.
We
promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you
can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join
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Job description
Job responsibilities
To independently manage a highly specialist, complex caseload within area of specialism including students with eating and drinking difficulties.
To work with children in educational settings who have a range of significant speech/language disorders.
To provide second opinions to other speech & language therapists within your area of speciality.
To provide management and clinical supervision/mentor junior colleagues
To provide specialist training to others.
To contribute to the assessment of students on clinical placement.
To deputise for pathway lead as required.
Core Dimensions
1. Communication
- To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to children, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions
- To work closely with children, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the child management
- To evaluate outcomes and provide advice to others regarding the management and care of children with communication and feeding difficulties
- To identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness and safe eating and drinking
- To develop skills in motivating clients and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process
- To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
- To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties
- To give information & advice to enable children, their parents/carers and other professionals working with the child, to carry out therapy interventions and ensure on-going support between professional treatment sessions
- To prepare and write detailed specialist reports for the Statutory Assessment Procedure, including EHCPs and annual reviews
- To liaise and work with other members of the multi-disciplinary team: therapists, teachers, educational psychologists, special educational needs teachers, Consultant Paediatricians, advisory teachers
- To give appropriate information to children, parents/carers and other professional staff regarding training programmes
- To give information as required for the contracting process and general service requirements
- To keep adequate records on patients, to maintain confidentiality in respect of this information, and comply with the Trusts record keeping policy
- To attend professional meetings
2. Personal and people development
- To maintain and develop professional competence through continuing professional development, and to develop the ability to reflect on and evaluate training attended
- To actively participate in clinical supervision
- To actively provide second opinions/supervision to other therapists
- To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior staff
- To provide clinical placements and take responsibility for contributing to the assessment of speech and language therapy students
- To offer observation opportunities to a range of non-speech & language therapy students, e.g. sixth form students, medical, other professional staff, etc.
- To participate in the recruitment of junior staff
- To develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including: Safeguarding Children, SEN procedures, and other legal frameworks
- To provide specialist clinical advice to other professionals
- To demonstrate the ability to reflect on clinical practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and development needs
- To maintain clinical competence in specialist area
- To provide in-service training sessions as appropriate to relevant staff
- To provide mentoring and carry out appraisals for junior Speech and Language Therapists
- To explain the role of Speech and Language Therapists to visitors, students and volunteers
- To propose and develop the identification of training needs within the team
- To develop, organise, plan and deliver specialist training sessions for teachers/parents/carers and other professional staff
- To participate in departmental research and clinical governance/audit projects/collect and provide research data as required
- To participate in the staff appraisal system
Job description
Job responsibilities
To independently manage a highly specialist, complex caseload within area of specialism including students with eating and drinking difficulties.
To work with children in educational settings who have a range of significant speech/language disorders.
To provide second opinions to other speech & language therapists within your area of speciality.
To provide management and clinical supervision/mentor junior colleagues
To provide specialist training to others.
To contribute to the assessment of students on clinical placement.
To deputise for pathway lead as required.
Core Dimensions
1. Communication
- To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to children, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions
- To work closely with children, carers and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the child management
- To evaluate outcomes and provide advice to others regarding the management and care of children with communication and feeding difficulties
- To identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness and safe eating and drinking
- To develop skills in motivating clients and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process
- To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
- To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging communication difficulties
- To give information & advice to enable children, their parents/carers and other professionals working with the child, to carry out therapy interventions and ensure on-going support between professional treatment sessions
- To prepare and write detailed specialist reports for the Statutory Assessment Procedure, including EHCPs and annual reviews
- To liaise and work with other members of the multi-disciplinary team: therapists, teachers, educational psychologists, special educational needs teachers, Consultant Paediatricians, advisory teachers
- To give appropriate information to children, parents/carers and other professional staff regarding training programmes
- To give information as required for the contracting process and general service requirements
- To keep adequate records on patients, to maintain confidentiality in respect of this information, and comply with the Trusts record keeping policy
- To attend professional meetings
2. Personal and people development
- To maintain and develop professional competence through continuing professional development, and to develop the ability to reflect on and evaluate training attended
- To actively participate in clinical supervision
- To actively provide second opinions/supervision to other therapists
- To provide clinical and managerial supervision to junior staff
- To provide clinical placements and take responsibility for contributing to the assessment of speech and language therapy students
- To offer observation opportunities to a range of non-speech & language therapy students, e.g. sixth form students, medical, other professional staff, etc.
- To participate in the recruitment of junior staff
- To develop a working knowledge of relevant procedures including: Safeguarding Children, SEN procedures, and other legal frameworks
- To provide specialist clinical advice to other professionals
- To demonstrate the ability to reflect on clinical practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and development needs
- To maintain clinical competence in specialist area
- To provide in-service training sessions as appropriate to relevant staff
- To provide mentoring and carry out appraisals for junior Speech and Language Therapists
- To explain the role of Speech and Language Therapists to visitors, students and volunteers
- To propose and develop the identification of training needs within the team
- To develop, organise, plan and deliver specialist training sessions for teachers/parents/carers and other professional staff
- To participate in departmental research and clinical governance/audit projects/collect and provide research data as required
- To participate in the staff appraisal system
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech & Language therapy degree qualification
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team
- An awareness of own communication style and ability to adapt to any situation
- Enhanced communication skills
- Written information is accurate and concise
- Ability to reflect on clinical practice
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals
- Ability to adapt own work and take on new tasks
- Generates ideas for the improvement of the service
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- Very good time management skills
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
- An understanding of outcome measures and evidence of using these
- Ability to prioritise own workload
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children with EHCPs in educational settings
- Knowledge of the Statutory Assessment Procedure
- Evidence of carrying out a significant number of therapy interventions with children and parents
- Evidence of in-depth knowledge in working with children with complex communication and learning needs
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Experience of liaising with medical and education colleagues and of working in partnership with parents/carers.
- Evidence and experience of using a range of informal and formal assessment tools
- Experience of assessments and interventions used with paediatric dysphagia
- Post graduate experience knowledge of working with a range of paediatric dysphagia and eating and drinking difficulties.
- Experience of delivering in-service training within a range of settings
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
Desirable
- Evidence of managing people small team project
Personal Qualities
Essential
- An awareness of own communication style and ability to adapt to any situation
- Enhanced communication skills
- Ability to travel to rural locations to carry out post
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech & Language therapy degree qualification
- Registered with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Member of the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to work as part of a team
- An awareness of own communication style and ability to adapt to any situation
- Enhanced communication skills
- Written information is accurate and concise
- Ability to reflect on clinical practice
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals
- Ability to adapt own work and take on new tasks
- Generates ideas for the improvement of the service
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance
- Very good time management skills
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
- An understanding of outcome measures and evidence of using these
- Ability to prioritise own workload
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working with children with EHCPs in educational settings
- Knowledge of the Statutory Assessment Procedure
- Evidence of carrying out a significant number of therapy interventions with children and parents
- Evidence of in-depth knowledge in working with children with complex communication and learning needs
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Experience of liaising with medical and education colleagues and of working in partnership with parents/carers.
- Evidence and experience of using a range of informal and formal assessment tools
- Experience of assessments and interventions used with paediatric dysphagia
- Post graduate experience knowledge of working with a range of paediatric dysphagia and eating and drinking difficulties.
- Experience of delivering in-service training within a range of settings
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
Desirable
- Evidence of managing people small team project
Personal Qualities
Essential
- An awareness of own communication style and ability to adapt to any situation
- Enhanced communication skills
- Ability to travel to rural locations to carry out post
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
