CYPS CAAAS Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

To independently assess, diagnose, plan and deliver an appropriate therapeutic service to children referred to the designated caseload, and to work in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Gloucestershire Health and Care Services NHS Trust and within the principles of the Countys Early Years and Young Peoples Strategy.

To work autonomously, taking independent responsibility for the delivery of Speech & Language Therapy to a caseload of children referred to the designated Clinic.

To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, defining a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from formal and dynamic assessments and structuring clear care plans based on best practice.

To analyse complex information to enable decision making for case management and to design appropriate intervention from a range of options to meet the needs of children aged 0 -19 referred to the Autism and ADHD service.

To work co-operatively with a range of multi-agency staff, adapting practice where necessary to ensure that a timely and effective intervention is delivered to all children.

To provide advice, demonstration and training around specific strategies of intervention for the management of the childs communication difficulty in the following areas; Environmental intervention, Parent/child interaction, modification of linguistic environment, Group intervention and Alternative and augmentative intervention. This is particularly in respect to setting up favourable communicative environments that support the use of signing and symbols/ visual supports.

To assist with the training and support of Education practitioners and Teaching Assistants in education settings to enable them to undertake delegated intervention programmes in order to incorporate and integrate provision across the childs daily curriculum.

To contribute to multi-disciplinary clinical teams by discussing own and others input around clients needs to ensure a well-coordinated care plan, working closely with clients, carers, families and multi-disciplinary team members agreeing decision making relative to patient/client management.

To contribute to the development of Speech and Language Therapy colleagues, participate in student placements, supervise the work of SLT students, assistants and volunteers and explain the role of SLTs to visitors, volunteers etc.

To use negotiation skills to manage any potential areas of conflict in a proactive manner, especially in relation to satisfying the competing demands of an unpredictable and varied workload, working co-operatively and flexibly with all stakeholders.

To form productive relationships with carers /parents who may be under stress, in particular when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of their childs difficulties and implications of this. To communicate complex condition-related information from assessments in such a manner as to inform and positively motivate clients, carers, families and multi-disciplinary team members / other professionals.

To demonstrate appropriate skills and techniques to parents and to education staff to maximise the effectiveness of intervention within all settings.

To develop collaborative and co-operative working relationships with a range of colleagues and contribute to client/working groups where appropriate.

To develop and maintain working relationships with a wide range of other Professionals including Health Visitors, Community Paediatricians, Pre-school CYPD Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators, Advisory Teaching Staff, Educational Psychologists, Social Services colleagues, Head Teachers, teaching and support staff in mainstream schools.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Diploma/degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registered with HCPC

Desirable

• Further training in ASC and neuro diversity or ability to undertake this
• Motivational Interviewing training.
• Post graduate course in sensory processing.

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Postgraduate relevant clinical experience, with a proportion of that experience gained working with Children and Young people with ASC
• Extensive experience of working with children with ASC/LD
• In-depth knowledge of co-morbid mental health presentations in relation to ASC/LD children.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with significant mental health issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of adaptations required to ensure evidence based interventions are accessible for neuro-diverse children and young people.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs.

Desirable

• Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies
• Demonstrate experience and expertise regarding delivering ASC/neurodiversity related clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff.

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evergreen House

Charlton Lane

Cheltenham

GL53 9DZ

Employer's website

https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)