Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Horizon Care and Education provides a high-quality residential care and educational experiences for young people across the UK. The homes and schools meet the needs of young people with a range of needs including attachment and trauma histories, social, emotional, and mental health (SEMH) needs, speech, language and communication difficulties, and neurodiversity.

Working alongside other Therapists and Psychologists, the post-holder will ensure that the therapeutic needs of children and young people who attend a Horizon school are understood, and interventions are planned and delivered to support these identified needs. They will provide therapeutic understanding of the young people to the wider team around the child including Teachers and TAs through consultation and training opportunities.

Main Duties

Core Responsibilities

To deliver evidence based therapeutic and psychologically informed care which conforms to their own ethical standards and is in line with Horizons Values and SHINE Therapeutic Model of Care.

To undertake SALT assessments of young people to identify individual needs and develop and provide the delivery of individualised and group-based intervention programmes.

To provide specialist SALT advice and guidance to young peoples plans including behaviour plans, teaching plans, risk assessments and EHCPs.

To develop and contribute to the development, delivery, and evaluation of therapeutic training to all staff in the organisation.

To use outcome and evaluation tools to measure the effectiveness of services and to report this data back to the Head of SEND

To manage a caseload for individual intervention, providing specialist SALT input to young people and teams in educational settings.

To contribute to the development of a therapeutically informed service across education teams.

To provide specialist knowledge of SALT principles and techniques through consultation and guidance to other colleagues within Horizon.

To liaise with external agencies e.g., Local Authorities, voluntary agencies, CAMHS to ensure that the needs of the young person are recognised and intervention(s) that are being undertaken are the most appropriate plans for the young person.

Clinical Responsibilities

To engage flexibly with children/young people and colleagues to promote constructive working relationships.

To provide consultation, support, and guidance to colleagues to develop therapeutically informed relationships with young people and to develop appropriate behaviour support and care planning strategies.

To carry out intervention with young people in line with ethical standards including gaining valid informed consent from young people.

To continually evaluate progress against agreed goals, to review and adapt the intervention plans if needed.

To utilise relevant Standardised assessments to inform intervention, ensuring that feedback is provided for young people and the wider team on the outcomes of any measures used.

To provide therapeutic feedback at relevant meetings as requested for example review meetings, MDT meetings, to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated MDT approach and integrated therapeutic service.

To be responsible for maintaining own competency to practice through CPD activities and supervision. To ensure CPD records are kept up to date to evidence ongoing development.

To participate in discussions in regard to referrals.

To write and share appropriate reports regarding intervention that has been undertaken.

To support Education colleagues through observation of young people in classrooms, explanations of behaviours and modelling therapeutic engagement to support the embedding of a wider therapeutic approach.

To provide supports, training, and supervision to assistant practitioners and/or volunteer students when required.

Organisational Responsibilities

To attend regular team meetings and CPD days with other colleagues.

To positively engage with supervision.

To maintain open and straightforward communication with colleagues and provide information within the time and format required.

To provide regular feedback to the team regarding service delivery.

To provide a therapeutic perspective in the development of organisational policies, strategies, and decisions.

To adhere to Horizon Policies and Procedures

Administration Responsibilities

To maintain proper clinical records and provide KPI data returns as required.

To be involved in monitoring and evaluation of Therapy within the organisation.

To maintain expenses and other organisational records as required.

To maintain confidentiality for and with young people (individual and organisational).

Research Responsibilities

To undertake research in areas relevant to clinical work and organisational development, this may be undertaken in collaboration with other professionals, where appropriate. All research projects to be agreed and authorised by the internal Research Ethics Committee and Horizon Leadership team (HLT) .

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• HCPC registered.
• BSc registered Speech and Language Therapist
• Experience of working with Children and Young People or relevant demonstrable transferable skills
• We will accept nearly Qualified applications
• A desire to support services through embedding therapeutic practice
• Experience of teaching, training and/or supervision.
• Well-developed skills in the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
• Ability to work autonomously with the support from individual and peer supervision
• Ability to role model behaviours and attitudes in line with organisational values
• A sound understanding of Microsoft Office components, including knowledge of Excel, Teams and SharePoint
• Full UK driving licence and use of your own vehicle

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.

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

Horizon Care and Education Group

Address

Brewood School

86 London Road

Deal

Kent

CT14 9TR

Employer's website

https://www.horizoncare.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)