Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

We are excited to be able to offer a great opportunity working in our Youth Justice Service and SEMH Specialist Schools!

This role has a competitive starting salary of £43,996 per annum based on 36 hours per week.

You willjoin our supportive and solution-focused team where you will develop the communication skills of children in our specialist schools and for young people in our Youth Justice Service.

Surrey Youth Offending Service has received an overall rating of 'Good' following an inspection by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Probation. This follows an inspection in 2019, when the service was given an overall rating of 'Inadequate'.

Chief Inspector of Probation Justin Russell said: "To go from an 'Inadequate' to 'Good' rating in just a few years is quite an achievement. Surrey YOS is now an organised and focused service that understands the children under their supervision. They have an impressive range of innovative services for each child, which look to deter them from further offending at the earliest opportunity."

Rewards and Benefits

• 26 days' holiday rising to 28 days after 2 years' service and 30 days after 5
• Paid RCSLT membership and HCPC fees
• Comprehensive clinical supervision programme
• Opportunities to develop management skills
• Extensive Employee Assistance Programme to support health and wellbeing
• 5 days of carer's leave per year
• Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
• A generous local government salary related pension
• 3 paid volunteering days per year

Main duties of the job

Your main duties in the role of Specialist Speech and Language Therapist will include:

• Clinical decision making in conjunction with school/college staff around the level of support needed to achieve the best possible outcome for the children and young people on your defined caseload
• Working with assistants, setting targets for the children and young people they are supporting, and monitoring of the delivery and outcomes of their work
• Assessment, advice and intervention for children with a range of speech, language and communication needs within your caseload
• Supporting junior members of the team, line managing others and taking on students

You will work in partnership with other colleagues to ensure a holistic and child centred approach to identifying and meeting children and young people's needs.

Some examples are:

• Providing training for magistrates and other court users
• Developing communication passports and sharing these with and training youth practitioners to use
• Working with the MDT working in Specialist schools for children with SEMH
• Contributing to the service clinical group case studies, data collection and service improvement for SEMH and Youth Justice
• Supporting the development and delivery of the annual service plan linked to the organisational aims and strategies

About us

The Surrey SLT service is a large team of therapists and therapy assistants working in mainstream and specialist provisions through primary, secondary and colleges, as well as working with our Youth Justice Team.

We have excellent supervision and CPD models plus a rolling in-house training programme; we are committed to continuous learning and development.

We are a forward thinking service and have been involved with the RCSLT and Reading University around the dysphagia competences linked to student placements and currently supporting with the rewriting of NQP competencies. There is close working with the Youth Justice team with additional support provided by their service.

The Service is part of the Inclusion & Additional Needs Team in Surrey's Children, Families and Lifelong Learning Directorate, and as such works collaboratively with other teams such as Educational Psychology, Specialist Teachers and SEN teams.

We aim to deliver the right support at the right time, through assessment and intervention; equipping families and professionals with the skills and resources to work together to support children with SLCN. We offer universal, targeted and specialist support for children, families and the school workforce; working with children and young people with EHCPs and those at SEN support following Surrey's Graduated Response. We also have a specialist dysphagia service and specialist deaf service.