Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

NHS; Exeter; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for full-time enthusiastic experienced B7 with a special interest in young people with Learning Disabilities to join our dynamic team of speech and language therapists to provide a high standard of Speech and Language therapy (SLT) service to children and young people within a community setting. The post is a County Wide post and can be based in any of our bases in Exeter, North Devon, South Devon, and Torbay.

Main duties of the job

1. Work within a CFHD pathway of care providing support to speech and language therapists across the Specialist Learning Disability pathway.
2. Screen and triage referrals and ensure a strengths-based approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to support the complex packages of care for children with additional needs in the community.
3. Contribute to risk assessment and care planning in collaboration with children, young people, and their carers.
4. Provide specialist SLT assessment, advice, and interventions to children, young people, and their families and to hold a caseload of children with complex needs.

About us

Why Work With Us

We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient, and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.

The core value of Children and Family Health Devon is that all staff will actively seek the views of children, young people, parents, and carers in a variety of ways and use this feedback to develop their own practice and support the development of the service as a whole.

Job responsibilities

Our clinical and county-wide services are specialist services consisting of a range of professions, including speech and language therapists, offering a wide variety of services from assessment and intervention to consultation, liaison, and training to children and young people with a range of conditions.

Provide case management of an identified caseload of children and young people with highly complex long-term conditions and complex needs by utilising and promoting evidence-based care and supporting supervisions across other CFHD pathways when required. This will also include children with complex needs including speech, language, communication, and/or eating, drinking, and swallowing difficulties.

Person Specification

• BSc or Diploma in Speech and Language
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of relevant CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to clinical area of expertise and/or postgraduate qualification
• Postgraduate leadership certificate
• MSc in relevant clinical area
• Membership of a professional body
• Specialist knowledge of a wide range of assessment tools relevant to a broad range of needs in the paediatric population
• Specialist knowledge and understanding around SEND

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.