Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

You would be required to complete the following duties

Working within a multidisciplinary team of speech therapists and occupational therapists, the post holder will have the opportunity to work in local schools and colleges across the 4 years to 25 years age range or with a smaller age range within this.

Advising and supporting local schools / settings with children and young people with Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SLCN) including a possible cohort with ASD or PMLD and SLCN; to manage their caseload to ensure that intended outcomes are delivered within agreed service standards.

Raising awareness of the needs of and strategies available for children and young people with SLCN.

Working within a multidisciplinary team of speech

therapists and occupational therapists, the post holder will have the

opportunity to work in local schools and colleges across the 4 years to 25

years age range or with a smaller age range within this.

Advising and supporting local schools / settings

with children and young people with Speech, Language & Communication Needs, including a possible cohort with ASD or PMLD and SLCN to manage their caseload to

ensure that intended outcomes are delivered within agreed service standards.

Raising awareness of the needs of and strategies

available for children and young people with SLCN.

Principal Accountabilities

Visiting and assessing children and young

people with SLCN.

To appropriately identify service provision in

line with child and young persons needs at specialist, targeted or universal

level of support.

Delivery of specialist programmes on an

individual and/or small group basis.

Offering advice to parents and carers as well

as teaching staff at a targeted or universal level.

Maintaining children's and young peoples

records to a high standard.

Screening and prioritising new referrals in order to

determine the need and level of therapy provision required in line with service

criteria.

At the point of

referral, gathering relevant information regarding previous and current input

from health and social care services.

Carrying out a

range of non-standardised and standardised assessments and interpreting a range

of factors relating to the child or young persons condition; focusing on

access to education.

Providing reports

to referrers and other agencies involved in the child and young person's care and

advice on appropriate differentiation of and access to the curriculum.

Plan,

create and deliver a wide range of tailored interventions and-or therapy

programmes where direct SaLT input is indicated and effectively hand over

prescribed programmes through training and modelling with teaching staff,

parents and carers.

To maintain effective liaison with all partners

e.g. parents, carers, professionals in Education, Health, Social Care and other

Services with particular regard to Safeguarding and best practice

To

monitor and record child or young

persons progress and effectiveness of intervention

through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice and to

communicate these with key stakeholders.

Collaboration with a range of partner agencies to

create effective transition support for specific children and young people.

Promotion of effective inclusion of children and

young people into all aspects of the school curriculum.

To attend and contribute to team meetings as

required.

To be aware of changing trends in treatment and

promote Evidence Based Practice, embedding this into own specialist area of

work in order to provide the highest standard of care to service users.

Embedding legislative change and key developments

relating to improved outcomes for children and young people with SLCN.

To participate in clinical audit, service

development activities and research programmes as required.

To engage with continual professional development

as identified through managerial and clinical supervision and appraisal,

including attending training and courses as agreed.

To comply with the Cognus Limited mandatory

training requirements.

As part of the therapies team to plan, deliver and

evaluate training sessions for schools and educational providers.

Cognus

Therapies are a thriving multidisciplinary team of speech and language

therapists, occupational therapists, teachers, practitioners and therapy

assistants who support children and young people aged 4 25 years in

mainstream schools, colleges, and specialist settings within the London Borough

of Sutton and surrounding boroughs. We work with children and young people with

a variety of special educational needs, e.g. Autism, Deafness, Down Syndrome,

Developmental Language Disorder, PMLD, MLD, Dyslexia and many more and

encourage all our therapists to gain experience and expertise across a range of

specialisms.

Qualifications

Skills

Experience