Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

• Take your place with us providing highly specialist triage, assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment and discharge recommendations to a range of children and young people with speech, language and communication needs.
• You will assist in service development and innovation in consultation with managers and other team members.
• You will provide highly specialist support via clinical supervision, shadowing, mentoring and second opinions for the members of the team.
• You will liaise with the Team Lead about any issues in service delivery and develop plans to manage these.
• You will have excellent interpersonal skills to be able to communicate effectively with children and families, other team members and health and education staff.
• You will lead on service development using your highly specialist knowledge and skills. This will include the development of policies, processes and pathways to enhance quality of patient care, in liaison with the Team Lead.
• You will have excellent organisation and prioritisation skills.
• You will implement, monitor and evaluate new ways of working, including providing audits/ outcome and progress reports on new workstreams.
• You will have strong presentation skills and enjoy delivering training to the wider children's workforce about a range of communication difficulties, including developing, evaluating and adapting training packages.

Essential

• HCPC registration as a Speech and Language Therapist
• Successful completion of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists recognised training course (degree or equivalent)
• Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Specialist knowledge of range of disorders, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and their management appropriate to the post
• Established knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions at a specialist level
• Experience of working within a team and independently
• Experience of liaison with other professionals & partnership working
• Good working knowledge of all areas of clinical governance including quality, audit & risk management
• Advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills.
• Ability to present information in a clear & logical manner.
• Proven organisational skills including time management, effective delegation & prioritisation, and the ability to complete a task.
• Self-motivated and able to lead and motivate others within a team.

Desirable

• Member of relevant specialist interest group
• CPD and experience in complex needs
• Research & Development awareness &/or experience
• Audit Experience own & others practice
• Contribution to service and staff development
• Previous experience undertaking a senior clinical role