- 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. For children and young people on your caseload who are considered to have complex needs and where a joint multidisciplinary approach is essential to achieving the best outcome for these children and young people, you will be supported by your clinical team leader
- 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.
- 42-week contract, term-time and an additional, flexible 15 days for CPD, project work and supervision activities as well as 10 weeks holiday in non-term time
- A team of students, therapists and assistants led by a Therapies Manager who is an SLT
- Comprehensive clinical supervision programme including a buddy, 1:1 extensive in house and external training programme, clinical effectiveness groups, case study groups, enhanced probation support, termly whole-team study days, encouragement to join and attend CEN's relating to practice
- Opportunities to develop management skills. Training and support is provided
- Paid RCSLT membership and HCPC fees
- Extensive Employee Assistance Programme to support health and wellbeing
- Up to 5 days of carer's leave per year
- Paternity, adoption and dependants leave
- A generous local government salary related pension
- 2 paid volunteering days plus 1 team volunteering day per year
Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Walton-on-Thames, United Kingdom - Surrey County Council
Description
Job summary
We can offer great opportunities to join our skilled, supportive and solution-focused team where you will develop the speech, language and communication skills of children with a range of clinical diagnosis. We are an expanding service with exciting career opportunities where posts can be mixed based on interests, including mainstream schools and colleges, specialist schools as well as developing a specialism in deafness or dysphagia.
Main duties of the job
Your main duties in the role of Specialist Speech and Language Therapist will include:
About us
About the Team
The Surrey SLT service is a large team working in mainstream and specialist provisions through primary, secondary and colleges, with some opportunities for a preschool caseload. We are a forward thinking service and were involved with the RCSLT and Reading University around the dysphagia competences linked to student placements.
We aim to deliver the right support at the right time, through assessment and intervention. We offer universal, targeted and specialist support for children, families, and the school workforce; working with children with EHCPs and those at SEN support following Surrey's Graduated Response. We also have a specialist dysphagia service and specialist deaf service.
The Specialist Service for deaf children
A team of Specialist SLTs provide an innovative Surrey wide service for school-aged deaf children and young people in mainstream schools and 5 Specialist Resource Bases. The team is also commissioned to support preschool deaf children who meet criteria.
The Specialist SLTs work in close collaboration with Advisory Teachers of the Deaf and a team of peripatetic Specialist Teaching Assistants, a Deaf Instructor, an Educational Audiologist and BSL Interpreters.
We have locally defined specialist competencies in relation to deafness with in-house clinical supervision, team meetings and shadowing to share knowledge and expertise of working in this field.
Job descriptionJob responsibilities
This role has a competitive starting salary of £39,325 per annum based on 36 hours per week across 42 weeks a year (equivalent Band 6 NHS post) pro-rata to £42,446 full-time equivalent.
Are you an enthusiastic, qualified Therapist with over 2 years' experience looking to develop your skills in working with school aged children? We have posts available across Surrey
Rewards and Benefits
Please contact us for any questions relating to the role. This could be to discuss flexible working requests, transferable skills or any barriers to employment.
The job advert closes at 23:59 on with interviews planned for the following week.
We look forward to receiving your application, please click on the apply online button below to submit.
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