Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Are you a compassionate Speech and Language Therapist looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Join our friendly, supportive, and highly experienced multidisciplinary team as a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in autism and neurodevelopmental assessment.

Working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality autism assessments and supporting children, young people, and their families throughout their journey. You'll collaborate closely with a range of professionals, contributing your specialist communication expertise to ensure the best possible outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to manage a specialist caseload independently while undertaking a varied and rewarding role. You will use your clinical knowledge and experience to assess, advise, and support children and young people with complex needs, providing expert guidance to families, carers, and partner agencies.

We are committed to helping our staff thrive. As part of our team, you'll benefit from regular clinical supervision, excellent continuing professional development opportunities, and a supportive leadership structure that encourages growth and innovation.

Main duties of the job

To carry out social communication observations and assessments in a clinic, educational settings or home setting

To undertake ADOS assessments (if/when trained) for children and young people up to the age of 18 years (early years and school age)

To carry out assessment of children with a complex social communication presentations as part of a multi professional team providing specialist clinical advice.

To write contributions to diagnostic multidisciplinary reports and EHCP reports

To carry out formal language assessments and interpret these results

To take the lead where appropriate in feeding back assessment and diagnostic results to parents and young people

To support other Speech and Language therapists and other professionals including Specialist Nurses, Paediatric Registrars, Early Years Practitioners and Psychology Assistants working as part of the ASD assessment team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities before applying for this position.

If you refer to qualifications or employment within your supporting statement, that has not been included in your Qualifications, Training or Employment History, this information may be discounted.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.