Highly Specialised Speech & Language Therapist

Job overview

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Liverpool Enhanced Support Team (EST) and Youth Justice CAMHS are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our service.  The role is part funded by Liverpool Youth Justice Service.

The Enhanced Support Team works with children and young people with complex needs who present with high risk, high harm behaviours and high vulnerability. They are likely to have difficulties in multiple domains which are persistent, severe and are framed by family and social contexts. This may include children and young people who are involved in youth justice services, not in education employment or training, who engage in substance misuse, have multiple adverse childhood experiences, who are neurodiverse or have speech language and communication difficulties etc.  These children and young people are likely to have been referred to multiple services, but there are significant barriers to engagement

Liverpool Enhanced Support Team has links into Community CAMHS however is integrated with Childrens Services including Social Care and Youth Justice.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high quality speech, language and communication assessments to inform the multidisciplinary assessment
• To work with other professionals to plan and deliver multidisciplinary assessments to support speech, language and communication needs.
• To participate in multidisciplinary formulation meetings
• To  support the consultation and triage of new referrals into the service
• To support service development of assessment process and practice
• To provide advice and signposting to parents and professional at any stage of the assessment process
• To be available for advice, support and teaching of other therapists and external servies

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more details about duties and responsibilities.