Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Stammering

Job overview

Are you looking for an opportunity to lead the stammering service in Bexley? If so come & join Bexley Children’s SLT Therapy team.  You will be an experienced & self motivated highly specialist SALT who enjoys working in a community clinic environment, with responsibility for delivery of assessment & intervention to stammering clients to 19 years. As well as supporting a small team of SLT colleagues, you will lead on care pathway,  training (both colleagues in the team & education colleagues), provide supervision & support across the SLT service, whilst demonstrating a track record of delivering evidence based interventions.

We offer both face to face & virtual appointments to children & young people who stammer & their families, & would consider applications from colleagues who may prefer a blended working pattern.

The Bexley Children’s SALT service is a dynamic & supportive team & we offer many opportunities for developing clinical skills through CPD. The service has excellent internal supervision & support structures & would provide the ideal environment to develop clinical & management skills & contribute towards operational projects to support service development.  We also offer extensive opportunities to work effectively with partners in health, social care & education.

Main duties of the job

For more information and a detailed description of the main duties please refer to the Job Description attached.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To demonstrate highly specialist assessment and intervention (both 1:1 and group) for stammering clients, underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
• To manage complex and highly specialist caseload independently and plan the workload of others, offering highly specialist support and second opinions to SLT colleagues.
• To make highly specialist clinical decisions in assessment of complex cases.
• To work in partnership with parents /carers, young people and education staff, to support them to develop their knowledge, skills, and confidence with regards their stammer.
• To meet with parents, child and young people, taking and responding to feedback to develop care pathways and the quality of child and parent information.
• To take a clinical specialist role in the development of local clinical guidelines informed by evidence for children and young people with stammering and Speech, Language and communication needs (SLCN).
• To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a highly specialist therapist and maintain up to date HCPC and RCSLT registration.
• To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional, National and Local Clinical Guidelines with particular reference to stammering and SLCN.
• To develop and deliver specialist training to parents, young people and professionals in specialist area.
• To keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in specialist area.
• To provide second opinions/advice to non-specialists and other specialists within clinical field.
• To demonstrate a sound working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance and their application to professional practice.
• To undertake team members’ Supervision and Personal Development Reviews.
• To be flexible to the demands of the environment including unpredictable work patterns, deadlines and frequent interruptions.