Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

We are delighted to offer an opportunity to specialise in working with children with complex needs.  This post is suitable for a therapist with experience of working with children with complex needs or as a developing specialist post.

If you are a first-class clinician with strong communication and interpersonal skills and enjoy working flexibly within various teams, we would love to hear from you.

We are a friendly and supportive team committed to providing effective services to children and young people (CYP) in Peterborough.

With a strong ethos of clinical support and supervision, our dynamic team provides evidence-based advice, training and interventions to CYP, their families and education staff.

The Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy Service is a 0-19 service which assesses, supports, and provides therapy to children with speech, language, communication and feeding difficulties.  We aim to provide services at a universal, targeted and specialist levels.

Main duties of the job

The post holder could be responsible for the management of a specialist clinical caseload of preschool and school-age children with complex needs across a range of clinical settings, including special schools. Depending on service need the postholder may also hold a school age, speech and language caseload.

They will work independently with access to more senior colleagues as needed, be responsible for supervision of more junior colleagues and a first point of contact for the preschools and schools they are working in for the service.

This post is suitable for a therapist with experience in the specialism or as a developing specialist post.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Manages own time and prioritises workload 2.    Manages caseload within departmental standards 3.    Plans and delivers multi-agency training in consultation with lead therapist 4.    Identifies appropriate assessment, intervention and management of children with complex speech, language and communication needs 5.    Involved as a team in the assessment of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder 6.    Identifies needs of a specialist caseload 7.    Modifies clinical intervention based on outcomes and assessment findings 8.    Applies a range of communication strategies to support the child’s communication needs 9.    Communicates complex condition specific information to carers, teachers, teaching assistants and other professionals. 10.    Can be a member of multi-agency care teams

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

*DVLA have a number of reciprocal arrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website