# Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Autism

**Company**: Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
**Location**: Watford
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £49387.00 to £56515.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Children and Young People's (CYP) Therapies at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust (HCT) are delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity for an experienced SLT wishing to take on the role of Highly Specialist SLT for Autism.

The role will involve supporting CYP with social communication differences and/or Autism and supporting CYP who are Neurodivergent, in need of assessment. It will also involve working as part of a wider multi-disciplinary team (MDT), undertaking specialist diagnostic assessment across a range of settings, including clinic, school and home.

The postholder will be based at Peace Children's Centre, Watford, supporting CYP/families/education settings within the local community. They will bring strong skills and experiences to the Multidisciplinary Assessment Team and to our community service.

Main duties of the job:

- To provide highly specialist speech and language therapy support for CYP with social communication differences and/or Autism.

- To provide assessment and diagnosis to CYP referred for Autism assessment as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and provide supportive information to parents/carers and professionals.

- To work autonomously and provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy leadership and clinical expertise.

- To be a specialist resource to support and develop the skills and expertise of community therapists and the wider children's workforce through training, joint working and providing professional support for less experienced staff.

- To provide evidence-based intervention plans and management programmes as part of child centred service delivery.

- To demonstrate knowledge of SEND reforms and EHCP planning.

- To demonstrate Neuroaffirmitive practices.

Benefits:

- Regular group professional supervision and peer support.

- Regular managerial supervision and a well-established appraisal system.

- Internal and external CPD opportunities such as bitesize tutorials, peer review, CENs.

- A 2 week induction period where you will have the opportunity to observe and shadow colleagues across a range of clinical areas/settings.

- Regular meetings with Clinical Quality Leads and Operational Leads to plan and implement service delivery and service development.

The salary for this role is £49,387 to £56,515 per annum pro rata.

## Skills

### Required
- Autism Assessment
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Neuroaffirmitive practices
- SEND reforms
- EHCP planning

### Nice to have
- ADOS-2 Trained

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