Description
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust Children's Speech and Language Therapy Service are looking for a band 6 therapist to join our large, diverse, and supportive team on the school-aged pathway. We serve the South-East London Borough of Lewisham, as part of the Community Health Service for Children, Young People and Families (CCYP) rated at 'Outstanding' in our last CQC inspection.
In this post you will work across our special schools and mainstream core and traded pathways providing universal, targeted and specialist support to your own caseload of schools. With 2 days per week at Watergate Special School for children with severe learning disabilities (primary) and 3 days per week in the mainstream core/traded pathway.
Job Responsibilities:
- Accountable to Therapies Manager
- To contribute to the School Aged team in developing, testing out and implementing new ways of working
- To ensure that the service provided is integrated (within the relevant multi/uni disciplinary care pathways), evidence based and delivered in accordance with care pathways/protocols and responsive to the needs of the local population
- To assess, diagnose, manage and evaluate outcomes for children and young people presenting with a range of speech, language, communication difficulties some of which may be highly complex
- The post holder will hold an area of special interest within the profile of the clinical caseload
- To develop, implement and evaluate specialist teaching packages within the clinical caseload
Person Specification:
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
- Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
- Registration as a member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Able to demonstrate post-qualification experience working with children with a wide range of speech, language and communication needs
- Experience of collaborative working with education staff and parents
- Experience of training others
- Experience of working with children with complex needs including severe learning disabilities, Autism Spectrum Disorder, physical disabilities, sensory difficulties, profound and multiple complex needs