We are looking for a passionate speech and language therapist to work in the Hillingdon Early Years team supporting children and young people who have a speech, language or communication need.
You will be part of a supportive band 7 team - and take a lead in developing projects and supervising more junior staff. Have a look on our Hillingdon Talks, Moves and Plays website to find out about our wider service.
Responsibilities
* Provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service for children 0‑19 with Speech Language and or communication needs.
* Be part of the ADOS assessment team.
* Provide a highly specialist assessment and intervention service to children 0‑19 who have swallowing, eating and drinking difficulties.
* Support in the development of training packages to early years settings, staff / parents / other professionals, in order for them to identify concerns regarding the child /young persons needs and implement therapy advice effectively.
* Support the service to achieve Key Performance Indicators, maintaining Target Activity Levels and demonstrating impact re quality and outcomes.
* Lead on quality governance, audits and projects for the team/service.
* Be responsible for the performance management of identified team members.
* Support the team leader in the leading and development of the team.
* Be responsible with team leader support for service improvement initiatives.
* Develop and implement highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy intervention.
* Provide appropriate highly specialist intervention / assessment and evaluate outcomes.
* Demonstrate highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children 0‑19.
* Facilitate relevant professionals/parents to carry out speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice.
* Monitor the effectiveness of speech and language therapy programmes/strategies/advice being delivered by other relevant professionals/parents and adjust as necessary.
* Make a differential diagnosis, including complex cases, on the basis of evidence from assessment.
* Develop clear packages of care based on best practice and differential diagnosis and to use highly specialist clinical knowledge to inform case management.
* Demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
* Keep up to date with new techniques and developments for the promotion and maintenance of good practice in own highly specialist clinical area.
* Demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and supervisors and identify own strengths and development needs.
* Manage caseload independently and prioritise workload using highly specialist knowledge.
* Recognise potential breakdown and conflict when it occurs and seek to resolve using highly developed negotiation skills, seeking further support from team leader if necessary.
* Ensure that children / young people, their families and schools / nurseries are involved in the planning and implementation of their care.
* Maintain sensitivity to the emotional needs of children & their families, especially when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the child's difficulties and its implications.
* Attend case conferences & core group meetings for children / young people on the caseload, where appropriate.
* Submit safeguarding reports to case conferences and reviews.
* Record all concerns and discussions/supervision regarding safeguarding issues in Systmone clinical notes.
* Attend safeguarding supervision for all children / young people with a Child Protection Plan at least every 12 weeks.
* Provide safeguarding supervision (when trained) for team members on a rotational basis.
* Work independently and access clinical supervision sessions on a regular basis & actively contribute to own appraisal on an annual basis.
* Collate evidence of professional development related to the RCSLT CPD log.
* Demonstrate highly developed negotiation skills across a range of issues and negotiate with others around case management in highly complex cases.
* Deal with complaints sensitively avoiding escalation where possible, and inform the team leader in a timely fashion.
* Communicate highly complex information from assessments and ongoing therapy to children / young people, families and other professionals.
* Write outcome focused reports, and programmes/target sheets reflecting highly specialist knowledge which meet the needs of the child / young person.
* Support the development of, and adhere to, service plans and policies giving constructive feedback as appropriate.
* Advise team leader on issues of service shortfall or pressure.
* Assume delegated leadership responsibilities and tasks as requested by TL.
* Work within infection control and health and safety guidelines.
* Report all incidents in a timely fashion and access learning following incident investigation outcomes & complaints. Attend training to complete incident investigations.
* Support other team members in the reporting of incidents in a timely fashion.
* Work within legal frameworks including: SEND reforms e.g Statutory EHCP assessments, London safeguarding procedures and policies.
* Attend, contribute to and present at Team and Departmental meetings.
Benefits
* A buddy who will meet with you every week at first to help you settle in and who you can ask lots of questions.
* Regular supervision meetings with the team leader every 6 weeks, alongside annual appraisal and informal support.
* Termly peer supervision meetings where you can discuss difficult cases, read articles together and share your experiences.
* Regular meetings with the other band 7 mainstream team SLTs to ensure that the workload is being shared and support given.
* A busy but manageable caseload.
* Opportunities to develop your clinical and leadership skills and knowledge through termly study afternoons, shadowing more experienced therapists / leaders, membership of a CEN, training courses - clinical and leadership, etc.
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