Overview
You will be part of our friendly and welcoming team in Wiltshire Children's Services providing speech and language therapy support to pre-school and school age children with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties and their families, within the Wiltshire community.
You will also provide support, training and advice for families and other professionals.
Responsibilities
* To work independently, with responsibility and accountability to manage and prioritise caseloads of pre-school and school aged children with a wide range of speech, language and communication difficulties in the community
* To offer assessment and differential diagnosis of a childs communication difficulties through use of formal and informal assessment, specialist knowledge and consultation with parents and other professionals involved in their care
* To produce reports reflecting clinical knowledge regarding clients needs and summarising proposed care plans/target sheets for parents, carers, setting staff, and other professional colleagues, based on evidence. This may include production of reports for education, health and care plans
* To manage ongoing care as per service clinical care pathways
* To ensure a person-centred partnership in the management and care of children with speech, language and communication difficulties so that clients, their parents/carers and setting staff are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans/target sheets wherever possible as part of our collaborative approach. Demonstrate practical activities when appropriate, to increase their ability to implement the therapy programme, to ensure realistic expectations from therapy, and to facilitate their adjustment to the speech and language consequences of the communication difficulties and likely prognoses
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
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