Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist (Band 6) - Sherwood Park inWallington inWallington PUBLISHED 19 DEC 2023

JOB SUMMARY:

• Working within a multidisciplinary team of speech therapists and occupational therapists, the post holder will have the opportunity to work in local schools and colleges across the 4 years to 25 years age range or with a smaller age range within this.
• Advising and supporting local schools / settings with children and young people with Speech, Language & Communication Needs (SLCN) including a possible cohort with ASD or PMLD and SLCN; to manage their caseload to ensure that intended outcomes are delivered within agreed service standards.
• Raising awareness of the needs of and strategies available for children and young people with SLCN.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

To personally undertake a case load of referrals to include:

• Visiting and assessing children and young people with SLCN.
• To appropriately identify service provision in line with child and young persons needs at specialist, targeted or universal level of support.
• Delivery of specialist programmes on an individual and/or small group basis.
• Offering advice to parents and carers as well as teaching staff at a targeted or universal level.
• Maintaining childrens / young peoples records to a high standard.

Specific Duties:

• To advise and support school staff on the education of children and young people with SLCN including:
• Screening and prioritising new referrals in order to determine the need and level of therapy provision required in line with service criteria.
• At the point of referral, gathering relevant information regarding previous and current input from health and social care services.
• Carrying out a range of non-standardised and standardised assessments and interpreting a range of factors relating to the child or young persons condition; focusing on access to education.
• Providing reports to referrers and other agencies involved in the child/young persons care and advice on appropriate differentiation of and access to the curriculum.
• Plan, create and deliver a wide range of tailored interventions and/ or therapy programmes where direct SaLT input is indicated and effectively hand over prescribed programmes through training and modelling with teaching staff, parents and carers.
• To maintain effective liaison with all partners e.g. parents/ carers, professionals in Education, Health, Social Care and other Services with particular regard to Safeguarding and best practice
• To monitor and record child or young persons progress and effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measurement and evaluation of practice and to communicate these with key stakeholders.
• Collaboration with a range of partner agencies to create effective transition support for specific children and young people.
• Promotion of effective inclusion of children and young people into all aspects of the school curriculum.
• To attend and contribute to team meetings as required.

Training and Development Responsibility

• To be aware of changing trends in treatment and promote Evidence Based Practice; embedding this into own specialist area of work in order to provide the highest standard of care to service users.
• Embedding legislative change and key developments relating to improved outcomes for children and young people with SLCN.
• To participate in clinical audit, service development activities and research programmes as required.
• To engage with continual professional development as identified through managerial and clinical supervision and appraisal, including attending training and courses as agreed.
• To comply with the Cognus Limited mandatory training requirements.
• As part of the therapies team to plan, deliver and evaluate training sessions for schools and educational providers.

Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist Education

Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Term Time Only or Full time: 37 hours per week

Salary: Cognus Band 3 to 4, £42,301.88 to £50,245.12 (1 FTE) including HCAS

Locations: London Borough of Sutton, Sherwood Park School, Sherwood Park Campus

Are you looking for a job in paediatric practice?

Do you want to be part of a large trans-disciplinary team of dedicated teaching staff, occupational therapists, speech & language therapists and wellbeing practitioners helping children aged 4-19 years with complex needs?

Do you have a passion for working with children, a growth mindset and are confident, enthusiastic, calm, and adaptable? We welcome you to apply to join our team.

We have an exciting opportunity for a
Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist
to join our therapy team.

About us:

Sherwood Park School prides itself on its individualised, trans-disciplinary approach to learning; with the child/ young person and their family at the heart of our practice. We are dedicated to using strengths based, relationship focused, person-centred practices to support the learning and growth of our pupils. We aim to create a school culture and learning environment that facilitates the active engagement and participation of our learners, using motivating and meaningful activities that support the development of regulation, communication, social skills, cognitive abilities and life skills in preparation for adulthood.

The ideal candidate will have:

• A wish to work with children of all ages with highly complex needs
• A growth mindset
• Confidence, enthusiasm and a passion for learning.
• The ability to work as part of an integrated team of professionals

Therapists will be employed by Cognus Limited and be a part of the Cognus Therapies Team who are delivering the provision for special educational needs within the London Borough of Sutton.

Cognus Therapies is a thriving multidisciplinary team of Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, and Therapy Assistants who support children and young people in schools, colleges, bases and specialist provisions within the London Borough of Sutton and surrounding boroughs.