Children's Speech and Language Therapist

Are you a compassionate Speech and Language Therapist looking to make a real difference in the lives of children and young people? Join our friendly, supportive, and highly experienced multidisciplinary team as a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist, specialising in autism and neurodevelopmental assessment. Working across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire, you'll play a key role in delivering high-quality autism assessments and supporting children, young people, and their families throughout their journey.

You'll collaborate closely with a range of professionals, contributing your specialist communication expertise to ensure the best possible outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to manage a specialist caseload independently while undertaking a varied and rewarding role. You will use your clinical knowledge and experience to assess, advise, and support children and young people with complex needs, providing expert guidance to families, carers, and partner agencies.

We are committed to helping our staff thrive. As part of our team, you'll benefit from regular clinical supervision, excellent continuing professional development opportunities, and a supportive leadership structure that encourages growth and innovation.

Main duties of the job:

• To carry out social communication observations and assessments in a clinic, educational settings or home setting.
• To undertake ADOS assessments (if/when trained) for children and young people up to the age of 18 years (early years and school age).
• To carry out assessment of children with complex social communication presentations as part of a multi-professional team providing specialist clinical advice.
• To write contributions to diagnostic multidisciplinary reports and EHCP reports.
• To carry out formal language assessments and interpret these results.
• To take the lead where appropriate in feeding back assessment and diagnostic results to parents and young people.
• To support other Speech and Language therapists and other professionals including Specialist Nurses, Paediatric Registrars, Early Years Practitioners and Psychology Assistants working as part of the ASD assessment team.

We welcome and encourage all applicants. We are committed to having a workforce that reflects the communities we support and are proactively seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce. We know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong.

Whether you're starting your journey in healthcare, looking for a fresh challenge within the NHS, or contemplating a career change, don't be daunted by the prospect of something different – we create development opportunities for all our colleagues and apprentices.

Qualifications and Training:

• Degree or equivalent in Speech & Language Therapy.
• Registered with HCPC.
• Post graduate training appropriate to the field.

Skills, Experience and Knowledge:

• Experience of carrying out formal language assessment with a wide age range.
• Ability to cover a wide patch if required.
• Experience of working with Children and Young People as a SALT.
• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner e.g., caseload management, prioritising cases, effective organisation and time management skills.
• Experience of working with Neurodivergent children and young people.
• Experience of Autism assessment.
• Knowledge of Autism and differential diagnosis.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.