Children and young people's speech and language therapist

This post sits in the Merton Speech and Language Therapy team at Central London Community Healthcare, working with preschool children aged 2 to 5 who have speech, language and communication needs. The core of the work is assessing, planning and delivering interventions for a caseload, with support from senior colleagues, across clinics, homes and schools. What sets it apart is cross-team working across two community clinics, with access to senior expertise in speech disorders, dysfluency, AAC and dysphagia. Applicants must hold HCPC and RCSLT registration and a degree with an RCSLT licence to practise.

What the job involves

• Assess, diagnose, deliver intervention and discharge children on the caseload, with increasing independence
• Manage a preschool caseload, planning and delivering interventions in clinics, homes and schools
• Deliver speech and language therapy advice and treatment across Merton, with partner services
• Advise children, families and other professionals on clinical management
• Work with children, parents, carers and multidisciplinary staff across health, social services, education and children's services to agree clinical decisions
• Take accountability for own professional actions, recognise professional boundaries and seek senior advice where appropriate
• Keep accurate, contemporaneous clinical notes, intervention programmes and reports in line with service, RCSLT and HCPC guidelines
• Work flexibly across bases, including cross-team working

Qualifications

• Degree with a Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Registration & licences

• Current HCPC registration
• Current RCSLT membership

Experience

• Experience of working with children in clinics and/or school-based settings

Skills & knowledge

• Awareness of the needs of parents, teachers and others
• Highly developed auditory and perceptual skills, including good auditory discrimination and phonetic transcription
• Knowledge of child development, including speech, language, play and milestones
• Knowledge of assessments and interventions for speech, language and communication impairment, and their relative benefits for individual children
• Knowledge of education practice, policy and the National Curriculum, including national policies for school-aged children
• Understanding of religious, cultural and linguistic issues affecting caseload management

Other

• Manual dexterity for signing and for swallowing assessment equipment
• Able to maintain prolonged concentration for formal and informal assessments
• Awareness of the principles of audit
• Knowledge of professional standards of record keeping
• Understanding of the roles of other professionals and agencies, including those supporting school-aged children

Nice to have

• Training others
• Adult-Child Interaction (ACI), including its principles and models
• Experience of working with multi-cultural client groups
• Knowledge of clinical governance

What’s offered

• Competitive employment package
• Support for development and training

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