Speech and Language Therapist

Islington Additional Needs and Disability Service provides a multi-agency team approach to working with babies, children and young people who present with additional needs and complex disabilities. We are looking for an experienced, dynamic and highly motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join this service, who is able to work sensitively with children and young people and who is committed to family centred practice. The post holder will work in the multidisciplinary and multi-agency environment including working with specialist teachers, social workers, therapy assistants, psychologists, dieticians, paediatricians, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and other professionals. The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for organising and managing a defined caseload of children. They are responsible for delivering a comprehensive and specialist service to children and young people who have special educational needs that may include Autism, Down\’s syndrome and social and emotional difficulties. The majority of children use a form of AAC including Makaton signing, paper based or powered communication aids. The service provides universal, targeted and specialist interventions, and includes assessment, liaison, and direct and indirect intervention for individual/groups of children and young people, working within the MDT. The post holder will devise and provide individualised care plans that are evaluated via outcome measures. They will employ specialist communication strategies used with the client group as appropriate. They will have knowledge of the school curriculum in order to ensure that the child\’s treatment programme is dovetailed with the curriculum in the child\’s educational environment. They will liaise with educational colleagues in order to undertake joint planning and reviewing of targets, production of reports, and staff training.