Specialist Paediatric Speech and Language Therapist

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of main responsibilities

Please ensure you demonstrate how you meet the essential/desirable criteria as part of your application.

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Relevant specialist experience post qualification e.g. autism, DLD population
• Experience of working with children with SEND in an educational or multidisciplinary setting (e.g. clinic, mainstream schools))
• Experience completing assessments and developing intervention plans

Desirable criteria

• Student supervision / clinical education
• Experience supervising junior staff e.g. therapy assistants, NQT
• Teaching experience of in-service programs

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language therapy
• HCPC registration

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses
• Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Knowledge and skills

Essential criteria

• Well established knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
• A working knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group
• Knowledge of a wide range of appropriate Augmentative and Alternative Communication aids for this client group
• Understanding the roles of other professional relevant to the client group
• Effective communication, monitoring, analysis and adaptation of interactions and responses within the assessment and therapeutic process

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Excellent interpersonal skills – including observation, listening and empathy skills, and ability to consider cultural diversity
• Negotiation and problem solving skills
• Very good prioritisation skills
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Ability to communicate complex information to others where there may be barriers to understand

Desirable criteria

• Leadership qualities

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