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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Fluency Disorders
| Posting date: | 06 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £37,338 to £44,962 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £37338 - £44962 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 March 2025 |
| Location: | Chester Le Street, DH3 3AT |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9439-2425-1533 |
Summary
1. Generate appropriate strategies to manage an individual specialist caseload including the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and discharge of a diverse range of clients with fluency disorders with support and supervision from a lead clinician. 2. Develop and implement specialist care protocols and programmes of care and treatment, to meet the needs of clients in conjunction with their parents, carers, education staff and other members of the appropriate multi-disciplinary team (MDT) with support and supervision from a lead clinician. 3. Independently manage and negotiate the management of complex cases with others e.g. onward referral to highly specialist clinicians or other specialist support agencies e.g. consultants, Educational Psychologists. 4. Provide specialist education, training and supervision to speech and language therapy assistant practitioners and to speech and language therapists with less experience in the management of the client group, with appropriate supervision from the clinical lead. 5. Provide specialist advice and second opinions to less experienced colleagues. 6. Continually evaluate the effectiveness of care protocols and packages of care, audit and implement changes as appropriate in conjunction with lead clinician/line manager. 7. Evaluate the effects of the communication difficulty on the psychological health of the client. 8. Work with the lead clinician(s) to develop and coordinate service provision and policy development for the client group.