Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Autism Team Lead
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 21 Gorffennaf 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £53,751.00 i £60,651.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £53751.00 - £60651.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 04 Awst 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Erith, DA8 3EE |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9277-25-0900 |
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Provide highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention to children and young people with Autism and other types of speech language and communication needs. To demonstrate and update knowledge of the Early Years and school age curriculum to enable effective goal setting. To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a highly specialist therapist and maintain up to date HCPC and RCSLT registration. To provide mentoring, advice and support to other Speech and Language Therapists, and assistants to ensure consistency of management for clients. Provide student placements, including assessment of the placements as appropriate. To provide second opinions and specialist advice to other Speech and Language Therapists/other professionals to ensure consistency of management for children and young people with Autism. To explain the role of Speech and Language Therapists to visitors, students and volunteers. To co-ordinate support of students from other professional groups as appropriate within the team. To raise training needs within the team and plan and implement opportunities to meet those needs. To ensure dissemination of information related to up-to-date research within specialist area to relevant team members. To contribute to/manage the recruitment of new staff. To advise other colleagues on a range of clinical issues and facilitate their own problem-solving skills, both within the service and with external professionals and groups. To employ presentation skills to promote interagency liaison and collaborative practice to a broad range of audiences, including Head Teachers, SEN Officers and other Specialist Teams and other professionals. To contribute to the management of complaints and incidents, embedding learning where appropriate. To attend Autism working groups and service development forums, undertaking delegated projects. Leading internal meetings within clinical field. To monitor and evaluate own specialist service delivery and the service delivery or others working within the specialist field, and provide progress reports to co-ordinator, manager, and commissioners as appropriate. To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate. To work independently accessing appraisal within an Individual Performance Framework at pre-determined intervals. Clinical To assess, develop and implement Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapy provision for children with social communication differences, Autism. To write reports reflecting highly specialist knowledge including Education, Health and Social Care plans and Tribunal reports. To provide appropriate highly specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To provide advice/second opinions to others regarding the management and care of children and young people with autism. To provide specialist clinical technical skills for interpretive techniques and interventions. To adapt practice to meet individual client circumstances. To use highly specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management. To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of clients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from assessment seeking advice as appropriate. To develop clear highly specialist management plans together with child/parent/education staff based on best practice. To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers, mentors and Line Manager and identify own strengths and development needs. To attend specialist short courses and advanced training in the areas of Autism, SLCN and mental health. See JD for more details