Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to work collaboratively with the Early Childhood Development Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT.) We are looking for a Band 6 Senior Speech and Language therapist to join our pathway. This Pathway helps babies and children aged under 5 in Devon (excluding Plymouth) with severe delay or differences in multiple areas of their development.

The MDT includes

• Clinical Psychologists
• Occupational Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Early Years Practitioners
• Paediatricians 

The Team provide multi disciplinary assessment and intervention support in line with the Thrive model for pre school age children (pre starting Reception) presenting with significant developmental delay in at least two or more areas. This must include cognition, play and communication. 

You would be responsible for providing  specialist speech and language therapy assessments and therapeutic interventions to children and their families who have been referred and accepted for getting help,
getting more help and getting risk support as identified in the I-Thrive model.  You will also work with more junior clinicians providing supervision and clinical supervision, and to assist with the co-ordination of the clinic caseload

Main duties of the job

To manage a caseload of children and young people with complex Speech,
language and communication needs (SLCN), which may include speech,
language, communication difficulties, using evidenced based practice to assess, plan, formulate, implement and evaluate interventions in a variety of settings (individually and/or in groups and as part of a multidisciplinary team)
Working within a CFHD pathway of care, provide clinical support and supervision and across the designated pathways/s of care (these can include but are not limited to; Speech, Language and
Communication Pathway, Managing Neurodiversity Pathway, Community
Nursing, Physical and Sensory pathway and Vulnerable
Pathway)
To work with the Clinical Team Manager to co-ordinate the clinic and oversee the day to day caseload management
Participate in the provision of student placements.
To co-ordinate the team audit and monitoring of outcomes for interventions and report to locality lead
Using a strengths-based approach; ensure clinical effectiveness through the use of evidence-based interventions, goal-based, collaborative practice and routine outcome measures
To promote and support participation of service users across the service
Participate in clinical audits and clinical research as appropriate
To attend relevant training and development in order to maintain and develop skills and knowledge required of a specialist therapist working in the field of children, and maintain up to date HCPC and RCSLT registration

Working for our organisation

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) comprises an Alliance of NHS organisations working together to improve health outcomes for children and young people in Devon, including;

• Torbay and South Devon FT
• Devon Partnership NHS Trust
• Royal Devon and Exeter FT
• Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust
• Livewell South West

CFHD provides integrated care and treatment for children and young people which are provided by TSDFT and DPT. We are working closely with other organisations and providers to ensure we deliver locality and county-wide based integrated access to all of our services, based on the i-Thrive Framework, in response to consultation with our service users and communities.

Our integrated care and treatment has been developed and refined in partnership with children, young people and their families/carers.

Our children and young people say…

“We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure”.

Our vision is to be a successful, vibrant, partnership that benefits the communities we serve.

Why Work With Us