Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitians
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 0 days (Bank)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (3 days a week)
- Job ref
- 343- 7633376-AHP-DNM
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community based, Green Wrythe Lane
- Town
- Carshalton
- Salary
- £29.74 - £47.58 Bank Rates depends on shift
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 05/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Paediatric Speech & Language Therapist - Band 7
NHS AfC: Band 7
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Job overview
The post holder will provide an evidence-based service that anticipates and responds to the needs of children with speech, language, communication and swallowing difficulties. They will work in partnership with children and their families’ and with other professions and agencies to reduce the impact of these difficulties on children’s social and emotional development, their learning and their ability to participate in daily life.
Main duties of the job
· To assess, diagnose, treat and manage a caseload of children with complex health and learning needs, with a focus on the management of eating and drinking difficulties for infants, children and young people from 0 to 18 years.
· To provide training as required to enable SLT programmes to be implemented as part of children’s therapy package.
· To provide support and training to enable eating and drinking programmes to be implemented as part of children’s therapy packages.
· To be involved in planning the development of the SLT service in liaison with the SLT Team Leader.
· To offer second opinions and advice to staff writing SLT statutory assessment advice.
· To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate.
· To work across agreed clinical populations, to manage the implementation of a service that is targeted to need, and supports and empowers families, to improve health and life chance outcomes for children, by giving every child the opportunity to develop their potential; ensuring early detection and referral of problems.
· To participate as a full member of the Sutton Health and Care SLT Team.
Please read the full job description for more information
Working for our organisation
To demonstrate a well developed knowledge of paediatric therapy for both eating and drinking and communication skills, underpinned by current evidence based practice.
· To manage a specialist and highly complex clinical caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
· To use and demonstrate highly specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements / decision making for complex case management and advise others on the same, often in the absence of robust evidence base.
· To make appropriate differential diagnoses and highly specialist clinical decisions based on assessment findings.
· To contribute to and when appropriate coordinate applications for AAC devices including funding requests.
· To work in partnership with the education SLTs to research and implement the use of AAC devices within school.
· To develop clear care plans and pathways based on best practice and to update these according to departmental standards.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To demonstrate a well-developed knowledge of paediatric therapy for both eating and drinking and communication skills, underpinned by current evidence based practice.
· To manage a specialist and highly complex clinical caseload as an autonomous practitioner.
· To develop the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
· To use and demonstrate specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for complex case management and advise others on the same, often in the absence of robust evidence base.
· To make appropriate differential diagnoses and highly specialist clinical decisions based on assessment findings.
· To develop clear care plans based on best practice and to update these according to departmental standards.
· To write reports reflecting specialist knowledge according to departmental standards.
· To provide appropriate specialist intervention based on evidence-based practice and to evaluate therapy using outcome measures.
Person specification
Professional Registation
Essential criteria
- Essential
Desirable criteria
- Essential
6 Months Experience
Essential criteria
- Essential
Desirable criteria
- Essential
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denica Mukasa
- Job title
- Recruitment
- Email address
- [email protected]
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