Advanced Specialist SALT EAH CoordinatorNHS

Job summary

Are you looking for a new challenge and an opportunity to make a wider impact? We are looking for an experienced therapist who enjoys collaborating, problem solving and who wants to make a difference.

You will be working with our partners to help shape and coordinate the delivery of our new Experts at Hand service, bringing together specialist therapy expertise to support children, young people and education settings in new ways.

Main duties of the job

To independently assess and manage the speech language and communication needs of school age children in mainstream schools, clinics and their homes as required.In conjunction with the team lead coordinate therapists and Assistants working within the Experts at Hand model

Job description

Key Results Areas:

Responsibility for supporting the team lead in managing and coordinating the service in the locality

Responsibility for providing supervision to other Speech and Language Therapists working in the locality

Liaising with other agencies and professionals working with school age children with SLCN to provide effective and efficient coordinated support

Work with other locality coordinators and the Team Lead to develop the strategy for service improvement

Provision of training for other professionals and carers

CLINICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

To use highly developed interpersonal skills to:

Facilitate communication so that the needs of the young person are central to the process

Play a pivotal role in ensuring effective joint working for young people with communication difficulties.

To prioritise own work and manage own complex workload efficiently and effectively

To assess and analyse the communication environments within schools and use clinical knowledge to provide appropriate advice and training to school staff.

To assess and analyse speech, language, communication disorders in children with a range of needs, using specialist knowledge to select appropriate formal and/or informal assessments, including standardised psychometric tests and skilled observations.To negotiate with parents/carers and education staff to agree appropriate management for students which may include any combination of the following:Therapeutic intervention with children either individually or in groupsGroups run jointly with Teachers and Teaching Assistants (TAs)Programmes jointly planned and implemented with Teaching staffDirecting and supporting others in carrying out individual programmes (e.g. Parents, TAs, Speech & Language Therapy Assistants (SALTA) where appropriate)Providing advice on curriculum differentiation through liaison with TeachersProviding advice on specific strategies to employ in the classroomAdvising referral to other professionals where indicated.

About us

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.

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