Senior Speech and Language Therapist (Experts at Hand

CFHD are looking to recruit a 1.0wte Speech and Language Therapist to provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy support within the Experts at Hand service through advice, consultation, modelling of strategies, training, and targeted intervention.

This position will be based in Torbay.

Please note we are also able to consider part time applications above 18.75 hours per week.

The post-holder will work as part of the multidisciplinary team and autonomously to support children and young people, families, and professionals by building capacity within early years, school and post-16 settings, delivering training, and offering time-limited direct interventions where indicated.

Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) is the place to be! We are developing an innovative, integrated model of children s community services and looking for enthusiastic individuals to join our friendly and dedicated locality and county-wide professional teams.

As a large community service, you will be joining a strong, enthusiastic and supportive group of professionals who will be your peers, your phone a friend network and your inspiring colleagues. This provides a real sense of professional collaboration at work, that will be an asset to your daily work, your career development and your support network.

• The speech and language therapy service within CFHD have transformed to work within the Balanced System framework.
• Manage a caseload of children and young people with Speech, language and communication needs (SLCN) 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
• Provide clinical support and supervision to the less experienced SLTs in the team
• 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
• 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
• Promote and support participation of service users across the service
• Participate in clinical audits and clinical research as appropriate