Job Title: Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist – Band 7 Area: Cambridgeshire NHS Salary: £negotiable Job Type: Locum Contract length: Ongoing Job details: Highly specialist SaLT required to start asap for a minimum 3 months. Face to face role. Duties: Speech and language therapy in Luton specials schools including AAC and dysphagia. JD available on request: the post holder will provide highly specialist clinical input to the special schools in Bedfordshire. They will have day-to-day responsibility for coordinating a speech & language therapy service to special school children and independently manage the caseloads in these settings. They will:
Use highly specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of children with complex difficulties in speech, language, communication and/or eating and drinking (dysphagia) and AAC.
Identify, assess, and diagnose communication/swallowing impairments and determine appropriate intervention for effective treatment.
To assess children and provide written recommendations and ongoing support for implementation, for class teams.
Attend and provide reports to Annual Reviews/Multi Agency Meetings as appropriate.
Provide Communication Support and advice in relation to functional communication, to support teaching and learning.
Demonstrate specific speech and language therapy support programmes and the use of equipment to specific teachers or groups of staff.
Provide guidance and whole school training in relation to functional communication including receptive, expressive, and interactional skills.
To contribute to relevant research, audit, and development work within the schools, relating to the Speech Language and Communication curriculum.
To attend relevant meetings as required within school or as part of wider SLT team.
Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Flexible hours. Code: U.014003.B11566
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