Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Paediatrics
- Kent
- £30.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- This opportunity provides the ideal platform for professional growth in a fulfilling role, where you can expand both your clinical expertise and your professional network.
- Flexible shifts mean you can balance your personal and work life with ease, allowing you the freedom to pursue personal interests or family activities.
- Join a vibrant work environment where support and teamwork are at the forefront, fostering an encouraging atmosphere that propels you towards achieving your career goals.
- Experience the variety and challenge each day brings, broadening your skills and making a real difference by impacting young lives positively.What you will do:- Independently assess, diagnose, and manage complex speech, language, communication, and eating and drinking difficulties in children and young people.
- Devise, implement, and review highly specialised, evidence-based therapy programmes tailored to individual needs, ensuring interventions are person-centred and outcome-focused.
- Use a range of formal and informal assessment tools to evaluate communication and swallowing abilities, including paediatric dysphagia assessments.
- Monitor progress, modify interventions as necessary, and maintain accurate, confidential clinical records and reports, including those for statutory assessments and educational health care plans (EHCPs).
- Provide second opinions and specialist advice to colleagues and other professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
- Manage a complex caseload effectively, prioritising cases and ensuring timely service delivery.
- Provide clinical leadership within the team, including case allocation, supervision, mentorship, and support for junior therapists and SLT trainees.
- Chair team or hub meetings and contribute to service development, clinical governance, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
- Support recruitment, staff development, and training, including delivering specialist training to staff, parents, and external agencies.
- Lead on inter-agency and multidisciplinary projects, fostering collaborative working relationships with education, health, social care, and families.
- Communicate complex clinical information clearly and sensitively to children, families, carers, and professionals, facilitating shared decision-making.
- Work in partnership with parents, schools, and other professionals to support children's communication and feeding needs across settings, including home visits where necessary.
- Provide advice and training to carers and educational staff to enable effective implementation of therapy programmes and ongoing support.
- Attend and contribute to professional and multidisciplinary meetings, including educational tribunals and statutory assessment panels as required.
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of current research, best practice guidelines, and national policies relevant to paediatric speech and language therapy.
- Engage in continuous professional development to meet the standards of the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and
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