Paediatric Speech Therapist
Mediplacements
- Hertfordshire
- £23.00-28.00 per hour
- Temporary
- Full-time
- Car driver and owner preferred.
- To provide assessment, diagnosis and specialist, evidence-based intervention to children referred for speech and language therapy, including providing information to parents, carers, teaching staff and other professionals
- To manage own caseload of children across a variety of settings including mainstream and specialist provisions
- To work within a multidisciplinary framework to provide a co-ordinated approach to children's speech, language and communication needs
- To advise and provide clinical support to other therapists
- To seek advice and supervision where appropriate
- To supervise and allocate work to Therapy Assistant Practitioners, SLT students and less experienced therapists
- To jointly supervise and monitor the implementation of specialist treatment programmes delivered by Therapy Assistant Practitioners and students and allocate tasks appropriately to them while retaining overall responsibility for the caseload, and for work undertaken by clinical support staff
- Delivers training sessions for student SLTs, work experience students, volunteers, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, teaching staff, other professionals, less experienced SLTs and parents and carers with the knowledge of senior SLT staff
- Contributes to the supervision and support of less experienced SLTs