Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Autism

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to work with the Child Health Team based in Canterbury to be part of the ASD diagnostic team with an additional day offering SLCN assessment and interventions within the community.

We encourage an evidenced based, outcome focused approach to meeting the needs of our service users. We currently provide an ASD diagnostic service to children under the age of 8 years.

This post will be based at Green Banks Centre in Margate with the community day in Buckland Hospital, Dover. You will be responsible for providing an expert speech and language therapy opinion as part of the autism diagnostic process. You will be working predominantly with paediatricians but the post will also include some working with psychologists and specialist nurses. For the community day you will work within the integrated therapy team in Dover, predominantly working with early years children and much of this intervention will be with autistic children.

Clinics will be required on occasion in Canterbury.

You may also have some clinics where you will be providing an ADOS only appointment.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking:

Someone with at least 4 years previous experience working with children to include experience working within the field of ASD an effective registration with the Health Professions Council and have a professional degree in speech and language therapy a proactive, creative and highly motivated therapist a passionate and innovative individual a team player to join our existing friendly team Ability to travel round the locality may be required at times.

In return we offer:

In-service CPD as well as external training for critical course.

Access to department specialists and senior staff for advice and support and joint working. Monthly supervision Child Protection supervision 4 times per year.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with fivehospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Experience

Essential

minimum of 4 years paediatric post qualification experience with in-depth experience of autism

Qualifications

Essential

qualified SLT with HCPC registration and RCSLT membership

Desirable

ADOS trained

professional attributes

Essential

highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills