Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

at  Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

To provide assessment, diagnosis and management to children within the designated caseloads, providing highly specialist care plans. To provide advice to other professionals and parents in order to support the needs of children with speech, language and communication delay and disorder in specialist area. To provide advice to other professionals and parents in order to support the needs of children with Eating and Drinking difficulties. To organise caseloads within the scope of the highly specialist post advising the SLT Service Manager of shortfalls and difficulties as they arise.
To negotiate with parents, carers and others Multi-Disciplinary tteam members around individual case management, demonstrating compassion and empathy alongside well developed negotiation skills and management of conflict. To be responsible for administration and record keeping conforming to Departmental and Trust regulations concerning the format and security of patient records and the Data Protection Act. To be aware of, and adhere to, legal requirements relating to the provision of a Speech and Language Therapy Service and of procedures relating to Child Protection. To recognise own professional boundaries and seek advice and support as appropriate.
To lead in the development of innovative practices, projects and therapy packages in specialist area in collaboration with SLT Service Manager To participate in the development of Team and Service clinical policies and plans as directed by SLT Service Manager. To provide timely and accurate statistics as required by the Department. k) To provide appropriate and timely reports and other client related correspondence, according to service standards and requirements of other agencies. Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for more detail

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