Salary: £28,411.5- £45,000 depending on experience Hours: 37.5 hours per week. Part time or term time only will be considered.

Accountable to: Stakeholders. Directors. Line managed by SEN Lead SLT.

Location: Bolton: at a school providing education for children aged 3-19 with learning disabilities and/or complex needs.

Purpose: To maximise communication potential for children and young people through direct and indirect assessment and intervention. Contributing to success of the SLT team.

Articulates with: Executive Director. Leads and Senior team members. Wider team. Will work in partnership with families, the workforce within the locality and commissioners.

Essential requirements

• Speech and Language Therapy Degree or Masters

• Experience working with children who have complex needs, their families and the Multi-agency team

• Registration with RCSLT and HCPC

• Respect for confidential information

• Enhanced DBS applied for by the company following appointment

Desirable requirements

• Motivation to work with children who have complex needs within educational settings

• Skilled at giving and receiving positive and critical feedback to colleagues

• Training relevant to client group e.g. PECS, Elklan Total Training package for children and adults with ASD / 0-25 with complex needs

Core responsibilities.

• To provide a speech and language therapy services to children, directly and through support to their families and the multi-disciplinary team

• Provide speech, language and communication assessments for pupils / prospective pupils in consultation with the multi- disciplinary team and other SLTs and SLTAs • Keep accurate records and provide written reports

• Set targets for therapy and monitor progress

• Provide intervention on an individual or group basis as required

• Develop and demonstrate SLT programmes and groups for pupils

• Hold responsibility for own caseload, working without direct supervision

• Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to the planning, development and delivery of an effective and efficient service

• To liaise with other involved agencies and with families to provide an integrated service

• Support SLT student placements

• Contribute to the induction of others in the SEN and wider Education team

• Will facilitate clinical case discussions

• Will access clinical supervision within the team via regular meetings, supervision, mentoring and appraisals

• Will be committed to continuing their professional development

• Able to make independent decisions about caseload management

• Support the delivery of training programmes to others and contribute to the development of training

• Contribute to the evaluation and monitoring of services

Person specification

• Enthusiastic about making a difference to children through a consultative SLT model

• Highly skilled communicator both face to face and written

• Value working within a team and with people

• Capable of working both independently and collaboratively

• Able to be flexible and adapt to change

• Able to inspire, support, skill, praise and provide feedback to others

• Capacity for organised and flexible work

• Respect for other roles within children’s workforce, styles and approaches

• Good theoretical knowledge base and commitment to evidence based practise

• A commitment to provide effective services and continued improvement

• Able to reflect, learn and change within every day work and during continuing professional development