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To communicate complex condition-related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions in a way that is accessible and easily understood. This will include facilitating strategies for people with communication disorders where barriers to understanding may exist
• To demonstrate empathy with clients, carers, families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to communication exist, or sensitive issues are being dealt with. Patient, carers and family will frequently have difficulty accepting the information provided
• To form productive relationships with others who may be under stress and/or have challenging difficulties
• To employ good presentation skills to promote multi-disciplinary and interagency liaison and collaborative practice to a broad range of audiences including other professionals and users
• To write reports reflecting knowledge of paediatrics that can be accessible to both lay and professional people
• To contribute to clinical pathways both multi and uni-professional by discussing own and others input around client’s needs, ensuring a well-coordinated care plan
• To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
• To demonstrate good negotiation skills across a range of issues

To demonstrate specialist Speech and Language Therapy knowledge across a range of therapeutic interventions
• To use knowledge and experience to inform sound clinical judgement/decision making for case management
• To integrate evidence from a variety of sources to make a differential diagnosis, seeking advice as appropriate
• To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and mentors and identify own strengths and development needs
• Acts as an autonomous professional
• Works within codes of practice as defined by Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and HCPC
• Works within organisational policies and procedures
• To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as appropriate
• To manage complex caseload independently. To monitor and evaluate own specialist service delivery and provide progress reports

To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities. Readjusting plans as situations change/arise
• To be responsible for the supervision and co-ordination of assistants on a daily basis
• To be responsible for the supervision of Band 5 staff on a regular basis

To be responsible for undertaking a range of formal and informal SLT therapy and holistic assessments and interventions where appropriate, negotiating functional goals with parents and school staff and provide modelling to enable successful implementation of programmes within the setting and home
• To use routine outcome measures and goal-based approach, collaboratively with service users, in ways that inform treatment and clinical care
• Work closely with clients, carers, and families agreeing decision making relevant to the patient/client management
• Co-produce specialist clear care plans based on best practice with children, young people and their families/carers
• Ensure care plans are written in an understandable format for the child, young person and their family/carer
• Provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy interventions including 1:1 / group therapy, parent/ carer-based interventions and consultancy/coaching mentoring within a range of community settings. Outcomes to then be evaluated.
• Demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures
• Screen and triage referrals and ensure a strengths-based approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions to support the complex packages of care for children with additional needs in the community.
• Ensure that all documentation and records are kept safe to ensure confidentiality as per the RCSLT and HCPC standards
• Promote self-advocacy and to act as an advocate for children, young people and their families.
• To always consider safeguarding and child protection issues, following relevant policies and procedures and receiving safeguarding supervision as required
• Produce reports on children/young people, in a timely manner, that convey the key findings of assessment and formulation and treatment outcome in a way that is understandable to the recipients of the reports, including children/young people and their families and referrers
• To advise line manager on issues of service delivery including shortfall, service pressures etc.
• To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT/HCPC professional standards and local trust policies

Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.