This is an exciting opportunity to join a developing multi agency team comprising Paediatricians, Clinical Psychology, Speech & Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy. This new team is hosted within the Children & Young People Service (CYPS) Directorate and education colleagues to enable multi agency care planning.

We are looking for a dynamic, efficient and motivated team member who has experience working as part of an MDT providing evidence-based autism and/or ADHD assessments and/or interventions in line with NICE guidance. Evidence of effective partnership working with education and health colleagues is essential. The successful candidate will have strong clinical skills and extensive experience in tailoring interventions and care plans to young people's needs. The successful candidate will have experience of differential diagnoses within their area of speciality that might include mental health, complex language profiles and sensory differences.

You would be part of a wider group of clinicians working with Children and Young People who meet regularly to offer CPD, peer support, share research ideas and clinical practice, and to drive forward quality improvement initiatives.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will

• Be able to confidently communicate a child's needs within multi-disciplinary arenas, and take an active role in both diagnostic decision making and needs planning.
• Be able to demonstrate good knowledge and skills around assessment and differential diagnosis, with experience of working with children, young people and families and those with Autism
• Be able to demonstrate understanding of ADHD, or a willingness to learn more about this.
• Be confident in interpreting and analysing complex and/or sensitive information to a wide range of audiences, to drive continuous improvement and support service development.
• Be able to develop and maintain close links with a range of local services.
• Offer high quality clinical supervision and consultation to a range of professionals.
• Have expertise in delivering quality improvements.
• Have extensive experience of multi-disciplinary, multi-agency work.

About us

We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:o 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users o 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work o 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority o 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our peoples skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

• Diploma/degree in Speech and Language Therapy
• Registered with HCPC

Desirable

• Further training in ASC and neuro diversity or ability to undertake this
• Motivational Interviewing training.
• Post graduate course in sensory processing.

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Postgraduate relevant clinical experience, with a proportion of that experience gained working with Children and Young people with ASC
• Extensive experience of working with children with ASC/LD
• In-depth knowledge of co-morbid mental health presentations in relation to ASC/LD children.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with significant mental health issues.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience of adaptations required to ensure evidence based interventions are accessible for neuro-diverse children and young people.
• Demonstrate extensive experience and clinical expertise regarding assessing and managing children and young people with high clinical risk needs.

Desirable

• Demonstrate experience of highly specialist professional consultancy and training to partner agencies
• Demonstrate experience and expertise regarding delivering ASC/neurodiversity related clinical supervision and consultation to a range of staff.

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Evergreen House

Charlton Lane

Cheltenham

GL53 9DZ

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327-24-1104