Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Job description

Senior Speech & Language Therapist Location: Ty Aberdafen Salary: £49,387 pro rata Hours: 21 hours per week Why join us? Brainkind has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Speech & Language Therapist to join our dedicated team at Ty Aberdafen. MAIN PURPOSE: To work as part of an multi/interdisciplinary team providing speech and language therapy (SaLT) input within the BIRT Neurobehavioural model to People We Support with acquired brain injury (ABI) and to lead on SaLT provision within the service. To liaise with internal and external professionals, family members and People We Support. MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - ​To apply the neurobehavioural approach to brain injury, demonstrating knowledge of current research findings, and best practice in the field. - To manage and prioritise a caseload of People We Support with complex mental/physical health needs and/or challenging behaviour. - To use evidence-based practice, service user centred principles and clinical reasoning to assess, plan, implement and evaluate intervention. - To undertake comprehensive assessments, considering environment, context and future plans, of People We Support in order to formulate appropriate o rehab...