Speech and Language Therapist Senior Grade
Enable Ireland provides services to over 13,000 children and adults with disabilities and their families from 43 locations in 14 counties. Covering childhood to adulthood our expert teams work with the individual and their family on a plan for each life stage. Our services for children and their families cover all aspects of a child's physical, educational, and social development from early infancy through adolescence. For adults we offer a range of services covering personal development.
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Enable Ireland is an organisation that makes a real difference to the lives of children and adults with disabilities in Ireland, and is named as one of Ireland's Irish Independent 150 Best Employers 2024.
We are currently seeking a highly-motivated Senior Speech & Language Therapist to join our team in CHO8 Meath CDNT 4 Dunshaughlin / East Meath based in Bettystown.
Contract Details:
* Contract Type: Permanent Full Time
* Contract Hours: 35 hours per week (1.0 WTE)
* Salary Scale: €57,771 to €68,387 pro rata per annum. Salary scales are subject to LSI's (Long Service Increments)
* Annual Leave Entitlement: 33 days pro rata per annum and proportionately less for less than 12 months service.
Overview of the Post:
To work as a senior member of the interdisciplinary team providing services to children and families within the region. The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a speech and language therapy service to include assessment diagnostics and intervention, clinical and performance supervision and ongoing service delivery to children with a range of disabilities. Services are currently provided to children aged 0-18 years with physical, sensory, learning disabilities, developmental delay and autism. The role will include providing services to children in special schools.
The Successful Candidate Will Have:
* Be registered, or be eligible for registration, as a Speech & Language Therapist by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU (https://www.coru.ie/).
* Have 3 years full time (or an aggregate of 3 years full time) post qualification clinical experience.
* Provide proof of Statutory Registration on the Speech & Language Therapists Register maintained by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU before a contract of employment can be issued.
* Annual Registration: On appointment, practitioners must maintain annual registration on the Speech & Language Therapists Register maintained by the Speech & Language Therapists Registration Board at CORU.
* Be eligible to work in the state.
* Valid driving licence for within the state/jurisdiction with access to own transport in order to deliver services across a large geographical area.
* Post graduate training and experience in Management of FEDS Disorders.
* Relevant post graduate training specific to 0 – 18 years.
* Experience in conducting Assessment of Need.
* Relevant training and experience in the assessment and intervention of children with autism.
* Experience and/or training in clinical supervision.
* 3 years recent relevant post qualification experience which includes a minimum of 1 year post qualification experience of working with children with a range of disabilities/developmental delay and their families.
* Experience of working with children aged 0 – 18 years and their families.