Ireland Job Openings

Down Syndrome Ireland

Speech and Language Therapist

Castletroy

FULL TIME

September 19, 2024

The Limerick branch of Down Syndrome Ireland requires a Speech and Language Therapist to join their expanding team of professionals. The successful candidate will hold a caseload and will be responsible for the co-ordination and some delivery of the Speech & Language Therapy service, alongside a team of Senior Speech & Language Therapists, for the Limerick branch of Down Syndrome Ireland.

A mixture of direct and indirect therapy will be required. The successful candidate will gain experience working with all age groups, from birth to adulthood. Linking in with pre-schools, schools and adult training centres will be essential.
Our talented and passionate therapists provide a wide range of support including:

Attention and Listening Skills
Introducing and using AAC systems including manual sign (Lamh), paper based and high tech approaches
Speech sound approaches- articulation, phonological, motor speech, prosody and rate
Language work approaches - vocabulary, grammar, sentence building, narrative, questions, social language and literacy
Fluency work / Stuttering

This is a great opportunity for a recently qualified SLT to join a nationwide team and develop their career and progress as a therapist with the support of an experienced therapists who can provide peer supervision, training and support.

Duties & Responsibilities

Collaborate with service users, families, carers and other professionals in goal setting and intervention planning in an efficient and timely manner whilst ensuring a holistic approach.
Be responsible for assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation and evaluation of intervention programmes for service users
Deliver a range of therapeutic models appropriate to the client population.
Generate and manage documentation in respect of assessments, diagnoses, intervention plans, and clinical notes
Being innovative in the use of resources to maintain and enhance service delivery standards.
Working collaboratively and in partnership with families, schools and other service providers.
Maintaining standards of service delivery in line with policy, CORU guidelines and relevant legislation.

Qualifications & Experience:
Essential:

Recognised qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
Current CORU registration
Current IASLT membership
A minimum of one years' experience working as a Speech & Language Therapist

Desirable:

Experience of assessment and therapy for children and adults with Down syndrome and/or people with autism spectrum disorder is an advantage
Experience of Lamh and other Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC)
Telehealth
Hanen It Takes Two to Talk and More than Words
DIR Floortime
Own transport and full clean driving licence.

Hours of work & location:
This is a fulltime, 16 month fixed term contract, working 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with flexibility required for evening work and Saturday hours. Our branch location is Castletroy business centre and a satellite service in Newcastlewest.

Benefits:

25 days annual leave
Additional paid sick leave
Employee Assistance Programme
Onsite parking
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