Jacqueline S.

Details

Job Title: Advanced Practice Speech and Language Therapist

Company Name: NHS Forth Valley

Start Date: 04/2024

Finish Date: Present

Job Summary: As a Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) working within a Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS) in Scotland, my role involves assessing, diagnosing, and treating children and young people with speech, language, and communication difficulties, often linked to mental health conditions such as anxiety, trauma, and neurodevelopmental disorders. I work jointly with multidisciplinary teams, providing assessment and diagnosis and consultation to colleagues to help enhance their knowledge and skills of supporting SLCN of their clients. I have helped grow awareness of the SLT role in CAMHS through providing staff training and auditing to make the service communication friendly.

Skills

Over 12 years of experience as a SLT, working across CAMHS, prisons, and community paediatric settings.
Experienced in assessing, diagnosing, and treating speech, language, and swallowing disorders, including dysphagia.
Recently ADOS-trained (Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule), with a strong focus on working in a neuro-affirmative way throughout assessment and diagnosis.
Skilled in co-creating and implementing individualised treatment plans based on thorough assessments.
Further training completed in developmental trauma and the social, emotional, and mental health needs that often relate to language and communication differences.
Further training completed in supporting people who stammer, including Palin SFBT course.
Strong communication and interpersonal skills, building warm and positive relationships with children, families, and colleagues.
Talking Mats and Safety and Stabilisation (Trauma level 1) trained.
Short-listed for RCSLT Award for Communication Friendly Environment in Polmont YOI.

About

I am a skilled Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) with over 12 years experience working within Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS), community paediatric teams and Young Offender Institutions (YOI). I have developed specialist knowledge in assessment, diagnosis and supporting children and young people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), developmental trauma and language disorders. My expertise includes delivering evidence-based interventions, providing holistic assessments, and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to develop individualised therapy plans. Passionate about person-centred care, I work closely with families and schools to foster positive outcomes for the young people I support. I am eager to expand my practice in Australia, and learn new ways of working as well as bringing my specialist knowledge from a broad range of working environments across Scotland’s NHS.