Steve Rose Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Brighton, United Kingdom

• I provide an independent SLT service that includes assessment, evaluation, therapy, advice and training to children with deafblindness, multiple needs and rare diseases. I also offer project management and consultancy.
• University of Birmingham/ Birmingham City University - lecturing on deafblindness programs.
• The Alba Centre – SLT assessment of students using tactile sign language
• National Sensory Impairment Partnership – project lead for the Sensory Learning Hub, lead trainer for the two day tactile sign language course.
• Insight Editorial Board – working with the board to develop Insight online content
• Sense International – technical specialist and quality assurance review for Early Intervention projects in Nairobi, Kenya; Entebbe, Uganda and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Bloomsbury, London

Initially working as a job-share, and since April 2020 as a sole postholder, to coordinate the Developmental Epilepsy Service clinical SLT team (within the Neurodisability Service). I maintain a clinical caseload and contribute to multi-disciplinary developmental assessments as part of a tertiary service. I support and lead projects that develop SLT and.

Bloomsbury, London

• Fixed Term Contract (1 yr mat cover)I provided clinical SLT support, including assessment, diagnosis, advice to families and liaison with community services; covering the following multi-disciplinary outpatient clinics:
• Neurodevelopmental Assessment Service - providing assessment and management of children with complex neurodevelopmental disorders. Reasons for referral include diagnosis, second opinion, and educational / therapy /.
• Developmental Epilepsy Clinic - providing assessment and management of children with epilepsy and associated developmental disorders. Reasons for referral include rare epilepsies, monitoring specific epilepsy.
• Sturge-Weber and Neurocutaneous Service – providing assessment and management of children with Sturge-Weber Syndrome and in the assessment of other rare neurocutaneous disorders. Reasons for referral include diagnosis.

Brighton And Hove, United Kingdom

• I strategically led a national team brought together from 6 regional services with cohesive service strategies, key performance indicators, objectives, annual work plans and impact monitoring.
• I implemented an interdisciplinary model of working with professional supervision framework to address practice needs; improve accountability, team cohesion and professional leadership within disciplines, resulting in.
• I responded to strategic change leading the team from regional practices to a national service framework to build on strengths and good practice initiatives, I developed the framework, standardised evaluation tools and.
• I was the professional lead for Speech and Language therapy and managed a paediatric caseload of children with deafblindness, multiple disabilities and rare diseases, providing assessment, evaluation, therapy and.
• I identified and undertook evidence-based research projects as part of the Practice Board.
• I effectively managed an annual budget between £1.2m-£1.8m and successfully achieved growth in traded services from £100k to £350K at it’s peak.

Barnet

• I led a regional team of specialist advisory teachers and family support workers providing holistic support to Deafblind children and families.
• As a member of the Regional Management Team I contributed to annual work plans and developed service objectives and KPIs. I undertook service improvement initiatives to improve the compliance with and effectiveness of.
• I managed a paediatric SLT caseload of children with deafblindness and multiple disabilities providing assessment, evaluation, therapy and advice to improve outcomes.
• I fostered a relationship and worked with Great Ormond Street to pilot a 1 year development clinic at the Wolfson Neurodisability Service focusing on AAC for Deafblind children (2008).

Islington, London

• I worked between 2 special schools (Richard Cloudesley school for children with physical disabilities and the Bridge School for children with learning disabilities) where I managed a paediatric caseload of sensory.
• I provided assessment and management of communication strategies, AAC systems (low, light and high tech) and dysphagia. I contributed to the development of school-wide policy, audit and training.
• I provided clinical supervision to junior SLT colleagues and the clinical placement of students.
• I was the site lead in the ‘joint notes’ project to combine multi-disciplinary health notes for both schools.

Finsbury Park, London

Supported and developed the organisations network of family / deafblind support groups. Organised events to involve deafblind people and their families in the organisation Facilitated the SIG: Sense Forum.

M.Ed., Special Education: Multi-Sensory Impairment (Deafblindness), Merit

Dissertation: ‘Similarities and differences between autism and deafblindness’

Pg Certificate, Profound Learning Disability And Multi Sensory Impairment

Bsc, Speech Sciences

Dissertation: ‘Look at that Hobbit: an investigation into the effectiveness of Interactive storytelling’