Roslyn Turner
Ayr,Ayrshire
Summary
Experienced professional with a strong background in autism assessment and intervention for children, young people and adults, proficient in ADOS, ADIR, and ACAI both in face to face and remote contexts. Committed to providing the highest quality, person centred assessments within a multidisciplinary team. Extensive wider experience of working with children and young people and their families, education and other agencies as a Speech and Language Therapist within the NHS.
Overview
32
32
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
Work history
Autism Assessor
ProblemShared
Remote
01.2023 - 01.2026
- Providing high quality, person centred autism assessments based on ADOS and ADIR assessment tools for children, young people and adults through the NHS Right to Choose, NHS trust commissioning and private healthcare pathways. Mentoring colleagues who are new to the company and contributing to developments within the company, currently as part of the pilot project to develop AI tools to aid in clinical administration tasks. Achieving a consistently high standard of assessment information, task management, report writing and client and colleague satisfaction resulting in a classification of “exceeding expectations” on performance review.
Neurodevelopmental Team Lead
Healios
Remote
01.2023 - 01.2024
- Effective team building, partnership working, line management and supervision for a team of Specialist Neurodevelopmental Practitioners and Trainees who provide online autism assessments for children, young people and their families. Providing leadership in routine and complex multidisciplinary meetings to consider and discuss assessment information with assessing clinicians to reach outcomes in line with diagnostic criteria of DSM 5. Liaison and partnership working with local NHS contracts to provide seamless care. Awareness and experience of risk assessment and safeguarding protocols and procedures on a practical level. Monitoring of performance data and identifying appropriate actions linked to key performance indicators for individual clinicians and for team as whole.
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran- CAMHS
02.2018 - 01.2023
- Practising within a CAMHS neurodevelopmental team contributing to multidisciplinary assessments and formulations for school age children and young people. Extensive experience of contributing to assessment of Autism, ADHD, Developmental Language Disorder, Learning Disability and FASD within complex presentations of mental health in partnership with Clinical Psychology colleagues. Delivering Specialist Neurodevelopmental Nurse and SLT diagnostic pathway for non-complex presentations of ASD. Highly experienced in compiling reports detailing complex assessment and diagnostic information, working currently within DSM 5 classifications. Provision of post assessment support and intervention for children, young people and their families. Working in partnership with education and social work colleagues to develop effective multi agency plans for children and young people. Experience from previous roles has been invaluable in translating detailed clinical assessment information into practical strategies and interventions for families and partners to support speech, language and communication needs across contexts. Supporting colleagues from Intensive Support Team and wider CAMHS to understand the language and communication needs of children and young people within their care, providing consultation, assessment, advice and adaptations to delivery and content of intervention.
SLT Lead (Raising Attainment)
NHS/ South Ayrshire Council
05.2015 - 02.2018
- In addition to above Clinical Specialist role, following re-organisation, Team Lead responsibility for small team of Speech and Language Therapists and assistants who were contracted to deliver priorities of Scottish Government's Attainment Challenge, within communities experiencing high deprivation and challenges to wellbeing. Working in partnership with education, third sector and health professionals to devise and deliver training and interventions at universal, targeted and specialist levels for children and young people who have speech, language and communication needs. Working within early years, primary and secondary schools and community settings to find innovative ways to improve outcomes for this population and find new ways to support children, young people and families within their own communities. Improvement methodology was embedded within Scottish Attainment Challenge and gave opportunity to further develop skills within this area, being successful in selection for first cohort of IHI Scottish Improvement Coach programme, completing this in May 2017.
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
11.2004 - 02.2018
- Provision of intensive and outreach support to young children who experienced specific and significant speech, language and communication needs as part of a multidisciplinary team within a Language Provision setting and within the children's own early years centres and primary schools. Responsibility for detailed assessments and reporting, planning and delivering intervention, contributing to the creation of communication friendly environments and developing individual educational plans in partnership with education colleagues. Developing and delivering training packages for education colleagues. Membership of the panel within South Ayrshire which considered the educational needs of children and young people and matched these needs to specialist provisions within the area.
Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
08.2002 - 11.2003
- Working within a multidisciplinary team supporting children with autism and their families. This was based within a specialist provision in a primary school.
Senior Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
09.1993 - 12.1999
- Working within a specialist provision for young children with specific language and communication difficulties. Working in partnership with specialist teacher, early years practitioners and educational psychologist to provide intensive and outreach support to host nurseries and primary schools. Development and delivery of training packages to families and education colleagues.
Education
Bachelor of Science(Honours) - Speech Pathology and Therapeutics
University of Glasgow
Jordanhill 10.1987 - 06.1991
Post Graduate Certificate - Early Education
University of Paisley
01.1997 - 01.1998
Skills
- ADOS
- 3di
- IHI Improvement Coach
- Hanen Parent and Teacher programmes
- SCERTS
- Balanced Systems
- ADIR
- ACAI(Autism Clinical Interview for Adults)
References
References available upon request
Interests
Walking, yoga, travel.
Additional info
In addition to my main employment, I maintain my skills in face to face assessment for children and young people by providing direct access autism assessments for families through CAYP Psychology and Dara Psychology, in partnership with my clinical psychology colleague in Ayr.
Timeline
Autism Assessor
ProblemShared
01.2023 - 01.2026
Neurodevelopmental Team Lead
Healios
01.2023 - 01.2024
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran- CAMHS
02.2018 - 01.2023
SLT Lead (Raising Attainment)
NHS/ South Ayrshire Council
05.2015 - 02.2018
Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
11.2004 - 02.2018
Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
08.2002 - 11.2003
Post Graduate Certificate - Early Education
University of Paisley
01.1997 - 01.1998
Senior Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Ayrshire and Arran
09.1993 - 12.1999
Bachelor of Science(Honours) - Speech Pathology and Therapeutics
University of Glasgow
10.1987 - 06.1991