Band 5-6 development post An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and innovative Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to work within the Essex Learning Disability Partnership in North Essex offering SLT assessment and intervention for service users with a learning disability, mental health issues and complex needs. You will be forward thinking and able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in the area of adult learning disabilities based on current evidence. You will autonomously undertake specialist assessments and interventions with individuals with both communication difficulties and/or dysphagia. You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist and peers. You will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development activities. The post holder will be line managed within the Essex Learning Disability Partnership Team and will be professionally accountable to the Highly Specialist SLT in Learning Disabilities. All staff should comply with the Trust’s Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity The post holder will be able to progress from Band 5 to band 6 once they demonstrate that they meet the competencies specified for Band 6 level. To manage a diverse caseload, using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions To provide this service-to-service users with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. Our Trust Values Are The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it! Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Elizabeth Ryder Job title: Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Email address: elizabeth.ryder1@nhs.net Telephone number: 07968 898227