Job Overview
Do you want to advocate for people with a learning disability to communicate and live well? As a Speech and Language Therapist in the Community Learning Disability Team, you will use your clinical expertise and experience to support people with the most complex needs to live well with their learning disability. You will provide specialist communication and dysphagia assessments and interventions for people referred to the service, and be an integral member of a friendly, supportive team of SaLTs and the wider multi‑disciplinary team. You will have the autonomy to manage your own diary, and opportunities for hybrid working. This post is for 28.5 hours per week.
Please contact either the Team Leader or the Principal Speech and Language Therapist if you would like to discuss the role further.
Key Responsibilities
* Manage a caseload of adults with learning disabilities who have complex communication difficulties and dysphagia/eating/drinking/swallowing difficulties.
* Promote and enable service user and carer involvement and choice in intervention options.
* Understand a client’s learning capacity and obtain informed consent in ways that demonstrate good practice and conform to Trust consent policies. Ensure that consent is obtained within the legal framework for clients who may lack capacity to consent to treatment.
* Act as Lead Practitioner for the team: coordinate the care provided by the multidisciplinary team, organise and chair meetings, and update clinical plans.
* Conduct comprehensive assessment of clients using investigative and analytic skills to formulate an individualised management and treatment programme.
* Evaluate effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures.
Benefits and Support
* Excellent supervision programmes.
* Flexible working opportunities.
* Access to a host of discount schemes (including gyms, shopping, restaurants, and cars).
* Generous holiday entitlement.
* Excellent NHS pension scheme.
* Wide range of training specifically targeted to AHPs, promoting ongoing learning.
Contact
Name: Karen Ali
Job title: Principal Speech and Language Therapist
Email: karen.ali@nhs.net
Telephone: 07795 126675
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