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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and innovative Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to join the Specialist Learning Disability Service based in West Hertfordshire.
The successful candidate will work as an influential and integral member of a diverse multi-disciplinary specialist learning disability health team working across a range of settings.
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 communication difficulties and dysphagia difficulties. The person successful in their application will be an essential member of the MDT, working alongside Psychiatry, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Psychology, Arts Therapies, Physiotherapy and Social Care colleagues to support our service users achieve their goals.
The post offers good links with SLT colleagues throughout HPFT services. You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Senior Lead Speech and Language Therapist and peers. There is a strong ethos of Continuous Quality Improvement throughout the service and the Trust as a whole, creating possibilities for developing and extending knowledge and skills. You will be actively encouraged to participate in continuing professional development activities.
To provide high quality, comprehensive Speech and language Therapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group
To manage a caseload using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in community settings
To provide this service-to-service users, who present with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties
To undertake supervision of junior staff and students as required
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: Nancy Essery Job title: Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Email address: n.essery@nhs.net Telephone number: 07795 882027
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