Overview
The Speech and Language Team (SaLT) work as part of a multi-disciplinary team delivering a high‑quality specialist services to individuals with Learning Disabilities and Autism.
This newly created clinical lead role will work across Learning Disabilities and Autism services to meet the communication and dysphagia needs of both client groups. We are looking for an enthusiastic SaLT that can support the team with specialist assessments to meet their communication needs. You will be a person‑centred SaLT who is committed to advocating for and meeting the needs of Adults with a Learning Disability or Autism.
Role Schedule
The post is split between the Learning Disability Service and Autism Diagnostic Services: 2 days a week with the Learning Disability Service and 3 days a week with the Autism Diagnostic Service.
Responsibilities
* Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide specialist assessment to adults with speech, language and communication needs.
* Be a skilled assessor creating specialist speech and language therapy treatment plans, support, care plans and interventions that are co‐produced with the people you support.
* Use clear evidence‑based practice to meet the person's needs, with identified clinical effectiveness and outcome measures.
* Support and supervise junior staff, and students within the service.
* Deliver highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment and intervention, ensuring that service users and their carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
* Provide clinical leadership and professional guidance to the Community Hubs as part of a multidisciplinary approach to meeting the communication and dysphagia needs of service users.
* Demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness, using evidence‑based practice, adapting practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences, and by evaluating outcomes.
* Provide a high standard of clinical care, ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and discharge planning using clinical reasoning skills and evidence‑based assessment tools.
* Provide highly specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users with communication difficulties.
* Deal with complex issues in planning and prioritising workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
* Work autonomously, managing your own complex caseload independently, with oversight from the Team Coordinator.
Trust Information
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do. The Trust is rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, with a Care Quality Commission rating of ‘outstanding’ for well‑led and ‘good’ overall.
What We Offer
We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff network groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Marshall Job title: Service Manager Email address: sarah.marshall85@nhs.net Telephone number: 07976 424191
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