Inpatient Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME16 9PL |
| Company: | Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6235598/380-FR0423 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
Low and Medium secure services, with a passion for Speech and Language service development, are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking Speech and Language Therapist.
We are really excited to be able to offer this 12-month pilot post opportunity to an enthusiastic and motivated Speech and Language Therapistas either a fixed term contract or secondment.
We recognise that understanding and responding to the speech, language and communication needs of our patients plays an incredibly important role in the assessment and treatment of the individuals that we work with in mental health services. For that reason, we are looking to recruit an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our medium and low-secure mental health inpatient services to help us develop our offer in this area.
While the successful candidate will be expected to provide some hands-on clinical work with patients, service development will be a key part of the role. The successful candidate will be expected to scope the clinical need for Speech and Language Therapy input in each of these services, provide consultation and support for staffing teams, develop and implement training and evidence the outcomes of speech and language therapy input within the services.
We think that this could be a really exciting opportunity for someone to come in and help design and shape the therapeutic offer within these services and they are really enthusiastic at the prospect of having Speech and Language Therapy input.
The Trevor Gibbens Unit is a 66 bedded medium secure service in Maidstone, providing mental health assessment and treatment to both men and women. The Allington Centre is a 20 bedded low secure service in Dartford providing assessment and treatment to men only. Patients within these services will present with a range of mental health diagnoses but may also present with comorbidities including neurodiversity, substance misuse or cognitive differences. The successful applicant would be expected to work across these two services, however, there is flexibility as to how their time is split.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,700 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
Low and Medium secure services, with a passion for Speech and Language service development, are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking Speech and Language Therapist.
We are really excited to be able to offer this 12-month pilot post opportunity to an enthusiastic and motivated Speech and Language Therapistas either a fixed term contract or secondment.
We recognise that understanding and responding to the speech, language and communication needs of our patients plays an incredibly important role in the assessment and treatment of the individuals that we work with in mental health services. For that reason, we are looking to recruit an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our medium and low-secure mental health inpatient services to help us develop our offer in this area.
While the successful candidate will be expected to provide some hands-on clinical work with patients, service development will be a key part of the role. The successful candidate will be expected to scope the clinical need for Speech and Language Therapy input in each of these services, provide consultation and support for staffing teams, develop and implement training and evidence the outcomes of speech and language therapy input within the services.
We think that this could be a really exciting opportunity for someone to come in and help design and shape the therapeutic offer within these services and they are really enthusiastic at the prospect of having Speech and Language Therapy input.
The Trevor Gibbens Unit is a 66 bedded medium secure service in Maidstone, providing mental health assessment and treatment to both men and women. The Allington Centre is a 20 bedded low secure service in Dartford providing assessment and treatment to men only. Patients within these services will present with a range of mental health diagnoses but may also present with comorbidities including neurodiversity, substance misuse or cognitive differences. The successful applicant would be expected to work across these two services, however, there is flexibility as to how their time is split.
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,700 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
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