Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum (pro rata for part time) |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 30 May 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG3 3AA |
| Company: | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6217321/186-508-24-FS |
Summary
The role of the SLT is to develop and provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to people with Speech, Language, and Communication Needs as part of a multi-disciplinary team – this role sits within the within a Low Secure Hospital in the Nottinghamshire Low Secure Community Forensic Care Group. You will be working with adults who have/experience Mental Health difficulties, Personality Disorder, Neurodiversity diagnoses & Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
The role requires a high level of clinical and professional expertise in order that the population can benefit from a well-coordinated pro-active, specialist, efficient and effective SLT. The role remit includes individual assessment, diagnosis, therapy and management, training, advice & liaison. It also involves supporting the accessibility of recovery focused interventions and sessions.
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for full details
• To be autonomous and responsible for the assessment, formulation and management of a specialist clinical caseload ensuring practice is in line the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist’s Position Paper and Quality Guidelines.
• To coordinate access to speech and language therapy
• To develop and implement the 5 Good Communication standards
• To represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums as required.
• To work as an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team across a variety of agencies and locations in order to maximise communication opportunities for patients
• To be responsible for the mentoring, supervision and management of junior speech and language therapists, assistant speech and language therapists and students as required
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 10,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We are committed to flexible and agile working, including the opportunity to join our bank.
Your health and wellbeing is our priority and as such we invest significantly in this via our in-house Occupational Health Service, Staff Counselling Service and Health and Wellbeing Team.
We offer a number of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) groups, our Green Champions Network, Freedom to Speak Up Network. Health and Wellbeing Champions Network and Menopause Champions. We provide care to a diverse range of communities and are passionate about supporting diversity and inclusion in the Trust.
If you believe in our values of Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork, then we would love to hear from you!
#TeamNottsHC
See Job Description and Person Specification for full details re: the main role and responsibilities
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 May 2024
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