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Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	07 Chwefror 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£42,939 - £50,697 pa inc
Oriau:	Llawn Amser
Dyddiad cau:	09 Mawrth 2025
Lleoliad:	Sidcup, DA14 6LF
Cwmni:	Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	6991020/277-6991020-ALD

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Are you looking for a SaLT position in Adult Learning Disability that is as part of a supportive, innovative and engaged MDT that delivers excellent care and improves the lives of people with a learning disability?

The Adult Learning Disability Service in Bexley/Bromley have received additional funding to increase their team of Speech and Language Therapists. This is a great opportunity for a therapist wanting to further develop their specialist skills working with adults with learning disabilities including autism. You will work as part of the Bromley and Bexley multi-disciplinary, community learning disability team along with a Band 7 SaLT Clinical Lead, Band 6 and a Band 5 SaLT Co-worker. You will have a small caseload of adults with varying degrees of learning disability, some of whom have complex needs including dysphagia, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, mental health difficulties and/or challenging behaviour. The team is based at Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup.

To work as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the AdultLearning Disability Directorate, delivering high quality assessment and intervention to young people and adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers, with a particular focus on Transition.

We are looking for an enthusiastic therapist to come and join our well respected and innovative Adult Learning Disability (ALD) Directorate Speech and Language Therapy service. Therapists play an essential role within each Borough's multi-agency community ALD team and contribute to a number of clinical pathways delivering high quality care to people with learning disabilities and their carers. There is opportunity to develop a specialism, such as transition work for young people entering adult services, within the team depending upon your interests and the needs of the service.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Key Task and Responsibilities
• To manage own caseload of clients with Learning Disabilities and with communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties
• To line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant and Specialist Support Workers and students as directed by Functional Team Manager and Professional Lead for ALD SaLT
• To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities in partnership with their families/carers
• To plan and deliver training courses
• To act as part of the multi-disciplinary Learning Disability teams and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.
• To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the communication skills and needs of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs and their carers
• To diagnose the communication impairments of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs
• To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the eating and drinking (dysphagia) skills and needs of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs
• To diagnose eating and drinking impairments of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs
• To plan, implement and monitor specialised packages of care including direct therapy, advice and training
• To demonstrate well-developed specialist communication and presentation skills at all times
• To adapt spoken and written information to suit the communication needs of the listener/audience
• To liaise with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Learning Disability and Transitions Teams
• To maintain close links with School, College, Day and Residential Service and Staff/Managers
• To develop and deliver specialist presentations and training to a range of audiences including Service Users, carers, staff and Professional colleagues, in both small and large groups
• To adapt information to meet the specific communication needs of people with learning disabilities by identifying and producing accessible versions
• To maintain clinical records in accordance with local standards
• To provide letters and reports as necessary in accordance with local standards


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