Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £51,883.00 to £58,544.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51883.00 - £58544.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Beckenham, BR3 3BX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9334-25-0640 |
Summary
FIND Team: To provide Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) assessment and intervention to service users who have a variety of complex communication and/or swallowing needs. This will include adults with Learning disability, Autism and/or mental health conditions or behaviours that challenge. To autonomously manage a caseload in the FIND Team and carry out assessments, interventions and give advice regarding the daily management of service users to the MDT. To work as part of the MDT in the management and care delivery of service users and to participate in MDT reviews. To work with the MDT to triage referrals to the service. To identify training needs and assist in developing new resources accordingly. To develop and run groups for people accessing the FIND team. To participate in the clinical training of SLT students. Forensic inpatient services: To provide specialist assessments, formulations and interventions for individuals and their support network where the identified in River House, Chaffinch and Ward in the community. To provide culturally appropriate interventions with carers or families of referred clients when required. To assess and monitor risk and draw up appropriate risk management plans. To provide reports, including relevant formulation, opinion and interventions, in order to inform referrers and, where appropriate, service users and their families. To select and deliver evidence-based specialist interventions, drawing from a spectrum of ideas and models, monitoring outcome and modifying and adapting interventions as necessary, based on the highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, couple, family or group. To promote support for carers (or families as appropriate) of referred clients.