Job summary
Employer heading
Bank Speech and Language Therapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Welcome from our Chief Executive
Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.
So what can we offer you in return?
We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.
You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.
As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.
If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.
Job overview
The Transforming Care Autism Team are a specialist assessment and consultation multidisciplinary team who work alongside SPFT colleagues to support discharges and avoid admissions for autistic young people and adults. We have some additional short term funding and we are looking for B6 or B7 Speech and Language Therapist who are interested in working with autistic young people and/or adults who are inpatient or at risk of admission using neuroaffirmative approaches.Ìý
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Main duties of the job
The Speech and Language therapist role within the team provide specialist assessments of communication and language in order to support a holistic formulation of how neurodiversity may be contributing to presenting risks. Individual interventions may be completed with individuals to collaboratively understand their neurodiversity and make recommendations for Ìýcommunication strategies and reasonable adjustments required.
Working for our organisation
Please contact us if you are able to provide specific Speech and Language assessments on an individual case by case basis at any point during the time period from now up until the end of March 2025.
Please contact Dawn Howard for more information. Support and induction will be provided.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to autistic people who are on the Transforming Care Risk Register as part of TCAT to support discharge or avoid admission.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide specialist assessment and contribute to differential diagnosis in the NDS as required by the Principal SLT NDS
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide highly specialist supervision to other Speech and Language Therapists or Speech and Language Therapy Assistants within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, as necessary.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues and other agencies.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý Liaise and consult with other Speech and Language Therapists and/or other professions within mainstream primary and secondary provider services.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To work within the MDT to undertake risk assessment, formulation, and management for individual clients with complex presentations and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment, formulation, and management in relation to communication need
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To prioritise, organise and manage a complex caseload as part of the MDT.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions and to evaluate effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To undertake comprehensive assessment of those referred to using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualized interventions based on advanced clinical reasoning and partnership working.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To inform and counsel service users, relatives and carers and significant others to present complex information clearly and comprehensively to optimise communication.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To encourage and enable service users and carers involvement and choice in all intervention options and decisions regarding their care plans / goals wherever possible.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To negotiate with clients, relatives and carers and relevant others around care plans and complex case management to motivate and engage them in the therapeutic process.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To provide specialist Speech & Language Therapy services for those referred based on national best practice.
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·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To be responsible for clinical administration and record keeping related to the specialist caseload according to Trust policy.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To be aware of and adhere to, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy clinical guidelines, Health Professions Council standards of proficiency, conduct, performance and ethics, and policies and guidelines relating to specialism.
·ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý To work within the specialist multidisciplinary team advising on the management of specific Speech and Language Therapy related clinical issues, to collaborate in the development and co-ordination of team objectives and in the development of care pathways and care protocols related to the specialist area.
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Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dawn Howard
- Job title
- Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
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