Band 6 Specialist SLT – Learning Disabilities IST

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; Vor Ort; CAD 67.000 - 84.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Intensive Support Team. You will assess and intervene for adults with learning disabilities and autism presenting with communication and dysphagia needs.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist advice, support discharge planning, and contribute to service development and quality improvement, delivering person-centred care and improving

Qualifikationen

• Experience working with people with learning disabilities and/or autism.
• Ability to assess and support individuals with complex communication needs.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; works well in a team.

Aufgaben

• Provide specialist SLT assessment, diagnosis and intervention for adults with learning disabilities with communication or dysphagia needs.
• Independently manage and prioritise a specialist caseload within IST, using clinical reasoning and risk assessment.
• Provide defined sessional input to The Hollies LD Ward, supporting discharge planning.
• Assess and support people with complex communication needs through Total Communication approaches.
• Undertake dysphagia assessment and intervention with safe eating and drinking recommendations.
• Contribute to multidisciplinary assessment, care planning and risk management.
• Provide timely specialist advice to carers, families and providers on communication support.
• Work autonomously within professional standards, seeking supervision as needed.

Kenntnisse

Learning disabilities experience

Autism experience

Complex communication needs assessment

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Person-centred care

Jobbeschreibung

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Intensive Support Team. You will assess and intervene for adults with learning disabilities and autism presenting with communication and dysphagia needs.

Working within a multidisciplinary team, you will provide specialist advice, support discharge planning, and contribute to service development and quality improvement, delivering person-centred care and improving