Bank Speech and Language Therapist

Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust; Brighton; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization dedicated to improving mental health care. As a Speech and Language Therapist, you'll work with a specialist team to support autistic individuals, providing assessments and interventions that make a real difference. With a focus on professional development and a commitment to inclusive care, this role offers a unique opportunity to enhance your skills while contributing to the community's well-being. If you're passionate about mental health and eager to make an impact, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Career development opportunities

Fully funded lifelong learning

Supportive work environment

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist required.
• Experience in neuroaffirmative approaches preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessments for autistic individuals.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for patient care.
• Manage complex caseloads and provide evidence-based interventions.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Neuroaffirmative approaches

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Communication strategies

Clinical assessment

Education

HCPC registration

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Main area: Mental Health

Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7

Contract: Bank: 4 months (Up until 31st March 2025)

Hours:

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working
• Compressed hours
• Term time hours

37.5 hours per week (would consider part time)

Job ref: 354-Bank-LD-20060-A

Site: East Brighton Town, Brighton

Salary: £24.82 per hour

Salary period: Hourly

Closing: 31/12/2024 23:59

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, and 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 to making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during the 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 Therapists who are interested in working with autistic young people and/or adults who are inpatient or at risk of admission using neuroaffirmative approaches.

Main duties of the job

The Speech and Language Therapist role within the team provides 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 communication strategies and reasonable adjustments required.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. 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.
2. To provide specialist assessment and contribute to differential diagnosis in the NDS as required by the Principal SLT NDS.
3. 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.
4. Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues and other agencies.
5. Liaise and consult with other Speech and Language Therapists and/or other professions within mainstream primary and secondary provider services.
6. 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 needs.
7. To prioritise, organise, and manage a complex caseload as part of the MDT.
8. To provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures.
9. 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.
10. To inform and counsel service users, relatives, and carers and significant others to present complex information clearly and comprehensively to optimise communication.
11. To encourage and enable service users and carers involvement and choice in all intervention options and decisions regarding their care plans/goals wherever possible.
12. 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.
13. To provide specialist Speech & Language Therapy services for those referred based on national best practice.
14. To be responsible for clinical administration and record keeping related to the specialist caseload according to Trust policy.
15. 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 the specialism.
16. 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.

Person specification

Qualifications

• HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist

Sussex Partnership NHS FT is committed to supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our communities. Our workforce is currently under-represented from Black and Minority Ethnic and disabled communities and we would welcome applications from these communities.

We regret that we are unable to advise candidates if they have not been shortlisted. If you have not heard from us within three weeks of the closing date please assume that you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

In the event of an excessive number of applicants, the Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy earlier than indicated.

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust takes its responsibilities for the safeguarding and protection of children and young people and vulnerable adults very seriously and expects this of all its employees and bank workers. The Trust works with adult and children’s social care to ensure that the integrated service has systems in place to equip staff and bank workers with the knowledge and skills to recognize abuse, and take action to safeguard and protect vulnerable adults and children and young people. It is expected that all staff and bank workers familiarize themselves with the appropriate structures and policies and with the Sussex child protection and safeguarding procedures and the Sussex multi-agency policy and procedures for safeguarding vulnerable adults and undertake the relevant essential training and further training appropriate to their role.

Successful candidates are normally offered salaries at the bottom of the relevant salary range. However, where previous or equivalent NHS experience in a similar role can be demonstrated and evidenced, this may be taken into consideration when setting the starting salary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.