Highly Specialised Speech and Language Therapist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Gloucestershire is seeking a specialist in speech and language therapy to join their Learning Disability Intensive Support Service. The role focuses on providing tailored therapy to both adults and children with learning disabilities, ensuring they can thrive in the community and receive appropriate care. The successful candidate will work within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to assessments and interventions while supporting the development of communication aids.

Qualifications

• Highly specialist speech and language therapy for learning disabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and interventions for service users with learning disabilities.
• Support discharge from hospital and implement positive behaviour support plans.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Multidisciplinary Teamwork

Job description

The post holder will be an invaluable member of the Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS), working with service users throughout Gloucestershire and within our small inpatient service in Stroud. The purpose of this role is to:

1. Provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities referred to LDISS.
2. Provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to our small learning disability inpatient service based at Berkeley House in Stroud.
3. Work as a key member of a specialist multidisciplinary team.
4. Provide eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users. This is desirable but not essential.

Objectives of the role include:

1. Optimising the service users' ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment.
2. Facilitating appropriate discharge from hospital and responding to agencies requiring assessment of service users being considered for hospital admission.
3. Supporting the development and implementation of the PBS positive behaviour support plan as part of LDISS interventions.
4. Identifying, assessing eligibility for, providing, and supporting the implementation of alternative/augmentative communication aids, including visual resources and high/low tech devices.