Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust; Norwich; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to work across Learning Disability and Forensic services based at Little Plumstead Hospital and Broadland Clinic.

The post holder will manage a defined caseload and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to plan, implement and evaluate therapy packages for service users with learning disabilities and complex mental and physical health needs.

Responsibilities

• Work as an integrated member of a multidisciplinary team.
• Establish effective communication with service users, carers, and colleagues.
• Provide consultation, risk assessment & risk management recommendations.
• Deliver highly specialist advice, training, and supervision to build capacity.
• Develop Speech and Language Therapy provision with support from the SLT lead.
• Supervise and lead junior staff and students as required.
• deputise for the Therapies Professional Lead in Learning Disability services when needed.

Job description

To work within the Learning Disability and Forensic (LD&F) directorate across LD inpatient services based at Little Plumstead Hospital, with the majority of their clinical caseload at the Broadland Clinic. The post holder will also work across Norfolk within the Norfolk Forensic Community LD (NFC-LD) team and Intensive Support Service (ISS).

This role involves offering SLT assessment and intervention for service users with a learning disability and complex and intersecting mental illness and physical health needs. This will be undertaken in partnership with, To manage a defined caseload, using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate assessment and intervention work packages for the specified service user group.

• To work as an effective, integrated member of a multi-disciplinary team.
• To establish effective communication networks with services users and carers, team members, AHP colleagues and other agencies.
• To provide consultation, specialist risk assessment & risk management recommendations.
• To provide highly specialist advice, support, education and training to increase the capacity and capability of others to work with people with a learning disability.
• To develop Speech and Language Therapy provision within the service with support from the SLT Professional Lead.
• To undertake supervision and leadership of junior staff and students as required.
• To deputise for the Therapies Professional Lead in Learning Disability services as necessary.

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?