Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Secure CAMHS

Integrated Care System; Wetherby; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A specialist NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Secure CAMHS team at Wetherby Young Offenders Institute. The role involves providing expert clinical input, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and managing complex communication needs of young individuals. Ideal candidates will have significant clinical experience and expertise in speech and language therapy. This position offers the opportunity to make a considerable impact within a critical healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Significant experience as a Band 6/7 therapist in a relevant clinical field.
• Post-basic dysphagia training is required.
• Experience in multidisciplinary working including effective networks.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, and intervention for young people.
• Consult and train colleagues within Secure CAMHS.
• Manage a caseload and ensure compliance with legal requirements.

Skills

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Clinical assessment

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

RCSLT License to Practice

HCPC registration

Job description

Go back South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist Secure CAMHS

The closing date is 12 August 2025

My name is Lindsey Hoather, I am the Service Manager for secureCAMHS.

We are seeking an experiencedand passionate Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to joinour Secure CAMHS team based at Wetherby Young Offenders Institute. The postholder will be responsible for the assessment, differential diagnosis,intervention and management of the communication needs of young people withcomplex mental health, communication, and neurodevelopmental needs within thesecure estate.

The postholder will providedirect clinical input at Wetherby YOI and offer consultation to two securechildrens homes within the wider secure estate. The role requires closeliaison with multi-disciplinary professionals across health, education, socialcare, and custodial services. You will be working within a supportivemultidisciplinary team including other Speech and Language Therapists,Psychology, Psychiatry, Mental Health Practioners and Social Work colleagues.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to befully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

We are aware that an increasing number of applicants areusing AI technology to generate responses on NHS Job application forms. We stronglydiscourage this and will conduct a thorough screening process before selectingcandidates to progress to the next stage. If you are using AI to enhance yourapplication, please disclose this in your NHS Jobs application form.

Main duties of the job

You will work within anintegrated healthcare team and will represent CAMHS within the YOI. You willdeliver a flexibile and autonomous, highly specialist service to provide specialist assessment, diagnosis, and interventionfor young people presenting with speech, language, and communication needs. Youwill also need to communicate complex information related to your assessment toyoung people, carers, families and members of the multidisciplinary team. Youwill be required to contribute to risk formulation and trauma-informed careplanning in line with best practice guidance.

You will provide expertconsultation, advice, and training to colleagues within Secure CAMHS and staffacross the secure estate. As part of your role you will promote inclusivecommunication strategies to reduce barriers and support rehabilitation and engagement.You will also be required to support service development initiatives andcontribute to clinical governance processes.

HMYOI Wetherby is the largestsecure provision in the country, which is underpinned by the Framework forIntegrated Care which is a developmentally and trauma informed mental healthservice model.

At the time of advertising, this role does meet theminimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates towork in the UK. We look forward to receiving your application.

About us

Weare a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental healthand learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale,Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and arethe lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission isto help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do thisby providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employstaff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make adifference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourageand welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we valuediversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Beinga foundation Trust means were accountable to ourmembers, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people(including staff) are members of our Trust.

Joinus and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improvingthe mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet andhelp each year.

Weare committedto safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people andvulnerable adults and expects all colleagues and volunteers to share thiscommitment.

We do reserve to right to close vacancy before the advertised closing date if necessary, so please apply as soon as possible.

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

The post holder will be a senior therapist within the intensive supportteam, based in an identified locality they will also provide senior support toSpeech and Language therapists in other localities providing support and adviceand where required direct input into complex and high risk cases.

The post holder will work within the intensive support teamcontributing to multi disciplinary assessmentfor individuals in crisis or at high risk within the community.

The post holder will contribute to a continuous pathway for serviceusers in-reaching into the inpatient unit where required.

The postholder will be a source of expertise around dysphasia and riskassessment and provide support and advice to others.

KEYRESULT AREAS:

Clinical

The post-holder independently assesses,diagnoses and manages the communication and/or swallowing needs of clients, inparticular those with the most complex difficulties, including those withchallenging behaviour, to maximise appropriate health and social benefits. Itwill also include the management of clients for whom English is not the firstspoken language.

As a member of the intensive supportteam the post holder provides aneffective and responsive service working alongside the other team members tomeet the needs of individuals experiencing a crisis.

The post-holder provides both directand indirect intervention, consultation, advice and support; working within amulti-disciplinary model in order to ensure that the inter-agency needs ofclients are met.

The post-holder undertakes advisorywork, second opinions and provides peer review and advice within his/her areaof expertise to support and develop the clinical skills of other staff.

In conjunction with other band 7 SLT thepost- holder provides clinical supervision for other SLT posts working crosslocalities and this includes where appropriate providing direct input intocomplex cases

The post-holder liaises both orally andin writing with any significant others involved in the management of theclient, within and outside the NHS, to ensure the clients needs are meteffectively and efficiently.

The post-holder contributes todiscussion in a multi-disciplinary forum where speech and language therapyrecommendations may conflict with medical/other opinion. This is in order to facilitate quality oflife and best interest decisions..

The post-holder is responsible formanaging his/her own caseload, including clinical administration andappointments, in order to meet access criteria and ensure a cost-effective,quality service.

The post-holder has autonomousresponsibility for maintaining accurate and contemporaneous (within 24 hours)client records, in order to ensure compliance with departmental, professionaland legal requirements.

The post-holder is expected to workwith clients with challenging behaviour independently and work alone in thecommunity conducting the appropriate risk assessments as required

ServiceDevelopment

The post-holder is aware of currentlocal and national priorities, which may impact upon service delivery andcontributes to the development of strategies for meeting needs.

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The post-holder takes part in clinicalresearch opportunities and/or leads or collaborates on the writing of articlesand publications relevant to their specialist field.

Clinical Governance

Thepost-holder adheres to the standards in place within the BDU under thepillars of clinical governance, including audit, evaluation and theidentification and management of risk in any environment (clinical andnon-clinical).

Thepost-holder is subject to annual appraisal and regular supervision.

Thepost-holder is expected to provide clinical supervision for a range of lessexperienced staff, including assistants, newly qualified therapists andothers as appropriate.

ResourceManagement

Physicalresources: the post-holder identifies and manages appropriate serviceequipment requirements and is responsible for security, maintenance andtransportation of clinical resources in the team, including keepinginventories as appropriate.

Thepost-holder assists non-NHS colleagues in the identification of suitableresources to support and develop communication and safe swallowing.

Training

Thepost-holder identifies, writes, delivers and develops packages of trainingwithin his /her specialist clinical area, in order to advise, educate andempower multi-disciplinary groups and families/carers to both enhance andsupport effective communication and safe swallowing.

Thepost-holder identifies and pursues appropriate and relevant ContinuingProfessional Development (CPD) opportunities from a variety of sources inorder to keep his/her professional knowledge up-to-date.

Thepost-holder provides practical procedural instruction (both clinical andnon-clinical) to a range of more junior staff (both qualified andunqualified).

On arotational basis, the post-holder supervises clinical placements forundergraduate speech and language therapists in order to assist HigherEducation Institutes

The post-holderis expected to work with clients with challenging behaviour independently andwork alone in the community conducting the appropriate risk assessments asrequired.

Trust Values

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care andtreatment and expects that allstaff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends,colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The postholder must all time act inaccordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest,open, transparent

Respectful

Person firstand in the centre

Improve andbe outstanding

Relevanttoday, ready for tomorrow

Families andcarers matter

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety orwellbeing of children, adults service users,members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuseand understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trustpolicies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust mustcomply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriatetraining required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raiseconcerns;

maintainconfidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code ofConduct;

understandtheir personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for anyinformation which they create, use or process in accordance with the DataProtection Act 1998 and Trust Data Protection Policy;

complywith the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol.Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors.Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake firetraining annually;

receivesupervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annualAppraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory,role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understandtheir responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in EmploymentPolicy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise,respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, serviceusers, carers and the public.Contribute to a working environment which promotes and respondspositively to difference and diversity;

ensurethey carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of childrenand young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of TheChildren Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguardingpolicies and participatingin relevanttraining;

complywith their professional responsibilities to develop their practice anddeliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit,Supervision);

demonstrate,through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continualdevelopment of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abideby relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation takingaction when codes of conduct are breached;

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or relevant equivalent overseas qualification.
• RCSLT License to Practice.
• HCPC registration.
• Post-basic dysphagia training.
• Postgraduate qualification relevant to post or relevant level clinical experience.
• Postgraduate qualification to Masters Level or equivalent in a field related to Speech and Language Therapy and Learning Disabilities.
• Leadership training.
• Advanced level dysphagia training (masters level).

Physical Attributes

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post.
• A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

Experience

• Management and leadership experience.
• Significant experience as a Band 6/7 therapist in a relevant clinical field.
• Significant experience of multidisciplinary working including development of effective networks/partnerships.
• Active participation in audit, service evaluation and research in relevant clinical field.
• Experience of practice in a range of relevant Adult Learning Disabilities settings.
• Supervision of clinicians undertaking post-graduation dysphagia training supervised experience.
• Experience of supervision, appraisal and development of therapy staff and students.

Personal Attributes

• Good timekeeper.
• Maintain a high degree of professionalism at all times.
• Show creativity in working to meet the needs of people with a learning disability.
• Ability to travel around the Trust as appropriate to the role.

Training

• Management and leadership experience.
• Postgraduate qualification to Masters Level or equivalent in a field related to Speech and Language Therapy and Learning Disabilities.
• To be willing to undertake post graduate training to further skills, knowledge and expertise.
• Documented evidence of continuing practice and professional development.
• Evidence of self-directed learning.
• Leadership training.
• Advanced level dysphagia training (masters level).
• PBS training and awareness.

Special Knowledge & Skills

• Evidence of a high standard of performance in a range of clinical skills, promoting clinical excellence.
• Commitment to improving the experience of service users and their cares.
• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to work under pressure and set priorities.
• Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in speech and language therapy and adults with learning disabilities.
• Up to date knowledge of NHS modernisation issues, transformation agenda and implications for speech and language therapy and wider services.
• Knowledge and understanding of cultural and diversity issues.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust