Senior Speech & Language Therapist — Autism Care & Training

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Greater London

On-site

GBP 43,000 - 51,000

Full time

44 hours ago

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Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist to join the Transforming Care Autism team. You will provide specialist SLT input to autistic adults, working within a small multidisciplinary group across inpatient and community settings in London.

The post offers opportunities to shape service development, deliver teaching and training, supervise junior staff, and contribute to audit and research while supporting recovery and safer care for service

Qualifications

To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
To offer training to mainstream services.
To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve.

Responsibilities

To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
To offer training to mainstream services.
To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve.