Specialist Speech And Language Therapist

Sussex Partnership Nhs Foundation Trust; Crawley Down; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

CPD opportunities

Flexible working

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Band 6) to join a team of SLTs spanning adult mental health wards. The role, based at Langley Green Hospital, will suit an experienced practitioner with an interest in dementia and mental health care.

You will be supported by senior SLT colleagues, with opportunities to supervise students and to contribute to service development. Travel to other sites for meetings/training may be required.

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree or Masters qualification.
• Health Professions Council - licence to practice
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
• Evidence of specialist short courses related to dementia or mental health
• Post-basic qualification in dysphagia

Responsibilities

• Provide mental health speech and language therapy services to inpatients on acute mental health hospital.
• Provide day‑to‑day SLT input within the MDT on designated wards across the hospital.
• Contribute actively to planning, evaluating and development of the service.
• Provide leadership through supervision of speech and language therapy students as required.
• Ensure effective liaison with other services within the locality including voluntary, statutory and community resources, as well as social services.

Skills

Speech & Language Therapy

Dysphagia

Mental health experience

Education

SLT degree

HCPC registration

RCST membership

Dementia/mental health short courses

Post-basic dysphagia qualification

Job description

Job summary

Unique opportunity to join a team of mental health speech and language therapists working across the Trust's adult mental health wards. This is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapy (Band 6) role and would ideally suit an experienced practitioner with the desire to help deliver a high-quality service to people living with mental health needs and/or dementia.

You will be supported by a more experienced speech and language therapist. The team is led by a Principal Speech and Language Therapist (Band 8a) in Mental Health and Dementia. There are currently opportunities to support student speech and language therapists.

The post holder will be based at Langley Green Hospital and will need to able to travel for meetings and training to other sites on occasions.

Experience in mental health and/or dementia is advantageous.

By joining our team, you will benefit from:

• Strong supportive teams with dedicated supportive leaders
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A service that works to develop clear evidence-based care pathways

Main duties of the job

You will already possess a broad range of skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including dementia, mental health conditions, acquired neurological conditions, learning disabilities and neurodiversity. Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD to develop skills gaps.

As well as direct assessments and interventions, speech and language therapy will be delivered by increasing the skills and competencies of other staff on wards.

You will have support from and work collaboratively within the speech and language therapy professional group which spans the whole of Sussex and includes a large team of learning disability, neurodevelopmental and mental health specialist speech and language therapists.

You will be collaborating across services to deliver results. We work closely with colleagues in social care, primary care and other specialist secondary services.

This is a great opportunity to use the skills you have developed across a broad range of care pathways.

About us

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Sussex.

We encourage flexible working

We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job responsibilities

• To provide mental health speech and language therapy services to inpatients who have communication or swallowing needs in an acute mental health hospital.
• To provide the day‑to‑day speech and language therapy input within the multi‑disciplinary team on the designated wards across the hospital.
• To contribute actively to planning, evaluating and development of the service.
• To provide leadership through supervision of speech and language therapy students as required.
• Ensure effective liaison with other services within the locality including voluntary, statutory and community resources, as well as social services.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree or Masters qualification or equivalent.
• Health Professions Council - licence to practice
• Registered member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
• Evidence of completion of specialist short courses related to dementia or mental health
• Post‑basic qualification in dysphagia

Experience

Essential

• Post graduate experience as a Speech & Language Therapist working with adults with acquired conditions
• Significant post graduate experience of managing a caseload including people with complex communication difficulties and dysphagia
• To have worked under the supervision of a clinical specialist in dementia or mental health
• Working within a Multi Disciplinary Team

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.

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