Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Foots Cray; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their Adult Learning Disability team. This role involves delivering high-quality care and assessment to adults with learning disabilities, including autism and complex needs. The ideal candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary team and have opportunities to develop specialisms relevant to adult services. Competitive compensation and a supportive work environment are offered.

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with learning disabilities, including those with autism.
• Ability to contribute to clinical pathways and high-quality care.
• Knowledge of assessment and intervention strategies.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality assessment and intervention to adults with learning disabilities.
• Coordinate with multi-disciplinary teams to provide effective care.
• Develop specialism in areas like transition work for young adults.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Working with learning disabilities

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Complex needs management

Education

Relevant degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

Overview

The Adult Learning Disability Service in Bexley/Bromley have received additional funding to increase their team of Speech and Language Therapists. This is a great opportunity for a therapist wanting to further develop their specialist skills working with adults with learning disabilities including autism. You will work as part of the Bromley and Bexley multi-disciplinary, community learning disability team along with a Band 7 SaLT Clinical Lead, Band 6 and a Band 5 SaLT Co-worker. You will have a small caseload of adults with varying degrees of learning disability, some of whom have complex needs including dysphagia, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, mental health difficulties and/or challenging behaviour. The team is based at Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup. To work as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Adult Learning Disability Directorate, delivering high quality assessment and intervention to young people and adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers, with a particular focus on Transition.

We are looking for an enthusiastic therapist to come and join our well respected and innovative Adult Learning Disability (ALD) Directorate Speech and Language Therapy service. Therapists play an essential role within each Borough\'s multi-agency community ALD team and contribute to a number of clinical pathways delivering high quality care to people with learning disabilities and their carers. There is opportunity to develop a specialism, such as transition work for young people entering adult services, within the team depending upon your interests and the needs of the service.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children\'s centres, schools and people\'s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary\'s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We\'re Kind
• We\'re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care