Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust; Foots Cray; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust in Bromley is seeking a motivated Speech and Language Therapist to join our Community Learning Disabilities Team. You will work within a multidisciplinary service, delivering high quality care to adults with learning disabilities and their carers, across the Bromley borough and linked sites.

The role offers opportunities to develop specialist clinical skills, contribute to service improvement, and engage in ongoing supervision and professional development within a

Qualifications

• Experience working with adults with learning disabilities (ALD) or SEND.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
• Commitment to evidence-based practice and continuing professional development.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality SLT assessment and therapy within the community learning disability team.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary colleagues to plan and provide care.
• Support supervision and ongoing professional development within the service.

Skills

SLT clinical skills

Adult LD experience

Evidence-based practice

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Job description

We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language therapist to work within our Bromley Community learning disability team (CLDT). You will work as part of the CLDT, delivering high quality care as part of a multi-disciplinary service to adults with learning disabilities and their carers. We have close links across the directorate SaLTs teams offering the opportunities for specific client and project work in other boroughs (Bexley and Greenwich.), You will be working alongside other Band 6 and 7 SaLTs in the Directorate, supported by the Professional Lead, to implement creative, evidence based and efficient approaches to service delivery. The Directorate SaLT service is well respected for being innovative, evidence based and person centred. We have a robust supervision and PDR process and are keen to support continuing personal development. We encourage the development of special interests and meet regularly as a SaLT service to share skills and knowledge.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist looking to further develop their specialist clinical skills within a supportive, forward-thinking service. If you have significant experience working in Adult Learning Disabilities (ALD) and/or Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND), we would love to hear from you.

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