Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust; Preston; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working patterns

Collaborative MDT

Job summary

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join the Specialist Autism Team in Preston. You will support autistic adults in community and inpatient settings, assessing communication needs and delivering person-centred SLT interventions.

Working within a MDT, you will contribute to outreach and inpatient pathways, apply neuroaffective practice, and support duty and assessments.

Qualifications

• Registered Speech and Language Therapist with current professional registration.
• Experience working within neurodevelopmental/autism services is advantageous.
• Ability to work across community and inpatient settings within a MDT.

Responsibilities

• Assess and support communication needs of autistic adults in the community and inpatient settings.
• Deliver SLT interventions and contribute to care plans.
• Support outreach and inpatient pathways with neuroaffective practice.
• Participate in team duties and assessments to support service delivery.

Skills

Registered SLT

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Person-centred care

Job description

The post holder will support the provision of the Autism Team to autistic individuals and complex healthcare needs across Lancashire and South Cumbria. Your role will be to ensure that the person’s communication needs are assessed and considered. You will be a registered Speech and Language Therapist who will undertake appropriately delegated work to support the care and treatment of autistic adults within the community and inpatient settings. You will be a key member of the multi-disciplinary team and will work with the team to develop and deliver person centred care plans with the emphasis on preventing unnecessary hospital admissions. Where hospital admission is deemed appropriate, you shall support the inpatient team by providing intervention support regarding communication.

The post holder shall support the delivery of the Specialist Autism Service team model through the provision of routine speech and language therapy assessment and interventions in order to maintain, restore or create a match beneficial to the individual between the abilities of the person, and the demands of the environment/ communication culture around them.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Speech and language therapist to join the Specialist Autism Team, a unique and continuously developing service which works closely with secondary mental health care services to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions for autistic individuals.

This role is to work within the team supporting the outreach and inpatient pathways with expert knowledge and neuroaffective practice. You will be required to support the team with the whole team tasks, such as duty and assessments as well as delivering your own specialist interventions. Therefore this post is a fantastic opportunity for a creative and innovative practitioner with a passion for delivering person-centred care, which is driven by the individuals whom we support.

The Specialist Autism Team adopts a multidisciplinary team approach to working which supports the evolutionary scope of the service.

The MDT is made up of:

• Occupational Therapists
• Nurses (RMN & RLD)
• Speech and Language Therapists
• Social Workers
• Therapy Assistants
• Clinical Psychologists

Through such an approach we are continually learning, developing and findings different ways of working in order to meet the needs and wishes of the individuals we work with. For this reason we have regular team development sessions and each team member plays a vital role in sharing knowledge and information.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.

Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.

We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.

LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.

The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.

Explore our full wellbeing offer here: Keeping our workforce well

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jess Frankland Job title: Team Lead Email address: [e-mail]