Specialist Speech & Language Therapist for Complex LD

NSFT Jobs; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Adult Community Learning Disability Service in Lowestoft. You will work within a dynamic MDT to support individuals with complex mental and physical health needs, enhancing communication pathways and independence.

The post involves autonomous clinical work, dysphagia assessment and intervention, and leading/co-ordinating treatment plans and family training within a community LD context.

Responsibilities

• Assess communication needs using standardised and non-standardised assessments
• Provide assessment and intervention for dysphagia
• Provide assessment and intervention as part of a multi disciplinary team approach
• Engage with service users, carers and family throughout the treatment process to ensure that co-production is at the centre of care.
• Devise, deliver, monitor, and evaluate treatment plans, modifying where necessary.
• Devise, deliver, monitor, and evaluate training and support packages for family and carers.
• Report verbally and in writing observation and assessment of service users.
• Attend/lead clinical meetings (e.g. multi-disciplinary team meetings, case conferences, reviews, and complex case discussions) as needed and contribute to the discussion on professional and service issues.
• Engage with agreed team processes e.g. duty

Skills

Autonomy in practice

MDT Collaboration

Dysphagia assessment

SLT in LD

Job description

Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the Adult Community Learning Disability Service in Lowestoft. You will work within a dynamic MDT to support individuals with complex mental and physical health needs, enhancing communication pathways and independence.

The post involves autonomous clinical work, dysphagia assessment and intervention, and leading/co-ordinating treatment plans and family training within a community LD context.