Speech and Language Therapist

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in mental health services is seeking a dedicated speech and language therapist to enhance care for adults with mental health conditions. This role offers the chance to develop clinical skills in a supportive environment, focusing on dysphagia and communication assessments. You will collaborate with a dynamic multi-disciplinary team, contributing to innovative service developments and ensuring high-quality interventions for service users. Join a forward-thinking organization that values empathy and integrity, and make a meaningful impact in the lives of those you serve.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Employee wellbeing support

Career development opportunities

Training and education support

Exclusive discounts and payment schemes

Qualifications

• Required qualifications include a degree in speech and language therapy recognized by RCSLT.
• Registration with HCPC is essential for the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality speech and language therapy interventions to adults with mental illness.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team to support service users.

Skills

Empathy

Communication Skills

Teamwork

Clinical Skills

Dysphagia Management

Education

Speech and Language Therapy Qualification

HCPC Registration

Job description

Are you looking for mental health jobs in Leeds, York or with one of our regional services operating across the country? We have a range of NHS Job opportunities, placements and specialities in our clinical, research, and professional support teams across Leeds and York.

At Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT), we strive to provide high-quality mental health and learning disability services as an employer of choice. We can only achieve this by putting our staff and the people using our services at the centre of everything we do. This starts with the people we employ. We recruit based on values and qualifications (where required) and believe lived experience is an advantage. We look for potential, not perfection, and this means that together, we are as diverse as the communities we care for.

Simply put, we seek out people who care, act with integrity and have the right skills. We want to add to our incredible colleagues, students and volunteers who share these principles, with people like you, who find empathy comes easily and who treat everyone with respect without thinking. Search our latest jobs to start your journey with us.

Main area Rehabilitation & Recovery services/ The Mount Older Peoples services Grade 6 Contract 9 months (Fixed Term or Secondment Considered) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 173-06325-EDRS

Site Rehabilitation & Recovery services/ The Mount Older Peoples services Town Leeds Salary £37,338 - £44,962 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 14/02/2025 23:59 Interview date 10/03/2025

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a speech and language therapist to work in specialist adult mental health services (working age adults and Older Peoples Services) in Leeds and York Partnership Foundation NHS Trust. The role would provide dysphagia and communication assessments and interventions to adults who have a mental health condition and are in an in-patient setting. Intervention includes individual and group sessions and is an area of development working inclusively with service users and with the MDT.

The position will be based within both the rehabilitation and recovery services and The Mount, where there is the highest level of need. The rehabilitation and recovery service works with adults who have a severe and enduring mental illness and consists of three in-patient wards based in the community, as well as a community transitional rehabilitation team. The Mount has 4 inpatient wards for Older People with acute mental health needs including dementia. Both services has an effective and dynamic multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychologists, occupational therapists, dietitians, nurses, healthy living advisors and support staff.

The role will be operationally responsible to operational management across both services and clinically responsible to the Principle Speech and Language Therapist and Allied Health Professional Lead.

Main duties of the job

This role would provide the opportunity to develop your clinical skills with this patient group. The rehabilitation and recovery services are currently developing a new Complex Psychosis Pathway and you will have the opportunity to be involved in this exciting service development.

• To utilise your core speech and language therapy skills to provide high quality speech and language therapy interventions to working age adults with a mental illness, and to older persons unit (mental illness and dementia).
• To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering a comprehensive service to service users who require specialist health interventions.
• To participate in the ongoing development and maintenance of quality services, ensuring ongoing commitment to the care programme approach, managing complex care directly, and indirectly eg training staff in strategies to support communication and/or safer swallowing.
• To participate in the education and supervision of a range of students.
• To maintain clear links with your speech and language therapy structures, Principal SLT and your AHP lead within the Trust.
• Support the speech and language therapy team development, promoting SLT role within multidisciplinary team and alerting managers to areas of SLT need and service development.
• Adherence to RCSLT speech and language therapy standards and codes of practice.

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We welcome enquiries and applications from aspiring or practising Band 6 SLTs looking to develop your skills and experience working with people with mental health conditions. This also presents an ideal secondment opportunity with approval from your current employer.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [e-mail]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

Person specification

Qualifications / Registration

• Diploma, degree or masters speech and language therapy qualification recognised by RCSLT.
• Registration with HCPC.

Experience

• Fully completed NQP competencies and post graduate competencies in dysphagia.

Knowledge

• Experience in working with adults with mental illness.
• Experience in staff training and working with multidisciplinary team.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position based on a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application. Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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