Speech and Language Therapist

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dynamic Speech and Language Therapist to join their innovative team in Leeds. This role offers the opportunity to work with adults who have learning disabilities, providing essential assessments and interventions tailored to their needs. As part of a supportive multi-disciplinary team, you will enhance your clinical skills and contribute to service improvements. The organization values diversity and is committed to professional development, offering flexible working arrangements and a range of employee benefits. If you are passionate about making a difference in the lives of individuals with learning disabilities, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

Flexible working arrangements

NHS Pension Scheme

Employee wellbeing support

Training and education support

Exclusive discounts and payment schemes

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy and HCPC registered required.
• Experience with learning disabilities and multi-disciplinary teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess and deliver interventions for adults with learning disabilities.
• Work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Communication Skills

Empathy

Team Collaboration

Dysphagia Management

Patient-Centered Care

Education

Degree in Speech and Language Therapy

Tools

Community Visits Vehicle

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.

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Job overview

Are you a Speech and Language Therapist looking for an opportunity to widen your experience and develop your skills working with adults who have Learning Disabilities?

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our well-established Speech and Language Therapy team. We are a supportive, nurturing and innovative team who are excited to welcome new members to join us. We work as part of a Multidisciplinary Community Learning Disability Team consisting of Community Nurses, Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Dietitians, Physiotherapists, Support Workers and Psychiatrists.

Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust Learning Disability Services are undergoing an exciting development opportunity for a B6 Speech and Language Therapy to join the well-established team. Applicants will be versatile and innovative with experience or enthusiasm to work in speech and language therapy in a community learning disability setting. We welcome applications from current band 5 Speech and Language Therapists who wish to gain experience in a band 6 role.

Main duties of the job

Our service offers assessment and intervention to adults with learning disabilities in Leeds who have a communication or swallowing difficulty whose needs cannot be met within a mainstream service. You will join a network of Speech and Language Therapists who will support you to develop your clinical skills in dysphagia, communication, service improvements and working in a person-centred way. They meet monthly for group clinical supervision, to share good practice and initiate service improvements.

There are also opportunities to develop your leadership skills and take an active role in service development including training, outcome measures and research.

You will be a valued member of our highly supportive multi-disciplinary, community learning disability service and AHP community. You will manage an identified caseload of clients with a range of clinical needs.

You will be supported to develop your skills through MDT meetings, the speech and language practice development meetings and the AHP forum.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills with an ability to form wide networks with both health and social care teams. You will be able to deliver compassionate, patient focused care with a strong reference to the clinical evidence base. The successful candidate will be eager to develop their knowledge in specific clinical areas to improve practice and to strengthen the team’s response to need.

It would be essential for the applicant to have completed post graduate competencies in dysphagia.

Excellent professional links exist with Speech and Language Therapy colleagues within Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, and Leeds Community Healthcare which ensures a wealth of opportunities for clinical and professional development. Our work is diverse and varied. Patient Public Involvement has been an integral part of our service development and has helped to create a culture of continuous improvement.

Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust has a strong commitment in continuing professional development, structured through clinical supervision, appraisal, and personal development planning.

You will carry out Speech and Language Therapy assessments and deliver communication and dysphagia interventions personalized to meet the needs of adults who are referred to the team along with the following;
• To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT), 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, and acting as a Care Co-ordinator where appropriate.
• To support and guide junior staff members and participate in the education and supervision of a range of students.
• To maintain clear links with your Speech and Language Therapy structures and your AHP lead within the Trust.
• Support the Speech and Language Therapy development and modernisation and the adherence to your Speech and Language Therapy standards and codes of practice.
• To utilise your core Speech and Language Therapy skills to provide high quality Speech and Language Therapy interventions to people with a learning disability.

If you are a Speech and Language Therapist who is interested in supporting people using a holistic care model and social model of care, in working closely within an MDT and liaising with multi agency services, in advocating for the physical health needs of this vulnerable client group, in being creative in developing bespoke programmes, in delivering informal and formal training to care providers this could be the post for you!

The service runs Monday to Friday 9 to 5. All team members have access to full remote technology (phones and laptops) to support smart ways of working. LD services are adaptive in safely and effectively meeting the needs of our service users and their carers.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy and HCPC registered

Knowledge

Experience

• Enthusiasm for working with people with learning disabilities
• Experience of working with a multi-disciplinary team

Skills

• Must be a driver with access to a vehicle for community visits

Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of 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 1 st July 2018 , all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.

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 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.