We are seeking a confident and enthusiastic B7 advanced Speech and Language Therapist, to provide specialist communication and eating, drinking and swallowing assessment and intervention to adults with a learning disability.

You will be based within our Advanced Learning Disability Specialist (ALDS) Team in Wakefield. Working to support SLT colleagues manage caseloads across the trusts 4 community LD health teams: Wakefield, Barnsley, Kirklees and Calderdale.

In this post you will work clinically in various health, social care and community settings. Working closely with other health professions from our LD health teams, social care and independent providers.

We are passionate about providing a high-quality service delivering positive outcomes for people with learning disabilities. To enable our staff to achieve this, you will be supported to progress and achieve your potential, through clinical and leadership CPD opportunities. We also support and encourage research.

We are open to either a part-time or full-time working.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients., You will be a highly motivated and conscientious individual, who has the desire to work creatively with people with learning disabilities.

We are looking for a dynamic person to join our current ALDS team to provide the highest standards of safe and compassionate planned care to clients to maximise their independence and unlock their full potential.

The post holder will be a senior therapist within the ALDS team and will provide support to Speech and Language therapists in all localities providing support and advice and where required direct input into complex and high risk cases.

You will also provide specialist speech and language therapy assessment and treatment for service users in receipt of care from community services. Enabling service users to engage in a range of individual and group community based treatment activities. The post holder will be required to work flexibly across all four localities and will contribute to the leadership and development of the Specialist Learning Disability Health Team in accordance with local and national guidance.

The postholder will be a source of expertise around communication and dysphagia and provide support and advice to others.

We are a specialist NHS Foundation Trust that provides community, mental health and learning disability services for the people of Barnsley, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield. We also provide low and medium secure services and are the lead for the west Yorkshire secure provider collaborative.

Our mission is to help people reach their potential and live well in their communities, we do this by providing high-quality care in the right place at the right time. We employ staff in both clinical and non-clinical services who work hard to make a difference to the lives of service users, families and carers.

We encourage and welcome applications from all protected characteristic groups, we value diversity and want our workforce to be reflective of our communities.

Being a foundation Trust means were accountable to our members, who can have a say in how were run. Around 14,300 local people (including staff) are members of our Trust.

Join us and you will be one of over 4,500 staff committed to supporting and improving the mental, physical and social needs of the thousands of people we meet and help each year.