Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, Barnsley

  • Full time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted 2 weeks ago, 25 Jun | Get your application in now before you miss out!

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: f86f1fba77e04ce79612079f02a640a3

Full Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly and welcoming Intensive Support Team (IST). We are looking for a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist who is motivated and enthusiastic, to work with adults with a learning disability and mental health problems and/or behaviours of concerns, who are at risk of placement breakdown or hospital admission and require intensive input from a multidisciplinary team. This can be a development post for a band 5 to 6 Speech and Language Therapist.

The successful candidate would offer speech and language input to vulnerable clients and receive job satisfaction of knowing you are making a significant impact on a persons quality of life by helping those around them to understand them.

The IST is part of the Community Learning Disability Health Team, and we place a strong emphasis on multidisciplinary working. We have strong and effective links with our partner agencies including the local authority and ICB as well as local care providers.

This post will be based at the Mapplewell Centre, which has a specialist sensory room and a rebound therapy room. The service is open Monday to Friday 9 to 5. We can offer flexible working hours and an agile working policy., The role of the Specialist Speech and Language Therapist is to assess the service users communication needs and provide advice and training to ensure the services users needs are understood by carers and services that are supporting them.

You will be an integral part of the IST and contribute towards assessments, formulations and interventions based on your clinical experience, assessments and observations.

You will also be required to work independently and to make autonomous decisions. In this role you will be given freedom to use your own initiative and we will welcome candidates with a can do attitude.

You will receive clinical supervision from a Senior Speech and Language therapist, whilst also having the opportunity to link in with colleagues in the other ISTs and community teams.

A key aspect of the post is the role of care coordination and working closely with other agencies to bring about successful outcomes for our service users.

Professional development is actively encouraged, and we would be able to offer the successful candidate opportunity to train upon applicant preference and service need.

Please see the job description and person specification for more details.

All employees of the Trust are strongly encouraged to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect patients.

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.

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