Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Speech and Language Therapist

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Job summary

As part of the new Speech and language therapy mental health team the post-holder will provide a specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to mental health service users. Ideally you will have experience either with older adults with mental health problems, or children and young people. But you will contribute to meeting the needs of mental health service users across the organisation and supporting the training and development of junior staff, deputising for the principal SLT as required. This is an exciting opportunity to help us develop the SaLT service for people with mental health conditions and to develop your own expert skills in communication and dysphagia approaches. You will have great support from our growing community of SaLTs here in Leeds as we work together to establish an innovative SaLT service across mental health services in this vibrant city.

Main duties of the job

You will be an experienced speech and language therapist, with dysphagia competencies and be able to work effectively and independently within multi-disciplinary settings.

We encourage joint MDT working, personal development and research interests, please ring for a chat about what we can offer you.

Support will be provided by the SLT forum, principal SLT and AHP leads, as well as the older peoples services team.

About us

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.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

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.

Date posted

04 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year Per Annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

173-90423-ACUTE

Job locations

St Marys Hospital (Hybrid/Remote working arrangement)

Leeds

LS7 3JX

Job description

Job responsibilities

The post-holder will predominately provide a specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to older adults with mental health problems. They will work as part of several Multi-Disciplinary Teams meeting the range of needs of service users. In addition they will work as part of the Speech and Language therapy team to provide clinical input as required across mental health services as identified by the principle Speech and Language therapist.

The post holder will liaise with and respond to the training needs of all appropriate staff groups, developing specialist training programmes. They will offer services to service users with mental health problems who have communication and eating and drinking difficulties. The post-holder will support registered and non-registered staff allocated to implement the specialized plans of care developed to support communication plans and support safe eating and drinking.

Post holder will propose policy and service changes, work with research and development and provide day to day professional and clinical supervision to other staff within the services and deputise as required for the principle speech and language therapist to ensure clinical needs of service users are met across mental health care services.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered SLT

Skills

Essential

Skills in dysphagia management

Experience

Essential

Experience of mental health or dementia, or children and young people

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

HCPC registered SLT

Skills

Essential

Skills in dysphagia management

Experience

Essential

Experience of mental health or dementia, or children and young people

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Marys Hospital (Hybrid/Remote working arrangement)

Leeds

LS7 3JX

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St Marys Hospital (Hybrid/Remote working arrangement)

Leeds

LS7 3JX

Employer's website

https://www.leedsandyorkpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)