Job summary
We are pleased to offer a variety of band 7 roles within our wider Speech & Language Therapy Service.. We welcome applicants who are interested in applying for mixed or individual roles. There may be opportunities for the ICATT 2 year fixed term contract to be made permanent in the future.
No 1: Alexander House: 15 hours/ week - permanent.
No 2: Community Intensive Assessment and Treatment Teams (ICATT): 15 hours/ week - 2 years fixed term contract.
No 3: Liaison & Diversion - 22.5hrs/ week- 12 month maternity leave.
Should you be looking for full time work, please contact us: We have additional opportunities for bank sessions across a variety of settings within the service. We use bank hours to flexibly enhance our service in a range of ways and to meet ad hoc requests for specialist assessments.
The successful candidate will join the well-established and respected Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service in Intellectual and Developmental Disability Services within Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.
You will be well supported by senior colleagues, with many opportunities for peer support. The role involves close work with colleagues from a range of disciplines and the post is supported by an assistant SLT.
You will enjoy close links with our team and our SLT colleagues within the East Midlands, and benefit from excellent levels of support, supervision, IT and CPD opportunities.
Main duties of the job
All three services support adults with intellectual disabilities and a range of neurodevelopmental conditions to live well with mental health needs.
At Alexander House, the overall purpose is to support the inpatient population back to living well in the community having undertaken bespoke therapy to reduce their risks and increase their ability to succeed in community settings.
The ICATT teams' overall purpose is to support the individual and their carers to maintain positive relationships to avoid placement breakdown and admission to hospital.
The purpose of L&D is to provide support for vulnerable service users who are going through the Criminal Justice system. This includes Nottingham and Mansfield custody suites and Nottingham Crown and Magistrates courts.
Across all settings you will be supporting these aims with your specialist communication knowledge and your understanding of the individual's needs based on the assessments and observation you will be undertaking.
You may also support assessment and management of eating and drinking difficulties/ dysphagia.
All of the services are multidisciplinary teams and you will be instrumental in the holistic formulation of the individual's needs and care plans through functional and environmental communication perspective to the discussion (using the 5 Good Communication Standards as one of the principles of inclusive communication).
About us
We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.
We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.
Do you want to make a difference?
Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?
Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Your focus will be communication, communication, communication (!) recognising the link between unmet communication needs and mental health problems:
Specialist speech, language, and communication assessments focusing on functional communication and what reasonable adjustments (Accessible Information Standards) should be in place to support the persons needs.
Liaison, advice and recommendations that aim to prevent further communication breakdown and that aim to empower the person to express their thoughts and opinions to the extent they wishes. You will work in an interactive and a consultative way.
The role will also involve assessing and developing the management of eating and drinking difficulties for individuals, where issues arise due to a variety of physiological, cognitive and environmental reasons.
Co-working with your MDT colleagues, families, and carers to enable their inclusive communication practices in their relationships, care, and interactions with the individual.
Attendance at meetings with and on behalf of ICATT and the individual to plan for ongoing and accessible care.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Your focus will be communication, communication, communication (!) recognising the link between unmet communication needs and mental health problems:
Specialist speech, language, and communication assessments focusing on functional communication and what reasonable adjustments (Accessible Information Standards) should be in place to support the persons needs.
Liaison, advice and recommendations that aim to prevent further communication breakdown and that aim to empower the person to express their thoughts and opinions to the extent they wishes. You will work in an interactive and a consultative way.
The role will also involve assessing and developing the management of eating and drinking difficulties for individuals, where issues arise due to a variety of physiological, cognitive and environmental reasons.
Co-working with your MDT colleagues, families, and carers to enable their inclusive communication practices in their relationships, care, and interactions with the individual.
Attendance at meetings with and on behalf of ICATT and the individual to plan for ongoing and accessible care.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree and registration with HCPC
- Masters degree or postgraduate experience and training to an equivalent level
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Drivers license valid in the UK and access to a car for work purposes
- Registered with HCPC
Training
Essential
- Dysphagia competent with expert skills in intellectual disabilities and mental health
- Completion of additional training to enhance evidence-based provision around intellectual disabilities and mental health, e.g. trauma-informed care, PBS, Comic Strip Conversations etc
Desirable
- Evidence of completing management skills development training
- Completion of adapted DBT-based training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within community intellectual disabilities services with a focus on supporting complex presentations, avoiding hospital admissions and placement breakdowns.
- Extensive experience of working with families and individuals with intellectual disabilities as part of an MDT.
- Extensive post registration experience, including experience of working as a senior clinician in Intellectual Disabilities.
- Experience of working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary and -inter-disciplinary professionals and utilising triangle of care approaches.
- Experience of caseload management, including working with clients with a wide range of mental health difficulties and behaviours of concern
- Experience of developing and delivering training packages regarding intellectual disabilities, mental health, behaviours of concern, communication, dysphagia and risk
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of leadership and the management of staff within these fields.
- Experience and skills in supervision and appraisal of staff.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound understanding of the principles underpinning the Transforming Care agenda
Desirable
- Sound understanding of the principles of PBS
- Awareness of the The national strategy for autistic children, young people and adults
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed verbal and written, influencing, negotiation and communication skills
- Ability to network and liaise with a wide range of other people and services
- Specialist assessment skills including risk assessment and management around the communication and dysphagia needs of the intellectual disabilities population
- Ability to autonomously manage complex cases, analyse complex information and offer sound clinical guidance, advise others and make effective decisions
- Be committed to empowering the intellectual disabilities population who access the service, as well as promoting and meeting the needs of the socially excluded
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised degree and registration with HCPC
- Masters degree or postgraduate experience and training to an equivalent level
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Drivers license valid in the UK and access to a car for work purposes
- Registered with HCPC
Training
Essential
- Dysphagia competent with expert skills in intellectual disabilities and mental health
- Completion of additional training to enhance evidence-based provision around intellectual disabilities and mental health, e.g. trauma-informed care, PBS, Comic Strip Conversations etc
Desirable
- Evidence of completing management skills development training
- Completion of adapted DBT-based training
Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within community intellectual disabilities services with a focus on supporting complex presentations, avoiding hospital admissions and placement breakdowns.
- Extensive experience of working with families and individuals with intellectual disabilities as part of an MDT.
- Extensive post registration experience, including experience of working as a senior clinician in Intellectual Disabilities.
- Experience of working collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary and -inter-disciplinary professionals and utilising triangle of care approaches.
- Experience of caseload management, including working with clients with a wide range of mental health difficulties and behaviours of concern
- Experience of developing and delivering training packages regarding intellectual disabilities, mental health, behaviours of concern, communication, dysphagia and risk
Desirable
- Knowledge and experience of leadership and the management of staff within these fields.
- Experience and skills in supervision and appraisal of staff.
Knowledge
Essential
- Sound understanding of the principles underpinning the Transforming Care agenda
Desirable
- Sound understanding of the principles of PBS
- Awareness of the The national strategy for autistic children, young people and adults
Skills
Essential
- Highly developed verbal and written, influencing, negotiation and communication skills
- Ability to network and liaise with a wide range of other people and services
- Specialist assessment skills including risk assessment and management around the communication and dysphagia needs of the intellectual disabilities population
- Ability to autonomously manage complex cases, analyse complex information and offer sound clinical guidance, advise others and make effective decisions
- Be committed to empowering the intellectual disabilities population who access the service, as well as promoting and meeting the needs of the socially excluded
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
