Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

We are seeking a highly motivated, and experienced Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist to provide communication and dysphagia assessment and intervention for service users within Herts Secure Learning Disability and Mental Health Units. The two secure and one medium secure units provide high levels of assessment and intervention to service users with mental health, intellectual and other developmental disabilities detained under the Mental Health Act.

This post offers the exciting opportunity to work within a developing area of Speech and Language Therapy, offering services to people with complex and enduring problems, including criminal offending. The person successful in their application will be an essential member of the MDT team, working alongside Medical, Nursing, OT, Psychology and Social Work colleagues to enable service users to recognise areas of difficulty (both in communication and dysphagia), develop effective skills and participate in therapeutic interventions.

The post offers good links with SLT colleagues throughout HPFT services, with regular supervision, opportunities for CPD and training. There is a strong ethos of Continuous Quality Improvement throughout the service and the Trust as a whole, overall creating possibilities for developing and extending knowledge and skills

Main duties of the job

To manage a caseload, using evidence based person centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate

To provide assessment/interventions to service users within Herts secure services who present with communication challenges and identify those with dysphagia needs

To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team

To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users within Herts secure services, including those with: profound learning disabilities, additional sensory and/.or physical disability, mental health diagnosis and/or challenging behaviours

To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users presenting with dysphagia

To be responsible for managing a defined caseload, in the context of the service caseload, with ongoing evaluation of clinical

To work with and be available to other SLT's and generic technicians for support and joint consultation regarding clinical practice as

To plan and implement individual interventions, in collaboration with the service user and carer

About us

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.

Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?

Then please read on...

Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Warren court

Woodside Road

Abbots Langley

WD5 0HT

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Warren court

Woodside Road

Abbots Langley

WD5 0HT

Employer's website

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

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