Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust
Band 6 Bank Speech and Language Therapist - Salisbury
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Bank Band 6 SLT Opportunity
We have an opportunity for a Bank Band 6 SLT to join the Trust Wide SLT adult inpatient mental health service on a Bank basis. Most clinical work will be based at Fountain Way Hospital in Salisbury.
About the Role
You will work with a high degree of autonomy, providing specialist dysphagia and communication assessment and intervention on working age and older adult mental health wards, and training staff in screening and managing patients’ swallowing and communication needs.
Desired Experience
Experience in mental health or dementia is desirable. However, if you have a background in learning disability, autism, acquired/progressive neurological conditions and developmental SLCN, you will have highly relevant, transferable skills and will be considered if you demonstrate a passion or curiosity for further development in mental health.
You will be involved in the supervision and training of newly appointed B4 SLT assistant practitioners and experience of supervision and support of junior staff would be important for potential candidates to demonstrate.
Responsibilities
- Be part of the trust-wide SLT network, which organises regular CPD and professional support sessions.
- To provide a specialist speech and language therapy (SLT) service to adult inpatients with disorders of communication and/or swallowing in Salisbury.
- Highly skilled assessment and treatment of communication difficulties and eating and drinking difficulties within a caseload of people with complex and enduring mental health disorders.
- Providing written information regarding patients’ communication and dysphagia needs in the form of reports, care plans and easy read information.
- Providing ongoing education to ward and catering staff in the recognition and management of dysphagia.
- Providing ongoing education to ward staff in understanding communication difficulties and developing skills in how best to support people with communication needs.
- Engaging in joint goal setting with the patient, family and wider MDT.
- Advocating for the value of Speech & Language Therapy to the MDT in the diagnosis and management of complex communication and swallowing disorders in the inpatient mental health population.
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About Us
We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
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We aim to provide High Quality, Compassionate Care everywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all-round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.
Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200 miles, to more than 1.8 million people.
At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Gemma Collins
- Job title: Head of Profession for Nutrition and Dietetics
- Email address: gemmacollins@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07738264490
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