North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust
Learning Disability Speech and Language Therapist
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Are you a Speech and Language Therapist who wants to work creatively with service users with learning disabilities and complex specialist health needs? Do you enjoy multi-disciplinary teamwork? Are you motivated by innovation and developing services that place the service user at the centre of care?
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist. Initially this is a permanent, part time, 18.75 hours post within the Intensive Support Team based in Hanley at the Hope Centre.
We are seeking a highly motivated, organised and skilled Speech and Language Therapist with a background or previous experience in Learning Disabilities, to work as part of our dedicated Multi-disciplinary Team.
The post holder will be expected to provide assessment, diagnosis and appropriate speech and language therapy intervention for clients in collaboration with service users, their carers and other professionals to respond to episodes of challenging behaviour/crisis intervention.
Support in the role is from an experienced Senior Speech and Language Therapist, who will provide guidance/support with continued professional development. This is an excellent opportunity for anyone who enjoys a variety of work where each day brings satisfaction and new challenges.
Working as a member of the Intensive Support Team (IST) The Speech and Language Therapist (SALT) will manage a defined caseload, consistent with high quality evidence-based practice work.
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The role specifically includes the assessment, care planning, care delivery, signposting and education of a client’s speech, language, communication, eating, drinking and swallowing needs.
The SALT practitioner will work to the IST Model of care and intervention. To provide community based rapid response, intensive assessment, treatment and interventions to individuals with highly complex needs who are experiencing an increase in personal difficulties. To provide a realistic alternative to hospital admission by providing intensive support to service users within their own community settings at the time they most need it to avoid further deterioration. To enhance staff and carers skills in supporting people with a learning disability who challenge services. The service is wholly committed to the use of Person-Centred Planning approaches and affording adults with learning disabilities opportunities to maximize full citizenship, choice and control.
As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.
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We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.
We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike.
The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.
The Trust is committed to the Step into Health scheme and actively encourages applicants from the Armed Forces Communities to apply.
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Vicki Gill
- Job title: Team Manager
- Email address: victoria.gill@combined.nhs.uk
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