Job Title: Speech and Language Therapist
Agency: Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Location: Horsham, United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: 38,682 – 46,580 £ / Year

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Job Summary

Do you want to advocate for people with a learning disability to communicate and live well?

As a Speech and Language Therapist in the Community Learning Disability Team, you will use your clinical expertise and experience to support people with the most complex needs to live well with their learning disability. This is a Band 6 role, but it can be adapted to suit a more newly qualified Speech & Language Therapist at a Band 5, and preceptorship and appropriate training would be provided as required.

You will provide specialist communication and dysphagia assessments and interventions for people referred to the service, as well as being an integral member of a very friendly and supportive team of SaLT’s and wider multi-disciplinary team. You will have the autonomy to manage your own diary and opportunities for hybrid working. This post is a full-time post.

Please contact either the Team Leader or the Principal Speech and Language Therapist if you would like to discuss the role further.

Main duties of the job

Contributing to the management of a team caseload of individuals with complex needs, you will assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions, which will be delivered in a variety of community settings. The team encourages multi-disciplinary working wherever possible, and you will convene, facilitate, and contribute to meetings to develop a holistic understanding of the person and their needs.

1. To manage a caseload of adults with learning disabilities who have complex communication difficulties and dysphagia/eating/drinking/swallowing difficulties.
2. To promote and enable service user and carer involvement and choice in intervention options.
3. To understand a client’s learning capacity and to approach gaining informed consent in ways that demonstrate good practice and conform to Trust consent policies. To ensure that consent is approached within the legal framework for clients who may be deemed to lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
4. To undertake the Team Lead Practitioner role. This involves coordinating the care provided by the multidisciplinary team, organising and chairing meetings, and updating clinical plans.
5. To undertake a comprehensive assessment of clients referred using investigative and analytic skills, to formulate an individualised management and treatment programme.
6. To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures.

How to Apply;

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