Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

2 weeks ago


Portland, United Kingdom Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting new challenge has arisen for highly specialist speech and language therapist (SALT) to join Oxleas NHS trust in our South West prisons. This is a brand-new service and we are looking for a experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join our highly specialist multidisciplinary teams in the South West.

We are recruiting for a part time (22.5 hrs/0.6 WTE) Speech and Language Therapist to work across our 2 sites in Portland, HMP Portland & HMP The Verne. You will report directly to our Operational Lead SALT for the South West. You will support play a key role in implementing our vision and integration into our established healthcare services.

As SALT's, you will complement our multidisciplinary team and bridge the gap between existing learning disability (LD) provision and offender healthcare services providing assessments, consultation and co-working with complex clients with LD and autism who present a risk of harm to others. The service will also support service users with a complex mix of neurodevelopmental, speech, language, and communication, dysphagia, mental health, and intellectual disability needs who are high-risk, high-harm, high-vulnerability individuals.

This role is based across HMP's Portland and The Verne. We are open to working patterns and this can be discussed with the hiring manager.

As a highly specialist Speech and Language therapist, you will provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessments and interventions for service users who have a variety of complex communication and/or swallowing needs. This will include adults with neurodiversity and neurological conditions.

You will independently manage your own caseload, accessing clinical and managerial supervision on a regular basis. Whilst doing so, you will act as part of a multi-disciplinary team and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service within your region.

As a specialist in your field, you will provide specialist advice to prison officers, other speech and language therapists, professionals, and stakeholders within and outside of the Prison/Trust with regards to their specialist area, ensuring carers and family are involved in care where appropriate/possible.

This role will require you to provide compassionate, non-judgemental care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.

Oxleas - About Us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
We’re Kind

We’re Fair

We Listen

We Care

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Devon and Dorset in addition to the above.

Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England.

Management responsibilities

To induct, train, review work performance and clinically supervise/appraise colleagues, as identified.

To contribute to the development of Speech and Language Therapy Service policies and procedures, including participation in projects and quality improvement initiatives.

To contribute to the service development through relevant meetings and working groups.

To plan and deliver training courses

Communicate regularly through team meetings, Busin



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