Speech and Language Therapist

7 months ago

Stroud, United Kingdom Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Are you an experienced speech and language therapist passionate about supporting adults with learning disabilities? We have an exciting opportunity to work up to 30 hours per week across both our Learning Disability inpatients facility and our Community Learning Disability Team, both situated in Stroud, which is within easy commuting distance from Bristol.

Working as part of a talented and friendly MDT, you will support people in live their best lives in the community. You will provide assessment, therapy and training in Berkeley House, a seven-bedded assessment and treatment service for people with learning disabilities, behaviours that may challenge, autism or co morbid mental health issues.

It is an exciting time to join, as Berkeley House goes through transformation to extend their service to offer outreach into the community to support people in their homes and prevent admission.

We provide excellent appraisal, mentoring and clinical supervision, and you will benefit from working closely with highly experienced and approachable speech and language therapists. We can also support you through your post graduate dysphagia training.

Person-centred coordinated care is a fundamental value throughout services delivered by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and we are keen for you to help us continue to deliver this.

Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist communication assessment and interventions to individuals or groups of service users
- To provide specialised eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users
- To support the provision of a specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service to adults with learning disabilities in order to meet their communication needs
- To provide education, training, support and advice to colleagues and carers to enable them to provide the best possible care and quality of life for clients
- To provide clinical supervision for less experienced Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Students
- To carry out delegated tasks in policy development

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust, we are supportive of the people we care for in the community and aim to provide a fully responsive service to everyone who needs it. This is the same approach we take for our employees. We look to value the skills and experiences of those we work with, whether they are service users, carers, families or those looking to work with us.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is part of the NHS. We treat NHS patients according to NHS principles and standards. The difference is the Trust is accountable to local people, rather than to Government, and so we are able to work closely with our community to develop services in the way that best suits the needs of local people.

Our Staff Survey results showed people at our Trust feel they are engaged, part of a team and work for a compassionate and inclusive organisation.

Our overall scores were better than average in eight of nine themes and level in one - the best overall results for a community, mental health and learning disabilities Trust in the south west and first equal amongst all sector NHS providers within the region too.

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people’s skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

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