Clinical Lead/ Advanced Speech and Language
2 months ago
This is an ideal post for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist with an interest in working in a Mental Health inpatient service. With the main base at The Redwoods Shrewsbury, the role involves working for 3 days a week across adult acute inpatient wards. Post holders will take responsibility for a complex caseload of service users with communication and swallowing difficulties requiring an acute inpatient admission.
The post holder will be responsible for working primarily across
inpatient acute mental health wards, adult and older adult specialities.
The post holder will be responsible for managing a complex
caseload, responsible for clinical and caseload supervision, training of
other team members where identified such as AHP Assistants.
The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist
Speech and Language Therapy assessment, interventions and
advice in the clinical area of complex dysphagia and
communication needs.
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
Supporting your career development and progression
Excellent NHS Pension scheme
Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
Options for flexible working
Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
Free car parking at all trust sites
Free flu vaccinations every year
Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
**Main duties and responsibilities (Clinical)**:
- Ensure the delivery of high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, interventions and evaluations across Mental Health In patient services based at The Redwoods. The work is largely across older adult wards working with people with cognitive impairment.
- Demonstrate high personal standards in clinical practice.
- Ensure interventions are provided in line with NICE Guidance, RCSLT guidelines including other relevant local and national documentation. -Responsible for prioritising workload, allocation of work to oneself and other staff, and to cover all levels of priority of
work within the service.
- Provide specific swallowing assessments, communication assessments and advice, as part of the single assessment process, culminating in an agreed plan of action and or care and intervention. This would include the use of recognised/agreed standardised Speech and Language Therapy assessment tools alongside profession specific and generic outcome measures
- Make clinical judgements backed up by clinical reasoning and recommendations regarding appropriate actions/sign posting in consultation with multi-disciplinary staff and in accordance with the service specification.
- Carry out specialist assessments (within service specification) to identify swallowing and communication needs for in
- patient service users and if indicated develop an agreed action plan of care.
- Complete and contribute, where appropriate to robust risk assessments and risk management plans.
- Deliver a range of speech and language interventions following specific speech and language therapy assessments to enable understanding of any expression of an unmet need and to maximise an individuals abilities.
- Lead the management of a complex caseload, which includes specialist assessment (within service specification), care planning in conjunction with service user and carer, evaluation of individual treatment plans (Care Programme Approach and Single Assessment Process).
- Attend clinical meetings as appropriate to facilitate a safe and timely discharge into a community setting.
- Knowledge of national, regional and local drivers underpinning service delivery including the provisions of the Mental Health Act 1983 (revised 2007) regulations including Mental Capacity Act (2005), RCSLT Guidelines
- Up to date knowledge and experience of clinical developments in Adult Mental Health.
- Adhere to RCSLT, HCPC Professional Code of Practice, Standards and Guidelines, and understand how to raise concerns if poor practice is witnessed
- Implement highly developed physical skills pertinent to the area of specialism, for example manual handling, computer and keyboard skills, health and safety, de-escalation skills and
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