Speech and Language Therapist

Speech and Language Therapist (Development Role B5-6) Join to apply for the Speech and Language Therapist (Development Role B5-6) role at Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT). We are looking to recruit a highly motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to work within our Intensive Support Service. The intensive support service provides specialist multidisciplinary community intensive support to adults with learning disabilities who are in crisis due to escalation in behaviours of concern and/or deterioration of their mental health. The focus of the service is to support individuals to remain in their home, to prevent, where possible, the breakdown of care arrangements/placement and prevent admission to hospital. The service acts as a gateway to the inpatient assessment and treatment service and works in close liaison with inpatient services to facilitate appropriate admission and timely discharge from services. The team operates 9am-5pm 365 days of the year and works with service users in a variety of health and social care settings across Norfolk and Waveney. You will be forward thinking and able to demonstrate clinical knowledge in the area of adult learning disabilities based on current evidence. You will autonomously undertake specialist assessments and interventions with individuals with both communication difficulties and dysphagia. Work within the Norfolk and Waveney Intensive Support Service to offer SLT assessment and intervention for service users with learning disability, mental health issues and complex needs. Collaborate in partnership with the individual, the individual's carers/family members and members of the multidisciplinary team. Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country. Our family of over 4000 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services. Our Trust Values: Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional. These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be? For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catherine Colston Job title: Health Team Manager Email address: catherine.colston1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01553 666680. Seniority Level Entry level. Employment Type Full-time. Job Function Health Care Provider. Industry: Mental Health Care. #J-18808-Ljbffr