Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and committed Speech & Language Therapist to join our established specialist Learning Disability Services based in Gloucestershire.

Person-centred coordinated care is a fundamental value throughout all services delivered byGloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trustand we are keen to find enthusiastic and motivated clinicians to help us continue to deliver this.

Speech and Language Therapy enjoys a high profile within the Trust and currently there over 10.0 WTE posts across our services. We enjoy excellent working relationships with colleagues from other professions and close multi-disciplinary working is firmly embedded in our culture.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
- Provide speech & language therapy input to adults with learning disabilities referred to Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust Speech and Language Therapy Service
- To provide specialist communication assessment and interventions to individuals or groups of service users
- To provide eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users
- 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 for Speech and Language Therapy Students
- To carry out delegated tasks in policy development

The successful applicant will be joining a dedicated, supportive and sociable team and will have the opportunity to work alongside other therapists and clinicians from across the multi-disciplinary team.

We are proactive in ongoing service development, we welcome feedback from all team members and are looking for someone who is creative and passionate about service improvement initiatives. We are well respected within the Trust and by members of the wider multi-disciplinary teams.

We have a strong ethos for continuing professional development and a range of both in-house and external training is available and career development is encouraged through your regular personal development reviews.

The service offers regular clinical, line management and peer supervision.

You will work alongside other dedicated colleagues from psychiatry, psychology, nursing, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, to share knowledge and skills. You will be expected to liaise and support service users, carers and professionals across services and agencies.

We offer excellent line management, clinical support and supervision. Ongoing professional development CPD is actively encouraged and supported.
- To assess, develop and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment and intervention; ensuring that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
- To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness, using evidence based practice, adapting practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances; including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences, and by evaluating outcomes
- To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users/service users with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties
- To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties
- To demonstrate good negotiation skills across a range of issues and to negotiate with others regarding complex case management issues

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a ‘Veteran Aware Trust’, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right-hand side, titled ‘Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance’.

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.

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