Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

The current post is split across Marydale and Barton Moss Secure Children’s Homes and the post holder will be embedded as a senior individual in a health team consisting of mental and physical healthcare professionals.
Marydale Secure Children’s Home is run by Nugent Care and provides secure accommodation with education for young males and females, who have been placed on Welfare Orders. The post holder would be an integral member of the health team, who have been rated as ‘outstanding’ by CQC three years in a row.
Barton Moss is run by Salford Council and provides custodial care with education and healthcare for young males, aged 12 to 18 years. Barton Moss consists of two 6-bedded admission units, and two 6-bedded longer term units.
The young people present with a range of diverse needs including complex trauma, neurodiversity, and common mental health difficulties (e.g., anxiety and depression). These cooccur alongside concerns about risk to themselves and / or others, as well as risk from others.
Each of the homes implements the national SECURE STAIRS framework which affords exciting opportunities for partnership working including consultation, training, supervision and formulation, as well as innovative service development activities. The care is formulation lead and trauma informed.
The postholder will provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy to service users (some of whom may present with very high-risk behaviours) and colleagues, across the two secure settings.
The postholder will be responsible for maintaining evidence based and person-centered clinical practice in line with all local and national standards. They will practice within their own competencies and identify their ongoing continuing professional development needs with their line manager.
The postholder will likely be working as the only Speech and Language Therapist within a particular setting and will be expected to maintain active clinical supervision (including peer supervision) with the wider Speech and Language Therapy team across GMMH and with national peers.
Within these dynamic multi-disciplinary teams, the post holder will work with operational and professional leads to ensure that the Speech and Language Therapy service continues to meet the need of its designated populations.
Greater Manchester Mental Health (GMMH) Foundation Trust employs over 7000 members of staff, who deliver services from more than 160 locations.
We provide inpatient and community-based mental health care for people living in Bolton, the city of Manchester, Salford, Trafford and the borough of Wigan, and a wide range of specialist mental health and substance misuse services across Greater Manchester, the north west of England and beyond.
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Professional & Clinical
Adhere to safeguarding policies/procedures.
Be responsible for evidence-based speech and language therapy input comprising assessment, diagnosis and intervention to a highly specialist adolescent mental health caseload.
Provide consultative input around service users’ speech, language and communication needs both within local multi -disciplinary teams and within multi agency professional meetings, providing recommendations to locality teams.
Engage and communicate clearly, respectfully, effectively and compassionately with young people, their families and carers under challenging and emotive circumstances.
Set appropriate treatment aims and objectives in negotiation with the service user, carers and the MDT, with respect to wider clinical priorities.
Guide the MDT in the adaptation of information to service users’ needs, facilitating engagement between service users, their carers and professionals and resolving barriers to communication where possible.
Devise Speech and Language Therapy programmes of care and equip others to implement them, monitoring and revising implementation as appropriate.
Discharge service users when intervention is complete and/or refer service users on to relevant services when appropriate.
Produce, disseminate and update verbal and written reports /recommendations regarding individual assessment, diagnosis and care in a timely manner with adherence to information governance. Reports to be produced in appropriate format for a variety of purposes, (including statutory reports).
Integrate assessment findings into multidisciplinary formulation of the service user’s presenting needs.
Adapt practice to meet service users’ cultural, linguistic, cog