Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Inpatient CAMHS

Job overview

This role is perfect for a SLT with post-graduate experience of working with autistic young people, who is keen to develop and extend their assessment and therapeutic skills in this specialist area. The successful applicant will be fully supported to develop both professionally and personally in this role.

Parkview Clinic provides regional inpatient mental health care to young people aged 11 to 18 years, via their specialist eating disorder and general adolescent wards.

Through SLT leadership, the service has achieved Specialist Autism Accreditation Status; formal recognition of high-quality care provided to autistic patients. Although not an autism-specific service, this is highly relevant as autistic people are significantly more vulnerable to developing mental health conditions than the general population.

The successful applicant will join the established inpatient SLT team and become an integral member of the wider multidisciplinary team. They will have a key role in contributing to the multidisciplinary assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of those patients who additionally have autism/social communication and/or language difficulties.

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Main duties of the job

• To work as part of the MDT CAMHS inpatient team providing a specialist SLT service to young people admitted with significant mental health needs.
• To provide specialist SLT diagnostic assessment of young people who present with additional complex social communication and language difficulties/autism.
• To provide ongoing SLT care, treatment and management to patients under your care and to their families and community teams.
• As part of the inpatient SLT team, to advocate for and ensure patient care is autism affirming, trauma-informed and culturally competent.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.

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