Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Are you seeking a speech & language therapy role within a well-established multi-disciplinary team of skilled and experienced clinicians? If you want to develop your own clinical skills with a people who have a Learning Disability in the community this could be the post for you.

This role gives the post holder a unique opportunity to work with a large Specialist Learning Disability Team and to  develop their knowledge and skills.

Our Speech & Language Therapists work with adults who have communication and/or swallowing difficulties so must be Dysphagia trained also for this role.

We work in community settings, including home visits and clinics and work as an MDT including Nursing, OT, Physio and Psychology practitioners

We value CPD and carry out robust clinical supervision and appraisals to encourage therapists’ specialist interests and innovation

Main duties of the job

To provide evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention to service users who have communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties and have a diagnosis of Learning Disability.

The role will be integrated within the multi -disciplinary team and will work with the team to develop person-centred care plans.

Supervision will be provided by a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist.

To participate as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist with specific responsibility to assess and treat adults with complex health needs.

To be responsible for the delivery of specialist assessment, diagnosis, treatment, delivery and evaluation of evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy intervention in the community for clients with communication and swallowing disorders, such as dysphagia.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible and accountable for their own caseload and ensure that care plans are written and reviewed regularly.

To contribute to the prioritisation of the waiting list for Speech and Language Therapy.

To complete Holistic assessments on behalf of the team and feedback to the multi-disciplinary team and support duty process in the team.

To work alongside and liaise with other professionals within the team, staff at day centres, care staff and families.

To provide clinical advice and assessment to these on the communication and swallowing needs of clients, resolving areas of conflict as necessary.

To provide specialist knowledge on alternative and augmentative systems of communication, where appropriate. To ensure that all relevant agencies have access to all systems.

To Identify and take responsibility for allocating work and providing supervision to Speech and Language Therapy assistants.

To provide training days to staff teams around specific individual’s communication to devise strategies and management plans.