Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Unique opportunity to join a team of mental health speech and language therapists working across the Trust's adult mental health wards. This is a Specialist Speech and Language Therapy (Band 6) role and would ideally suit an experienced practitioner with the desire to help deliver a high-quality service to people living with mental health needs and/or dementia.

You will be supported by a more experienced speech and language therapist. The team is led by a Principal Speech and Language Therapist (Band 8a) in Mental Health and Dementia. There are currently opportunities to support student speech and language therapists.

The post holder will be based at Langley Green Hospital and will need to able to travel for meetings and training to other sites on occasions.

Experience in mental health and/or dementia is advantageous.

By joining our team, you will benefit from:

• Strong supportive teams with dedicated supportive leaders
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A service that works to develop clear evidence-based care pathways

Main duties of the job

You will already possess a broad range of skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including dementia, mental health conditions, acquired neurological conditions, learning disabilities and neurodiversity. Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD to develop skills gaps.

As well as direct assessments and interventions, speech and language therapy will be delivered by increasing the skills and competencies of other staff on wards.

You will have support from and work collaboratively within the speech and language therapy professional group which spans the whole of Sussex and includes a large team of learning disability, neurodevelopmental and mental health specialist speech and language therapists.

You will be collaborating across services to deliver results. We work closely with colleagues in social care, primary care and other specialist secondary services.

This is a great opportunity to use the skills you have developed across a broad range of care pathways.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide mental health speech and language therapy services to inpatients who have communication or swallowing needs in an acute mental health hospital.
• To provide the day-to-day speech and language therapy input within the multi-disciplinary team on the designated wards across the hospital.
• To contribute actively to planning, evaluating and development of the service.
• To provide leadership through supervision of speech and language therapy students as required.
• Ensure effective liaison with other services within the locality including voluntary, statutory and community resources, as well as social services.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.