Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to play a key role in the continued development of a specialist multidisciplinary CAMHS Learning Disability team working across Hampshire.

You will join a small, dedicated and highly skilled group of professionals who are passionate about developing a responsive and specialist offer for children and young people with moderate to severe learning disabilities, alongside mental health needs and complex behaviours that challenge. This role offers the chance to make a real and meaningful impact on service development as well as clinical practice.

The team includes an experienced Occupational Therapist and is keen to expand its Allied Health Professional workforce. As our Speech and Language Therapist, you will be a valued member of the team, contributing clinical expertise, creativity and leadership to help evolve the service.

You will also be part of the wider Allied Health Professional community within Hampshire CAMHS -- a growing, supportive and forward thinking group of clinicians. You will receive regular supervision and have access to a range of training and development opportunities both within the Trust and externally.

The main focus of the role will be delivering universal and targeted support, including developing accessible resources, leading on accessible information, and offering consultation to the MDT and wider CAMHS services.

Main duties of the job

This post offers an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in shaping and strengthening Speech and Language Therapy provision within a specialist multidisciplinary CAMHS Learning Disability team. The post holder will be responsible for reviewing and developing SALT pathways across the MDT, ensuring communication needs are fully considered within clinical decisionmaking.

A key focus of the role will be leading on the Universal Offer, embedding accessible information and communicationfriendly practice into everyday CAMHS working. This includes identifying and implementing reasonable adjustments within clinical environments that can be adopted across the wider service.

The Speech and Language Therapist will deliver dropin clinics, training and consultation to support skill development within the MDT and contribute to the broader CAMHS consultation offer. The role also includes providing specialist case consultation, prioritising complex presentations and adapted interventions. Where local provision is unable to meet need due to complexity, the post holder may offer specialist SALT assessment and intervention.

You will support the development of accessible resources and workshops for parents and carers, empowering them with practical strategies to support their child's communication needs alongside mental health difficulties.

The role involves working across Hampshire with MDT colleagues and contributing to conversations about delivering sustainable, effective and highquality clinical care.

Job responsibilities

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence