Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Adults Autism Intensive Support Team– Speech and Language Therapist band 7

Do you want to work with individuals in mental health crisis who have diagnosis of Autism then please read on…

Base; Wayside House; but will be required to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire

Part time hours considered -To support individuals at key times, some work may be required outside of usual office hours.

Job overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Speech and Language Therapist to be part of our Adults Autism Intensive Support Team for Coventry and Warwickshire.

If you are driven, passionate and to want to work with Autistic individuals who are in mental health crisis and are at risk of admission to hospital, then we want to hear from you.

The team is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team currently consisting of Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Nursing and social workers.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job:

Clinical assessments

• Communication plans
• Specialist speech interventions
• Reviewing targets
• Risk assessments
• Autism informed interventions to reduce the risk of an admission due to mental health crisis
• Trauma informed practice
• Creating autism informed personal profiles as part of a MDT
• Providing individualised training to families and care providers

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Detailed job description and main responsibilities:

As a team we work systemically to understand and support the significant impact and challenges experienced by adults with autism who are in  mental health crisis, and their families.

In order to do this, we work with the network around the adult (e.g.Adult Mental Health, Social Care, Education) and work closely with commissioners. As a speech and language therapist nurse you will have experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working as you will need to attend and chair regular MDT’s, CETR’s and EMDT’s.

As a Speech and Language Therapist you would visit the adult in their home or in appropriate setting multiple times a week to engage them and carry out our assessments and interventions.

This is an exciting time to join our Team as we mature and expand and continue to look for innovative ways to support the families we work with. If you are passionate and motivated and are driven to prevent children and adults with autism and mental health needs from being admitted to hospital, then we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Team Leader Kami Basra on telephone: 02476 961397 Email [email protected] or Ann Cordery email; [email protected]