Speech & Language Therapist Band 5-6 Development Post
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 -6 Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) to join our friendly and supportive team in the North London Forensic Service.
This post will involve working on our medium and low secure inpatient wards in Enfield with an emphasis on working on the secure wards for people with a mild learning disability and mental health disorders. It will also involve some work in community teams alongside another SLT.
This is a new post and will require flexibility of working according to the fluctuating and developing needs of the service. It will provide excellent opportunities for professional development.
Main Duties of the Job
The successful applicant will be supported to work within multidisciplinary teams. They will be responsible for assessment and management of individuals with a range of communication needs including mild/moderate learning disability, autistic spectrum disorder and/or a mental health condition impacting upon communication. They will offer advice, training and consultation to non-speech and language therapy colleagues.
A willingness to embrace the challenges of working within environments with diverse and disadvantaged client groups will be required. Strong engagement skills are important, as is the ability to work well with other professionals.
There will be regular professional supervision and support from a qualified speech and language therapist and regular opportunities to meet with colleagues from the SLT team within the wider forensic service.
About Us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough, we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with a supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
4. We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement, and technology.
Why NLFT?
We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities. We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
NHS Discounts, generous annual leave, and NHS pension scheme.
Excellent internal staff network.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust, you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that falls under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey, or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Job Responsibilities
Please kindly refer to the job description and person specification by clicking on the JD/PS attachment in the advert.
We welcome applications from newly qualified SLTs (B5s) or experienced SLTs (B6) who wish to establish a specialism in learning disability and forensic mental health. As a B5 SLT, you will be supported in your development by the highly specialist SLT and Clinical Lead SLT and eligible to move to B6 pay scale following completion of preceptorship competencies within an agreed timescale.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Recognised degree or equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy.
* Health and Care Professions Council registration.
* Registered member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.
* Other postgraduate education in areas relevant to the post including learning disabilities, autistic spectrum, mental health.
Experience and Knowledge
* Evidence of work-based learning to demonstrate clinical skills within a range of clinical settings.
* Able to carry out assessment, formulate a diagnosis, and management plan appropriate to the service user group.
* Evidence of training or work-based learning relevant to the role.
* Experience of working in a forensic, learning disability or mental health setting.
* Experience of working with dysphagia.
Skills and Abilities
* Skills in the assessment, intervention, and management of communication difficulties relevant to an adult setting.
* Ability to demonstrate clear clinical reasoning based on evidenced-based practice.
Personal Qualities
* Ability to be flexible and be responsive to change.
* Ability to be engaging and approachable and able to work quickly and responsively with both service users and the multidisciplinary team.
Other Requirements
* Understanding of clinical risk management and the ability to manage this.
* Ability to identify and employ mechanisms of clinical governance as appropriate, to support and maintain clinical practice in the face of regular exposure to highly emotive material and challenging behaviour.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Depending on experience per annum inclusive of Outer London HCAS.
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