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We provide NHS care and treatment for people living in south east England. Our mental health services provide care and treatment for people with conditions such as psychosis, depression, anxiety, dementia and personality disorder. Our vision is to provide outstanding care and treatment you can be confident in.
Key details
Location: East Brighton, Brighton, BN2 3EW
Contract type & working pattern: Bank: 4 months (Up until 31st March 2025), 37.5 hours per week (would consider part-time)
Salary: £24.82 per hour (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Job Overview
The Transforming Care Autism Team are a specialist assessment and consultation multidisciplinary team who work alongside SPFT colleagues to support discharges and avoid admissions for autistic young people and adults. We are looking for B6 or B7 Speech and Language Therapist who are interested in working with autistic young people and/or adults who are inpatient or at risk of admission using neuroaffirmative approaches.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
To provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to autistic people who are on the Transforming Care Risk Register as part of TCAT to support discharge or avoid admission.
To provide specialist assessment and contribute to differential diagnosis in the NDS as required by the Principal SLT NDS.
To provide highly specialist supervision to other Speech and Language Therapists or Speech and Language Therapy Assistants within Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, as necessary.
Work in collaboration with multidisciplinary colleagues and other agencies.
Liaise and consult with other Speech and Language Therapists and/or other professions within mainstream primary and secondary provider services.
To work within the MDT to undertake risk assessment, formulation, and management for individual clients with complex presentations and to provide advice to other professions on aspects of risk assessment, formulation, and management in relation to communication needs.
To prioritise, organise and manage a complex caseload as part of the MDT.
To provide highly specialist evidence-based interventions and to evaluate effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of those referred to using investigative and analytical skills and to formulate individualized interventions based on advanced clinical reasoning and partnership working.
To inform and counsel service users, relatives and carers and significant others to present complex information clearly and comprehensively to optimise communication.
To encourage and enable service users and carers involvement and choice in all intervention options and decisions regarding their care plans/goals wherever possible.
To negotiate with clients, relatives and carers and relevant others around care plans and complex case management to motivate and engage them in the therapeutic process.
To provide specialist Speech & Language Therapy services for those referred based on national best practice.
To be responsible for clinical administration and record keeping related to the specialist caseload according to Trust policy.
To adhere to Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy clinical guidelines, Health Professions Council standards of proficiency, conduct, performance and ethics, and policies and guidelines relating to specialism.
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.
Qualifications
Essential criteria:
* HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist
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