Are you an established band 6 therapist or a band 5 therapist looking for their next step in a development role and opportunity to develop your skills working with a small caseload of children and adults with a learning disability?
A rare and exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist to join our Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS). We are a nationally recognised service, providing people with a Learning Disability that cannot be supported in mainstream services, the required support in the community with the aim of keeping people at home and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.
The post holder will be an invaluable member of the Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS) working with service users throughout Gloucestershire and working into our small inpatient service in Stroud. The purpose of this role is to:
1. Provide a specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities referred to LDISS.
2. Provide specialist speech & language therapy in our small learning disability inpatient service based at Berkeley House in Stroud, supporting both those residing in Berkeley House and offering outreach support into the community.
3. Provide specialist communication assessment and implementation of evidence-based interventions to individuals who are referred to LDISS or Berkeley House.
4. Optimise the service users’ ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment.
5. Facilitate appropriate discharge from hospital and respond to agencies requiring assessment of service users who are being considered for hospital admission.
6. Be a mentor for SaLT students under the remit of the profession.
7. Identify, assess eligibility for, provide and support in the implementation of alternative/augmentative communication aids, including visual resources and high/low tech devices.
8. Provide training for all staff/care providers and other outside agencies – including specific learning disability/Autism training.
9. With additional training, provide supervision of junior staff.
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity, and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
To assess, develop, and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment and intervention; ensuring that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible.
To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness, using evidence-based practice, adapting practice to meet individual service users’ circumstances; including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences, and by evaluating outcomes.
To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users with communication difficulties.
To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users with communication difficulties.
Contribute to observations and advise/offer a clinical impression/professional opinion on how communication difficulties may inform/explain/feed into behaviour that challenges.
Assessing improvement in quality of life following SaLT input through the use of appropriate and informative outcome measures.
Develop and maintain clinical pathways for patients throughout a referral to LDISS in conjunction with CLDT colleagues and wider Trust resources.
Implement and monitor a Positive Behaviour Support ethos across LDISS and role model best practice and disseminate knowledge to the wider team/care providers.
Design and complete audits and monitor compliance alongside agreed governance structures.
Provide and receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers, or other professionals and agencies, on a daily basis.
Collate, analyse, and present service user data to the weekly Multidisciplinary team meetings.
In partnership with the team manager, organise and chair Multidisciplinary team meetings and service user orientated meetings.
Attend Trust internal meetings and have full participation in organising and presenting at Continuing Professional Development days.
Maintain accurate written records and statistics to ensure that service user details and details of care given are recorded in notes and on the trust database(s) in line with trust policy.
Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions. To participate in Multi-Agency meetings to offer advice and opinions to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users.
Develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers, and other professionals which reflect individual needs.
The post holder will assume a responsibility of a shared caseload. There is a requirement to use your own vehicle to travel throughout Gloucestershire to carry out appointments.
Implement risk assessments and management plans on a daily basis.
To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries through interpretation of clinical/professional policies.
To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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