Main area: Speech and Language Therapy - Mental Health Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 338-6463189-24-C
Site: The Humber Centre
Town: Hull
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 22/01/2025 23:59
Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust are proud award winners of the HSJ Provider of the Year 2019.
Job overview
This is a not to be missed opportunity to support recovery and rehabilitation of patients by working within Forensic Allied Health Professionals Therapy team across the forensic inpatient service as an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist.
You will be part of a fascinating and challenging area of patient care. The post is based within the medium and low secure forensic environment and offers opportunity to work within the therapies service. The post holder will be responsible for leading, shaping, and developing SLT within the forensic service by demonstrating clinical excellence, promoting a culture of evidence-based practice and person-centred care. The role will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams and deliver SLT assessment, treatment, and intervention through direct, indirect, and consultative models.
The post holder will have a degree in Speech and Language Therapy and significant postgraduate experience working with people with learning disability, mental illness, personality disorder, and/or neurodiversity, as well as an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the communication and swallowing needs of this patient population.
The post holder will have awareness of related issues and national directives and a working understanding of forensic care and the wider criminal justice system. Applicants should have a strong value base and be able to demonstrate respect and advocacy for those within their care.
Main duties of the job
1. Providing specialist speech, language, communication, swallowing, and/or dysphagia assessments and evidence-based, clinically proven interventions to forensic service users with complex mental health problems.
2. Clinical and operational leadership of the speech and language therapy team, including providing clinical and/or professional supervision and leadership to junior staff members, students, and other professionals.
3. Have professional oversight and delegate clinical work to associate practitioners and assistants.
4. Be a core member of the Forensic Therapy Service, within the Forensic Directorate’s inpatient division, which provides a coordinated and multi-professional programme of interventions and rehabilitation to meet the individual needs of service users.
5. Ensure carers and family are involved in care planning where appropriate, as key communication partners in social inclusion and fostering relationships and a sense of community for forensic service users.
6. Work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team ensuring that high quality, individualised care is delivered which ensures safety, promotes recovery, and maximises independence.
7. Provide service-user specific and holistic generalised speech and language therapy advice, training, and consultation to professionals within the forensic division.
Working for our organisation
We are an award-winning and CQC rated good health and social care Trust delivering integrated services across Hull, East and North Yorkshire. Find out more on our website.
We are a forward-thinking and dynamic Trust with a real commitment to staff development. We value our colleagues and invest in them to ensure they have the right skills to deliver outstanding care.
We are proud to score above or equal to the average for all NHS People Promise theme areas demonstrating our commitment to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone. Wherever you work, we know you will receive a warm welcome and all the support you’ll need to get you started.
We recognise the positive value of diversity and promote equality whilst challenging discrimination. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
Work-life balance is about having influence and flexibility over when, where, and how you work. If the work pattern for this role does not meet your needs, we welcome an application and are happy to discuss working arrangements that differ from those advertised.
We offer a unique range of benefits that go above and beyond other NHS Trusts including an enhanced leave package and health and wellbeing support.
From city to countryside, market towns to moors, you’ll find a place to call home including some of the most affordable places to live in the UK.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information with regard to this vacancy please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualification(s), further theoretical training and experience to master's level equivalent.
* Relevant post-basic clinical qualification(s) with a professional portfolio supporting this e.g., dysphagia.
* Full understanding of relevant policy legislation and guidance relevant to working with Adult Mental Health, Learning Disability, and Personality Disorder e.g., Mental Health Act, transforming care, etc.
* Knowledge and experience of service improvement and clinical audit.
* Understanding of relevant policy, legislation, and guidance relevant to working within the service area.
* Registered with the appropriate clinical professional body: Speech and Language Therapy.
* Post-graduate Neurodevelopment diagnostic training e.g., ADI-R, ADOS, DISCO.
* Post-graduate training in Ayre's Sensory Integration or equivalent area relevant for service users e.g., Sensory Attachment Intervention.
* Post-graduate training in areas relevant to working in mental health.
Experience
* Demonstrable experience working with patients within the relevant service area.
Skills
* Effective interpersonal skills and experience in supervising, mentoring, and teaching.
* Able to communicate effectively and sensitively with patients and carers.
Please note that if there is a high volume of applications we reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date.
This post will be subject to successful completion of a 6-month probationary period where applicable, further details would be included within any offer letter.
Where operationally feasible, the Trust supports agile working; there is an expectation of attendance of 1 day per week at a Trust site as a minimum operationally. Unless specifically stated in the advert that a role will have home as the base of work, all roles will have the option to work from a Trust base if remote working is not for you.
If required for the post, the ability to commute within the Trust's geographical area with access to the appropriate means of transport would be essential.
We will apply for a Disclosure from the Disclosure & Barring Service for the successful candidate if this is required for the post. Anyone applying for a position which involves a regulated activity will require an enhanced Disclosure & Barring check and that the disclosure will, where appropriate to the role, include information against the Independent Safeguarding Authority barred lists for working with children or working with adults or both.
IMPORTANT: Should your application be successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted to attend an interview electronically to the email address provided at the time of the application. It is important therefore, that you CHECK YOUR EMAILS/NHS JOBS ACCOUNT on a regular basis.
If you are not contacted by the Trust within six weeks of the closing date of the vacancy, your application will have been unsuccessful on this occasion. We would however like to thank you for the interest you have shown in the Humber Teaching NHS Foundation Trust.
If you require sponsorship to work in the UK, check you are eligible under the UKVI points-based system online. Not all jobs we advertise are eligible for sponsorship.
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.
Name: Andrea Arundel
Job title: Advanced Speech and Language Therapist
Email address: andrea.arundel1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01482 478717
Additional information: You may also choose to contact Andrea Arundel, Principal Occupational Therapist, and Helen Courtney Clinical Lead for Forensic Division, with regards to this post.
Telephone: 01482 336200
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