An exciting new challenge has arisen for highly skilled speech and language therapist (SALT) to join Oxleas NHS trust in our South West prisons. This is a brand-new service and we are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to lead on setting up a clinical model and pathway within our Bristol, South Gloucestershire & Wiltshire (BSGW), Devon, and Dorset clusters. You will join our highly specialist multidisciplinary teams across 10 prisons and have line management responsibilities for 3 band 7 Speech and Language Therapists. These individuals will support your vision and integration into our established healthcare services. Each band 7 will be allocated a region for clinical need. Your team will complement our multidisciplinary team and bridge the gap between existing learning disability (LD) provision and offender healthcare services providing leadership in assessments, consultation and co-working with complex clients with LD and autism who present a risk of harm to others. The service will also support service users with a complex mix of neurodevelopmental, speech, language, and communication, dysphagia, mental health, and intellectual disability needs who are high-risk, high-harm, high-vulnerability individuals. This role can be based at any of our 10 sites within the South West (Bristol, Devon, Dorset & Wiltshire) and travel across all sites is required. Main duties of the job As the Operational Lead SALT you will provide professional leadership, supervision and a mentoring role for Speech & Language Therapists (SLTs) within Southwest prisons (team of 3 Band 7s). You will be responsible for the development of SLT services within the multidisciplinary team and to act as a key contributor in the development of the Specialist services within the Southwest prisons. You will be an expert on issues pertaining to SLT and neurology and provide advice and training to all stake holders, be a key contributor to clinical audit and research and provide specialist input/advice into the strategic development of the service. You will be responsible for the clinical activity of the SLTs working in the team under the supervision structure and assess, develop and implement highly specialist SLT treatment to ensure high standards of SLT within the services. Your case load will primarily consist of adults with a neurological disorder and resultant physical and psychosocial problems: cognitive impairment, swallowing and language difficulties. However, there is a need for SALT treatments to the wider offender population so you and your team will deal with a vast, diverse caseload of patients. About us Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, childrens centres, schools and peoples homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Marys Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values: • Were Kind • Were Fair • We Listen • We Care Job responsibilities Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. Our healthcare departments operate across ten prisons in the South West, split in to three clusters. Each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs: BSGW: • HMP Ashfield Cat C Population 412 • HMP Bristol Cat B Population 638 • HMP Erlestoke Cat C Population 494 • HMP Leyhill Cat D (Open) Population 460 Devon: • HMP Channings Wood Cat C Population 731 • HMP Dartmoor Cat C Population 659 • HMP Exeter Cat B (Remand) Population 412 Dorset: • HMP Guys Marsh Cat C Population 550 • HMP Portland Cat C Population 530 • HMP The Verne Cat C Population 600 Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.A full job description and person specification is downloadable from the support documents section of this advert. Please read the full document prior to applying. IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ: All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team. You will need to provide: • Proof of right to work documentation • Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographicID • Proof of address documentation • Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code. Address History: • 5 years address history will be needed. • Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously. • Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited. Person Specification Education & Qualifications Essential • Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent • Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to neurology, up to Masters degree equivalent • Evidence of post qualification dysphagia training • Evidence of leadership and management skills obtained through experience Desirable • Successful completion of leadership training • MSc qualification in specialist area, or working towards one • Member of relevant Special Interest Group Experience Essential • Significant post graduate experience which demonstrates the competencies to meet the role requirements outlined in the JD • Appropriate level of experience working with client group • Highly skilled in dysphagia management Desirable • Experience of working in secure settings • Experience of appraising staff • Experience of multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessment Registration Essential • HCPC Registered • Member of Royal College of SALT