Job summary
This is a very rare and exciting opportunity to work for six months with Specialist Speech and Language Therapists (SaLT) across the Trust's Mental Health Inpatient Wards. SaLTs assess, diagnose and treat patients with speech, language and communication needs and swallowing impairments. You will work under the direction of the SaLTs to support identification of patients needing assessment and to help deliver the support and treatment they need. You will be expected to attend ward rounds to represent the SaLT service. You will need to develop a good working relationship with patients and ward staff including nurses, psychiatrists and other therapists. Previous experience working with people with mental illness or learning disabilities would be preferable.
Main duties of the job
- To contribute to the delivery of high-quality assessment, diagnosis and intervention to patients and their carers including both communication and dysphagia/swallowing support and health improvement.
- To analyse the need for, develop and produce easy read/accessible information/visual supports appropriate to the individual service user's health and communication needs to improve their health and well-being.
- To represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service as required.
- To be involved in specialist multi-disciplinary assessment (including gathering and analysing case history information) and care packages.
- To identify, develop and deliver training packages appropriate to the audience need.
- To identify, develop and implement therapy resources and low-tech communication aids following clinical assessment, which involves making judgements about what is required, appropriate and achievable.
- To plan, organise and manage own workload to complete tasks in a timely manner.
- To use good word processing skills to create accessible information resources.
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, children's centres, schools and people's 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 Mary's 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:
- We're Kind
- We're Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To contribute to the specialist assessment and diagnosis of the communication and/or eating and drinking skills of patients receiving care in Acute and Crisis services
- To contribute to planning, implementing and monitoring and analysing outcomes of specialist intervention programmes aimed at maximising the service users functional communication skills (including health literacy), developing their communication environment and/or managing their eating and drinking difficulties/risk, through direct therapy, advice and training/education.
- To contribute to specialist multi- disciplinary assessment and care packages.
- To participate in CPA/MDT meetings and carry out identified actions which may include liaising with other professionals and carers.
- To plan organise/co-ordinate and/or attend multi-disciplinary clinics as required.
- To identify, develop and implement visual therapy resources and low-tech communication aids following clinical assessment, which involves making judgements about what is required, appropriate and achievable.
- To contribute to Augmentative and Alternative Communication assessments and support programming and implementation of low- and high-tech communication aids.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE English and Maths
Desirable
- Degree Level qualification in relevant subject
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working with people with communication difficulties
- Previous role in Mental Health, Learning Disability or SEND settings
- Awareness of the role of Speech and Language Therapy
Desirable
- Previous experience developing Easy Read information
- Previously worked at a Speech and Language Therapy Assistant
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non verbal communication skills and ability to adapt these to suit the needs of the communication partner
- Ability to manage own workload efficiently
Desirable
- Dysphagia awareness
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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Employer details
Employer name
Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Queen Mary's Hospital
Frognal Avenue
Sidcup
DA14 6LT
United Kingdom
Employer's website
http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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