Job summary
To work within the Essex Learning Disability Partnership in North Essex offering SLT assessment and intervention for service users with a learning disability, mental health issues and complex needs.
The post holder will be line managed within the Essex Learning Disability Partnership Team and will be professionally accountable to the Advanced Practitioner SLT in Learning Disabilities.
All staff should comply with the Trust's Anti-Discriminatory Statement, Employee Charter, Trust Policies and Procedures, Code of Conduct and Equality and Diversity
- Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an exceptional organisation with big ambitions, our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country
- With a workforce of around 3,500 people and an annual income of some £330million this year, the Trust provides integrated health and social care services through a network of community and inpatient settings, serving diverse communities across Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hertfordshire and Norfolk. As a university NHS foundation trust, HPFT continues to develop strong links with the University of Hertfordshire, providing excellent learning and development opportunities, as well as strengthening our clinical research capability.
- Whilst it is a challenging period for the NHS, there has never been a more exciting time to join HPFT following our CQC rating of Outstanding awarded to us in April 2019.
Main duties of the job
Duties and Responsibilities (at Band 5)
- To manage a defined caseload, using evidence-based person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions
- To provide this service to service users, who present with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties
- To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team
Duties and Responsibilities (at Band 6)
- To manage a diverse caseload, using evidence-based, person-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions
- To provide this service to service users with communication and/or dysphagia difficulties
- To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from theCare Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.
Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.
The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Our Trust values are:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!
Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?
Then please read on...
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibility (Band 5)
- To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users within the ELDP, including those with profound learning disabilities, additional sensory and/or physical disability, mental health diagnosis and/or challenging
- To be responsible for managing a defined caseload
- To select and apply SLT assessments for a designated caseload, addressing communication needs.
- To assess, diagnose and develop treatment plans for service users presenting with communication difficulties and/or dysphagia.
- To work with service users and carers to identify SLT requirements as part of the overall care plan
- To plan and implement individual interventions, in collaboration with the service user and carer
- To monitor, evaluate and modify interventions with service users to ensure effectiveness of intervention and positive outcomes
- To be responsible for reviewing and discharging service users, writing assessment reports for a variety of audiences.
- To instruct and advise Assistant Therapy Practitioners (ATP) in the appropriate provision of interventions
- To have knowledge and understanding of the application of alternative and augmentative communication
- To be an autonomous practitioner
- To have the skills needed to facilitate group work
- To undertake risk assessments and manage clinical and organisational risk
- To work towards the completion of the Newly Qualified Practitioner Competencies as set out by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RSCLT), if not already completed.
Clinical Responsibility (Band 6) in addition to the Band 5 responsibilities above
- Following completion of NQP framework and post-basic dysphagia training, autonomously manage a more complex caseload including service users with dysphagia.
- To work with and be available to other SLTs and ATPs for support and joint consultation as required
- To contribute towards development of communication and dysphagia pathways within the service.
Person Specification
Qualifications/Education/Training
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy
- State registration with HCPC
- Member of the RCSLT
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) - professional portfolio
- Willingness to undertake post graduate dysphagia training
Previous Experience
Essential
- Specialist knowledge and application of speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
- Detailed knowledge of evidence based practice and its contribution to practice governance
- Planning and coordination of treatment packages
- Experience of managing a caseload
Desirable
- Previous experience working in the field of Learning Disabilities or other relevant transferrable setting (eg older adults, long term neuro)
Communication Skills
Essential
- Clear and effective communication through written, verbal and non-verbal modes
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in SLT, Learning Disabilities and mental health
- Group work skills
- Understanding of team dynamics
Physical Skills
Essential
- Computer literacy
- Basic word processing skills
- Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website .
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Spinks Lane Therapy Centre, Spinks Lane, Whitham, CM8 1EP
Spinks Lane
Witham
CM8 1EP