You will join an expanding service and be a part of a supportive and caring team consisting of the following Clinical Lead, Team Coordinator, Office Manager, Admin, Psychologists and Assistant Psychologists, Highly Specialist Autism Assessors, Specialist Autism Assessors, Autism Assessors, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Assistant Practitioners.

This role will sit predominantly within our post-diagnostic pathway supporting adults who have recently been diagnosed in understanding and adapting to a new diagnosis. As well as 1:1 intervention you will be an integral part of a multi-disciplinary team, supporting in the running of groups sessions, providing supervision and support to other members of the team and and contributing to, and leading team projects. With support from members of the leadership team, you will support in leading the direction and the development of the team.

The Autism Diagnostic Teams core hours are Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm and our office is based at Unit 8, The Point, Lion's Way, Sleaford. The post covers the whole county and therefore ability to travel independently is essential.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist assessment to adults with speech, language and communication needs/Autism.
• To assess, develop and implement Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment and intervention ensuring that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans.
• 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 a high standard of clinical care ensuring safe and effective assessment, treatment and comprehensive discharge planning using highly developed clinical reasoning skills and appropriate assessment tools.
• To provide highly specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users/service users with communication and interaction difficulties.
• To deal with complex issues in planning and prioritising workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and discharge of service users with communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
• To manage a complex and highly specialist caseload independently.
• Provide specialist, expert, clinical knowledge to clinical colleagues and other healthcare professionals including medical staff programmes and to refer on to other services/professionals as appropriate.

About us

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,900 staff, and serving a population of over 768,400, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.

You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!

We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.

Whether you're taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire has arange of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that's friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life .Visitbeinlincolnshire.com to find out more .

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for complete details regarding this post.

When completing your application, please demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:

Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy

Competitive annual leave allowance

Car leasing scheme

Childcare Vouchers

NHS pension scheme

Free eye tests

Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme

Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants

Get in touch today:

Our friendly team is here to answer any questions you may have about our roles. For more information, please contact Rosie Clifton, via email at r.clifton@nhs.net or by telephone on 01476 858257.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience of working with adults with autism
• Significant experience of working with adults with autism
• Experience of leading on service-related projects including Audits
• Experience of supervising junior staff and/or students
• Knowledge and application of a range of assessments and therapeutic approaches for assessing speech, language and communication needs in adults
• Ability to relate clinical theory to clinical practice

Desirable

• Experience of working with adults with learning disability and/ or Mental Health issues
• Evidence of clinical supervision of others
• Experience of assessing people for ASD diagnostic purposes
• Attends Clinical Excellence Networks relevant to current role
• Attended training on communication strategies
• Experience of electronic communication aids

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
• Current registered membership of HCPC and RCSLT
• Evidence of highly developed specialised continued professional development in speech and language therapy (equivalent to postgraduate level or equivalent)
• HCPC registration

Desirable

• Management training
• Leadership Training
• Post basic Dysphagia training
• Further theoretical training and experience in autism
• Further qualification on Sensory Integration

Skills

Essential

• Highly developed clinical reasoning skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Highly motivated & able to engage with service users & carers to improve outcomes
• Proven ability to work independently and as part of team
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Excellent analytical and reflection skills
• To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional and Clinical and National and Local Clinical Guidelines
• Experience in delivering training
• Proven ability to work as part of a team
• Knowledge of autism and Learning Disabilities national agendas including NICE guidance, Autism Act and the Transforming care agenda
• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act, Best interest process and Deprivation of Liberty Guidance and Mental Health Act

Desirable

• Co- production
• Knowledge of 5 good communication standards

Employer details

Employer name

Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unit 8, The Point

Lions Way

Sleaford

NG34 8GG

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