Would you like to be part of shaping high quality community services for adults with Learning Disabilities ?

The post holder will be working within our Learning Disability specialist community teams across the Black Country area including the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Wolverhampton and Walsall.

Main duties of the job

This post involves providing specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention to adults with learning disabilities presenting with a broad range of communication difficulties and/or swallowing difficulties and delivering and developing training for Trust staff, care providers and families.

We are a forward-thinking, friendly and supportive specialist Speech and Language Therapy service. We have 18 Speech and Language Therapy staff working across the service within the community, enhanced inpatient settings and pathway teams reducing hospital admissions across the Black Country.

Continuing professional development is actively supported via appraisals, opportunities to attend webinars/courses, regular clinical supervision opportunities and through networking and skill sharing with SLT colleagues from across the service.

About us

What to expect from us:

Support to work towards Newly Qualified competencies

Regular specialist supervision

Informal shadowing and support

External training and CPD opportunities

Access to iPad with paid apps,

Internal accredited training in Makaton and Talking Mats

Internal and external networking in specialist areas

Friendly and down-to-earth 'bostin' staff teams

Comprehensive wellbeing offer

Job description
Job responsibilities

Assess, diagnose, and manage the communication and/or swallowing needs of patients referred to the service in community settings. Responsible for initial patient diagnosis and assessment under the supervision of a senior SLT clinician:

• Collection of detailed case history information
• Informal assessment and observation
• Undertakes clinical work with individuals and groups of clients
• Uses formal standardised assessment and informal assessment procedures
• Reads and abides by risk assessments relating to patients of the service.
• Communicates assessment and therapeutic findings within the multi-disciplinary team.
• Completes contemporaneous case notes and written clinical information completion according to Trust procedures.
• Undertakes specialist clinical work with individuals and groups of clients with guidance from senior SLT.
• Develops coordinated multidisciplinary programmes of care / care packages.
• Makes decisions leading to SLT review or discharge of clients and/or referral to other services, as appropriate.
• Is responsible for managing own clinical caseload and cases under guidance of a more senior clinician.
• Provides both direct and indirect intervention, consultation, advice and support; working within a multi-disciplinary model in order to ensure that the inter-agency needs of clients are met.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• SLT degree
• HCPC registration or pending
• Relevant placement/undergrad experience

Desirable

• Specific LD experience or training

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285-4621-LD