Speech and Language Therapist Band 5/6 run through

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a newly qualified speech and language therapist to join a well established multidisciplinary learning disabilities team in the London Borough of Camden.

This post is a band 5/6 run through which will enable the post holder to develop into a Band 6 within 12-18 when competencies have been evidenced and maintained.

The post holder will work as part of a MDT supporting young/adults people who have learning disabilities in a specialist college setting. They will also carry out some assessments and interventions in a community.

The post holder will be expected to have a range of knowledge and some experience administering both formal and informal communication assessments and interventions relating to this client group.

The post holder will has have knowledge and some experience of dysphagia assessments and management plans.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver Speech and Language Therapy care in the local further education college young people who have complex needs. They will work in a well resourced and supportive MDT.The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for organising and managing a defined complex caseload of young people presenting with learning disabilities. This will include communication assessment, intervention and training.The post holder will also develop their skills in working with people with dysphagia, both assessment and intervention. Support, guidance and training will be provided as required.The post holder will have good communication skills and the ability to empathise in order to support and counsel clients and carers to accept living with long-term conditions. They will be able to communicate information effectively taking into account the barriers to communication presented by the diverse caseload.They will be developing skills in working in and liaising within a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment. They will be developing negotiation skills in working with other team members, carers or other professionals. They will take on the care coordination role for some of the clients.They will design and supervise intervention packages of care to be carried out/used by clients, carers, teaching staff, families and support workers.

About us

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

5 Pancras Square

London

N1C 4AG

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Whittington Hospital NHS Trust

Address

5 Pancras Square

London

N1C 4AG

Employer's website

https://www.whittington.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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