Speech and Language Therapist - Forensic and Community Teams

Job summary

The Learning Disability Community Team is long established and works to improve the lives of adults with a learning disability in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

The Learning Disability Forensic Team is recently established and works to holistically improve the lives of learning disabled people who have had involvement with the police or been placed in hospitals outside of our area.

We have a full-time vacancy for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable speech and language therapist. Half your time you will spend working with our community patients, managing communication and dysphagia cases. The remaining time will be spend working in our Learning Disability Forensic service supporting LD adults in placements across the country, working to return individuals home.

This is an exciting and unique opportunity to develop a clinical specialism as well as maintaining your generalist LD skills.

Additionally you will work with learning disabled individuals with a forensic context and will be act as both a forensic practitioner and a speech and language therapist.

Working across two teams you will find a supportive and wide-ranging multidisciplinary team including psychology, nursing, occupational therapy and physiotherapy as well as access to dieticians and psychiatry.

You will have regular management and clinical supervision, reflective practice sessions and CPD opportunities.

There are opportunities for blended and flexible working, career development and MDT working.

Main duties of the job

• The post allows for working across two different specialties (learning disabilities and forensics) with development opportunities within both roles allowing for development of a variety of skills.

• Would require ongoing development of the SALT role within the forensic community learning disability team, within a team that is evolving and consistently adapting.
• The post-holder would work within a multi-disciplinary team with SALT, psychology, nursing and psychiatry within the forensic team and the opportunity for close MDT working within the team.
• Regular supervision from within both the forensic community team and SALT community learning disability teams to ensure support needs are met.
• The post-holder will have the opportunity to work with individuals from marginalised populations to support them to live their best lives.
• Holistic working is encouraged and person-centred care is a vital component at the centre of the care provided.
• The role will provide the opportunity to work with complex individuals with a variety of needs.

About us

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Here at LPT, our values are Compassion, Respect, Integrity and Trust, which we keep at the heart of everything we do.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information are contained in the attached document titled Information for Applicants.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.

Applicants at risk within the local NHS who meet essential criteria will have preference for interview.

Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

Leicestershire Partnership Nhs Trust

Bridge Park Road

Thurmaston

Leicester

LE4 8PQ

Employer's website

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

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