Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

The Forensic Outreach Liaison Service is dedicated to supporting individuals with complex needs who have engaged in offending behaviour, helping them build hopeful, meaningful lives through recovery-focused mental health interventions. If you are passionate about making a real difference, you'll find a rewarding opportunity here to foster resilience, promote recovery, and support lasting positive change.

As part of our expanding multi-disciplinary therapies team, you will work collaboratively to deliver evidence-based therapies that enable individuals to overcome challenges, manage their mental health, and reintegrate successfully into the community. Your expertise will help empower recovery, reduce reoffending, and enhance wellbeing.

If you believe in recovery as a powerful journey toward transformation and want to be part of a dedicated team that supports positive futures, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To provide compassionate and effective leadership to junior staff including support staffand therapy assistants

To strengthen and actively contributeto the overall leadership of the service.

To communicate effectively with a range of clinicians, managers, directors, associate directors, people who access services, carers/supporter/family members, stakeholders and agencies

To assess and contribute to the formulation and diagnosis of individuals referred to the Forensic Outreach and Liaison service.

To provide high quality and evidence-based Speech and Language therapy assessment, interventions and consultation to people with complex needs who access services and their carers, supporters, family members in line with speech and language therapy and service pathways.

To provide supervision and mentoring to other speech and language therapists within the speech and language therapy service.

To deliver speech and language therapy student placements.

To actively contribute to the continuing professional development (CPD) opportunities within the wider speech and language therapy service.

To support team managers and clinical leads in the development and delivering of effective services.

To provide audit of Speech and Language Therapy services in directorate.

To link in with local, regional, and national Speech and Language Therapy networks.

About us

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is the leading provider of mental health, learning disability, neurodevelopmental and drug and alcohol services in Surrey and North East Hampshire. We support people of all ages and are passionate about providing high quality care that is delivered at the right time as close to home as possible to help people recover and stay well.

We are one of the top 10 mental Health, Learning Disability and Community Trust to work for nationwide. Our Trust is an inclusive and supportive employer that offers a wide range of staff networks, flexible working, free parking and excellent health and wellbeing support. We also provide a wide range of opportunities to help staff develop and progress.

Surrey is a beautiful county lying just 30 minutes away from Central London and from the South Coast. Our historic market towns and bustling districts are enveloped in wonderful countryside, and our excellent road and rail networks bring the rest of the country within easy reach. For international travel, both Gatwick and Heathrow airports are nearby.

Please note that we reserve the right to close posts as soon as sufficient applications are received.

Regrettably, due to UK Home Office requirements we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles.

Applicants must have the right to work in the UK for the duration of the role.

We look forward to receiving your application!

Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unither House

Curfew Bell Rd

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Unither House

Curfew Bell Rd

Chertsey

KT16 9FG

Employer's website

https://www.sabp.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)

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