Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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Are you a highly experienced Speech and Language Therapist passionate about supporting people with learning disabilities? This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic speech and language therapist to join our Learning Disability Speech and Language Therapy Team in Gloucestershire.

This is an ideal post for an experienced Band 7 or Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist looking for their next step and opportunity to develop skills.

The CLDT provides high-quality, person-centred care to individuals with learning disabilities and their families. You will help the team provide:

• Specialist communication assessment and interventions
• Specialised eating and drinking assessments and interventions
• Education, training, support and advice to colleagues and carers to enable them to provide the best possible care
• Clinical supervision for less experienced Speech and Language Therapists and Speech and Language Therapy Students

LDISS are a nationally recognised service, providing people with a Learning Disability that cannot be supported in mainstream services, support in the community, with the aim of keeping people in their homes and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.

In addition to supporting people to live their best lives in the community, LDISS provide assessment, therapy and training in Berkeley House, a seven-bedded assessment and treatment service for people with learning disabilities.

The post is fulltime and will be split across our Community Learning Disability Team in Gloucester and our Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS). You will be part of a small friendly multidisciplinary team comprising of Speech and Language Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Psychologists, Psychiatrists.

• Providing a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities.
• Providing highly specialist communication assessment and implementation of evidence-based interventions to individuals who are referred to LDISS or Berkeley House.
• Providing specialist eating and drinking assessments and interventions to adults with learning disabilities referred to either service.
• Be a supervisor and mentor for Band 5/6 SLTs and students under the remit of the profession.
• Carry out delegated tasks outlined within policy development.

We provide excellent appraisal, mentoring and clinical supervision, and you will benefit from working closely with highly experienced and approachable speech and language therapists.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Contract
• Job function: Health Care Provider
• Industries: Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapists

Please refer to the Additional Information attachment before submitting your application. An informal discussion or visit prior to application or interview would be welcomed and highly recommended.

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