Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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.

There is a requirement that you will:

• 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.

Person-centred coordinated care is a fundamental value throughout services delivered by Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust and we are keen for you to help us continue to deliver this.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within peoples homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trusts priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming…