Speech & Language Therapist

Overview

Are you a Newly Qualified Speech and Language Therapist or someone who is enthusiastic about working with adults with mental health disorders, autistic people and/or learning disabilities in Maidstone and Dartford (Kent)?

You will be working alongside a Band 7 SLT and a full multidisciplinary team consisting of nurses, health care assistants, psychologists, occupational therapists, health care support workers and social workers. This is an exciting opportunity to have a core role in embedding Speech and Language Therapy across Forensic Mental Health services. The post holder will be part of the Forensic & Specialist Inpatient Secure Service AHP team, providing Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) across Medium and Low Secure settings within multi-disciplinary teams.

The use of direct and indirect interventions provides our service users with appropriate opportunities for communication and enhances autonomy and choice, enabling them to be at the centre of their own care pathway. An important part of this role will be embedding an inclusive communication approach in all forensic mental health settings to provide optimal communication environments for service users.

A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people.

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We are the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway. Our teams support adults with a wide range of mental health needs. Because we cover the whole county and both hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the 1.8 million people of Kent and Medway.

Rated 'Good' by the CQC, we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 in the community each year.

Our vision is simple:
We are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. And everything we do is guided by our values caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us - if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's doing well together.

• This is an exciting opportunity to have a core role in embedding Speech and Language Therapy across Forensic Mental Health services.
• The post holder will be part of the Forensic & Specialist Inpatient Secure Service AHP team, providing Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) across Medium and Low Secure settings within multi-disciplinary teams.
• This role involves assessing and providing support for communication disorders/differences and eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties for those with mental health disorders, neurodevelopmental conditions and/or Learning Disabilities.
• The use of direct and indirect interventions provides our service users with appropriate opportunities for communication and enhances autonomy and choice, enabling them to be at the centre of their own care pathway.
• An important part of this role will be embedding an inclusive communication approach in all forensic mental health settings to provide optimal communication environments for service users.

• Newly Qualified Speech and Language Therapist or someone who is enthusiastic about working with adults with mental health disorders, autistic people and/or learning disabilities.