Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

This is an exciting new post providing a unique opportunity to support the development of the Speech and Language Therapy provision in a young offenders prison within the South London forensic services. We are looking for a speech and language therapist to join our rich MDT and contribute to the SLT pathway within our mental health care provision in a challenging but rewarding environment.

Clinical:

• To work as a member of the Integrated Mental Health Team at HMP/YOI Isis.
• To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and case closure of service users.
• To be professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously in a variety of settings.
• To act as lead professional for those on the allocated caseload.
• To undertake speech and language assessments of service users based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of information from a variety of sources including formal and informal assessment, observation and interviews with service users, and others involved in the service user's care.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives.

Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.

We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

• To provide timely and accurate reports that provide a diagnosis, assessment and recommendations and comply with best practice guidelines.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the communication assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.
• To work with service users and other members of the MDT to achieve identified goals and to promote social inclusion, independence and well-being. 10. To develop accessible information in order to support service users where required.
• To formulate and implement treatment programmes for the management of service users communication needs and provide advice to service users with communication difficulties.
• To develop and implement individual and /or group interventions, in collaboration with service users and the MDT to achieve therapeutic goals.
• To engage the service user in therapeutic activities and encourage and support them to achieve their identified goals.
• To monitor and evaluate treatment in order to measure progress and modify treatment plans to ensure effectiveness of clinical interventions.
• To participate in the clinical decision-making process regarding service user care programmes as part of the MDT.
• To attend relevant case conferences and MDT meetings.
• To plan own workload, managing competing demands to ensure care is delivered according to clinical priority.
• To seek second opinions and highly specialist advice where necessary. Including onward referral for dysphagia assessment.
• To participate in MDT team meetings, promote multi-professional links and play a full role in local initiatives.
• To undertake specialist SLT assessments particularly with men with SLCN and neurodivergent needs.
• To contribute to and support the diagnostic pathways for ASD and other neurodivergent needs.

• To provide timely and accurate reports that provide a diagnosis, assessment and recommendations and comply with best practice guidelines.
• To communicate in a skilled and sensitive manner, information concerning the communication assessment, formulation and treatment plans of service users and to monitor progress during the course of both uni and multi-disciplinary care.
• To work with service users and other members of the MDT to achieve identified goals and to promote social inclusion, independence and well-being. 10. To develop accessible…