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NELFT NHS Foundation Trust
About
NELFT NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health and community services for over 4.9 million people living in the London Boroughs of Waltham Forest, Redbridge, Barking and Dagenham, Havering, and across Essex and Kent.
We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
Speech & Language Therapist - Adult Learning Disabilirties
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 30-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Community Health and Social Care: Fairlop Cluster Team
- Address
- 852 Cranbrook Road
- Town
- Barkingside. Ilford
- Postcode
- IG6 1HZ
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent: N/A
- Hours
- Full time
- Job share
Salary
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum plus HCAS pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
The post holder will be a HCPC registered Speech and Language Therapist responsible for patients allocated to them and will assess, manage, plan and deliver care, including being professionally and legally accountable.
The post holder will support their peers and team leader and be an effective team member whilst working on their own initiative. They will supervise pre-registration students. They will have a commitment to collaborative working and actively supporting and liaising with other health and social professionals and agencies.
The post holder will work as a member of the Community Learning Disability Team, to provide an efficient, effective and co-ordinated speech and language therapy service.
The post holder will be part of an Adults Integrated service working with Social Care staff, District Nurses, Community Matrons and Community Matrons within the Locality Teams.
The post holder will take a lead role for your clinical area overseeing the whole caseload and providing clinical support for team members.
The post holder will take a lead role in working with young people in transition with learning difficulties providing clinical support for team members.
This post is eligible for the Trust 'Welcome to NELFT' Payment, a lump sum of 10% of agreed basic salary (pro rata if part time and exclusive of HCAS payments) (subject to a minimum of £4,000 and maximum of £10,000) and is open to all new applicants who are successfully appointed. Payment of the incentive is 50% of the lump sum at the end of the probationary period (typically six months) and then 50% at the end of year two. This welcome package is applicable to external candidates only.
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1. To assess, develop and implement Speech and Language Therapy treatment and management for adults with learning disabilities who also have communication, eating and/or swallowing difficulties, and may also have challenging behavior, providing the service to clients across Redbridge in a community person-centered domiciliary role.
2. To be responsible for organising and prioritising own and others workload in the day today allocation of work.
4. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes.
5. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register
6. To work as part of an integrated community learning disability team which will include contribution to co-ordination of case management across various health and social care disciplines.
T To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly moving and handling
Working for our organisation
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
High-Cost Area Supplement
This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,313 and a maximum payment of £5,436) pro rata for part time staff.
Certificates of Sponsorship
Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The job description and person specification have been uploaded on documents.
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
- A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
- A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
- Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
- Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
Supporting our Armed Forces
We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.
Equal opportunities employer
We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [email protected].
Correspondence with us
You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.
In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A recognised professional qualification as Speech & Language Therapist
- Current HCPC Registration
- Evidence of on-going personal and professional development: leadership courses/training
Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
- Minimum of five years post-qualifying experience as SLT including a minimum of three years in learning disability
- Experience of working with adults with a wide range of speech, language and /or communication needs since qualification
- Ability to deliver training internally within the profession and externally to other staff groups, particularly Education.
- Application of standardised Assessments and Outcome measures
- Supervision of students and staff
- Experience of providing training/or making presentations to other professionals
- Experience of assessing swallow function by means of videofluoroscopy
- Experience of developing interventions for dysphagia and monitoring these in the community
- Experience of designing innovative communication tools
- Responsible for a caseload of clients with complex needs
- Risk Assessment and management
- Offering support to carers/families in relation to distressing circumstances
- Working with a range of challenging behaviour
- Safeguarding adults and/or children
- Working as a Team member
- Successfully engaging a range of community based partners and agencies in achieving outcomes for service users
- Use of personal budgets to promote independence and social inclusion
- Experience of leading/managing staff
- Ability to provide leadership to multidisciplinary staff group
- Involvement in clinical audit
- Working as CPA care coordinator or case manager
- Experience of completing Care Reviews
- Experience of being a Safeguarding Adults Manager (SAM) and/or Investigating Officer
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of broad range pf assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to the client group
- Understanding of equality and diversity agenda
- Up to date knowledge of contemporary health and social care legislation and DOH policy direction
- Good understanding of SLT evidence based practice
- Good understanding of risk assessment and management procedures and application of positive risk taking
- Understanding of processes and issues in working with other agencies and partners
- Knowledge of the personalisation agenda and its implementation
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of post-qualification training in SLT
- Application of Care Programme Approach
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate successful collaborative style of working with service users to achieve their goals
- Holistic assessment of service users' needs in regards to communication and swallowing
- Work effectively with a range of agencies coordinating care to achieve service user goals and developing outcomes focused Support plans/interventions
- Express sound clinical reasoning to colleagues and service users to discuss proposed interventions
- Ability to prioritise key tasks and manage time effectively
- Excellent verbal and written communication
- Able to communicate complex information to other professionals, service users and families clearly and effectively.
- Negotiating and motivational skills
- Demonstrable skills in assessing and managing risk
- Ability to apply a range of skills and approaches to empower service users and carers
- Ability to assess complex service users with varied levels of disability and make appropriate recommendations re treatment and interventions
- Ability to work autonomously
- Ability to supervise junior staff
Desirable criteria
- Ability to identify areas of own personal/professional development evidenced by Personal Development Plan/professional portfolio
- Ability to work within infection controland health and safety guidelines in order to deal appropriately and sensitively with clients' unpleasant physical contidions e.g., oral secretions, incontinence, exposure to body fluids, infectious conditions, encountered on a regular basis
- Ability to explore emotionally demanding aspects of the role with appropriate staff in both managerial and clinical supervision as well as in team meetings and informal work related support systems
Other
Essential criteria
- To be aware and demonstrate the Trust Values
- To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
- Ability to work unsocial hours where required, providing high levels of emotional, clinical and managerial input to patients and carers
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cecilia Matsikide
- Job title
- Integrated Team Manger
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087082229
- Additional information
N/A
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