Advanced Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

It is a condition of this employment that you must live in and remain a resident of the United Kingdom during your employment with the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health trust with a focus on training and education alongside a full range of mental health services and psychological therapies for children and their families, young people and adults.

We are committed to improving mental health and emotional wellbeing, believing that high quality mental health services should be available for all who need them. We bring a distinctive contribution based on the importance we attach to social experience at all stages of people’s lives, and our focus on psychological and developmental approaches to the promotion of health and the prevention and treatment of mental ill health

We aim to share our ideas and practice through as many routes as possible.

As a Trust we aim constantly to be evolving in nature and form in relation to the environment in which we work, to ensure that our contribution remains relevant.

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Job overview

They will work as a gender specialist SLT and independently manage a caseload of trans and gender diverse service users in the delivery of high-quality voice exploration and modification therapy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Deliver the highest quality, compassionate, trans-affirmative, effective care to trans and non-binary service users
• Carry out initial appointment and therapy for trans and non-binary service users (including some complex cases) in individual, group and workshop voice and communication therapy sessions, in liaison with Lead Consultant SLT
• Contribute to multi-disciplinary team working, case discussion and CPD sessions.
• Clinically supervise junior SLT team members as required in liaison with the Lead Consultant SLT
• Contribute to training within the GIC MDT and SLT team in liaison with the Lead Consultant SLT
• Be placement educator coordinator for student SLT clinical placements in liaison with the Lead Consultant SLT
• Contribute to service delivery developments in liaison with the Lead Consultant, Principal and Advanced SLTs team members.

Working for our organisation

THE GIC SPEECH AND LANGAUGE THERAPY (SLT) SERVICE:

Within this multidisciplinary team, the SLT service aims to support service users to find and sustain their authentic voice which fits with their sense of self. This is delivered through introductory workshops, initial assessment appointments, individual and group therapy programmes, and specific workshops (e.g. the singing voice). The service leads on protocol development, cutting edge research and training of established and developing specialists’ speech and language therapists in the field.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person specification for more information on the role requirements and duties.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy qualification
• HCPC Registration and License to Practice
• Certified Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
• Evidence of successful completion and portfolio of advanced and short courses in clinical voice assessment and therapy, counselling skills and vocal skills development
• Member of relevant RSCLT Clinical Excellence Networks

• Certificate or equivalent in counselling skills; some evidenced study (reading log/CPD attendance certificate) in other therapeutic supportive approaches (e.g. Solution Focused Brief Therapy, Mindfulness)
• Member of British Association of Gender Identity Specialists (BAGIS)

Experience

• Significant developing experience in clinical voice and trans voice and communication therapy (minimum 3 years)
• Significant experience MDT working
• Experience as placement educator and supervising junior SLTs
• Significant and ongoing personal experiential voice development
• Developing experience in trans voice and clinical voice
• Experience of MDT working

• Qualification in voice coaching and pedagogy

Knowledge and Skills

• Highly specialist knowledge of and skills in a wide range of therapeutic models and evidence base in clinical voice disorders and voice and communication therapy and vocal pedagogy – especially in pitch, resonance, intonation and voice quality
• Knowledge of counselling and psychological approaches (e.g. Rogerian Person-centred, CBT, SFBT, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy)
• Knowledge of relevant international and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists professional and clinical guidelines

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The Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We are particularly keen to attract candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to better meet the needs of the service users and students that we serve.

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Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.

Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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• The closing date given is a guide. We reserve the right to close the vacancy once we have received sufficient applications, so we advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.
• Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification on their application will be shortlisted for this job.
• Candidates suitable for shortlisting will be contacted within three weeks. If you have not heard from us within this time then you have not been successful on this occasion.
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