Speech and Language Therapist
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Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a speech and language therapist to work in specialist adult mental health services (working age adults and Older Peoples Services) in Leeds and York Partnership Foundation NHS Trust. The role would provide dysphagia and communication assessments and interventions to adults who have a mental health condition and are in an in-patient setting.Intervention includes individual and group sessions and is an area of development working inclusively with service users and with the MDT.
The position will be based within both the rehabilitation and recovery services and The Mount, where there is the highest level of need. The rehabilitation and recovery service works with adults who have a severe and enduring mental illness and consists of three in-patient wards based in the community, as well as a community transitional rehabilitation team.The Mount has 4 inpatient wards for Older People with acute mental health needs including dementia. Both services has an effective and dynamic multi-disciplinary team consisting of psychologists, occupational therapists, dietitians, nurses, healthy living advisors and support staff.
The role will be operationally responsible to operational management across both services and clinically responsible to the Principle Speech and Language Therapist and Allied Health Professional Lead.
Main duties of the job
This role would provide the opportunity to develop your clinical skills with this patient group. The rehabilitation and recovery services are currently developing a new Complex Psychosis Pathway and you will have the opportunity to be involved in this exciting service development.
To utilise your core speech and language therapy skills to provide high quality speech and language therapy interventions to working age adults with a mental illness, and to older persons unit (mental illness and dementia)- To work as a member of a multi-disciplinary team offering a comprehensive service to service users who require specialist health interventions.
- To participate in the ongoing development and maintenance of quality services, ensuring ongoing commitment to the care programme approach, managing complex care directly, and indirectly eg training staff in strategies to support communication and/or safer swallowing.
- To participate in the education and supervision of a range of students.
- To maintain clear links with your speech and language therapy structures, Principal SLT and your AHP lead within the Trust.
- Support the speech and language therapy team development, promoting SLT role within multidisciplinary team and alerting managers to areas of SLT need and service development
- Adherence to RCSLT speech and language therapy standards and codes of practice
Working for our organisation
The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country.As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.
Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We welcome enquiries and applications from aspiring or practising Band 6 SLTs looking to develop your skills and experience working with people with mental health conditions. This also presents an ideal secondment opportunity with approval from your current employer.
We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.
All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team [email protected]
Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.
If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.
So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.
For informal enquiries please contact:
Susan Guthrie - 07970 905076 - [email protected]Emma Pearce - 07790977168 - [email protected]
Emma Pearce
Person specification
Qualifications / Registration
Essential criteria- Diploma, degree or masters speech and language therapy qualification recognised by RCSLT
- Registration with HCPC
Experience
Essential criteria- Fully completed NQP competencies and post graduate competencies in dysphagia
Knowledge
Essential criteria- Experience in working with adults with mental illness
- Experience in staff training and working with multidisciplinary team
Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.
Fixed Term Contracts for existing NHS Employees – temporary contracts for employees of LYPFT, or colleagues joining from another NHS Trust, will be offered on a secondment basis wherever possible. In the event this is not possible, an FTC would be issued and this would require a break in service of two weeks.
The purpose of a temporary is role could be for maternity cover, temporary funding or some other reason. At the end of which the need for the temporary work will cease. Temporary roles can stop, be extended and/or made permanent at any point during the period of work.Should the role become permanent then the post-holder will be informed of the process to be followed to convert the position to a permanent one.
Please note that from 1st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.
Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response.LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children. Please refer to job description for further information.
LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria.
We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs.
Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if enough applications are received. It is in the candidate’s best interest to apply as soon as possible. In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.
In applying for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not.
If you have not received any communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.
Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.