Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Bristol

Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Bristol

Do you bring passion and commitment to delivering high quality care? Do you understand the clinical and sensory needs of people with a Learning Disability, Mental Health and Autism within Criminal Justice? If so this role will provide you with a rare and exciting career opportunity to be part of our new service implementation.

Avon and Wiltshire Partnership (AWP) are looking for an exceptional person to provide leadership to deliver our vision for excellent care for people with a range of vulnerabilities who are going through non-custodial criminal justice processes.

We are working with NHSE to provide a new Integrated Non-Custodial Service (IN-CS) inpatient unit as part of the transformation of end to end pathways in the region. We aim to be a centre of excellence. You will be instrumental in the development, implementation and delivery of the clinical and operational model for the service.

We will support you to develop your knowledge and skills and to further develop your operational and management leadership skills as part of the expanding expertise in Criminal Justice Healthcare AWP making this an exciting career opportunity.

Main duties of the job

As part of a new service, you will be involved in developing and evaluating the speech and language therapy service to deliver high quality including participation in audit, research, and clinical governance.

You will offer assessment and intervention for people who have complex communication needs as well as working with the wider team to share skills, identify training needs, and provide input into formulation.To utilise theory, evidence-based literature and research to support evidence based practice in individual work and work with other team members.

To monitor and review the effectiveness of the clinical work undertaken either personally or jointly with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) to ensure that it reflects the best available evidence for practice.

To participate in data collection, audit, service evaluation and clinical research designed to improve the understanding and effectiveness of services delivered to patients. This will be agreed with theTrust according to clinical governance guidelines and in agreement with the post-holder's service and professional managers.

To undertake project management, including clinical audit and service evaluation to help develop service provision.

About us

We are AWP (Avon and Wiltshire Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust):a diverse organisation with over 5,000 dedicated staff providing inpatient and community-based mental health care.

We provide services from a range of locations to approximately 1.8 million people living in Bath and North East Somerset (B&NES), Bristol, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Swindon, across the county of Wiltshire and in parts of Dorset.

Our outstanding people promote mental health and wellbeing. The expertise and resources within AWP are dedicated to a person-centred approach for those who use our services and for all employees. We recognise that happy and fulfilled employees give better care.

AWP is committed to support and create a positive research and evidence-based environment and culture, which can have a beneficial impact on everyone who works for the organisation and the care we provide to those who use our services.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.

Job responsibilities

To work with the MDT to develop and maintain a philosophy of care for SLT services in line with service and pathway objectives.

To develop a range of therapeutic interventions and care protocols which relate directly to the service philosophy or specific clinical issues.

To regularly review the delivery of the service, working with service managers to look at changes and new initiatives, both national and local, to ensure that the service remains needs led. Including looking at strategies for caseload management.

To undertake relevant research and audit, utilising this to assist development of service delivery according to patient need. In addition, to be involved in clinical governance/audit projects.

To propose and contribute to the development of local clinical guidelines and procedures related to this specialist clinical area for SLT.

Promote multi-disciplinary and inter-agency liaison, collaborative practice and policy development within BNSSG, the Trust and wider agencies.

Advise line managers and other members of the MDT on issues of service delivery including shortfalls, service pressures, clinical evidence base, guidelines etc.

To ensure that all interventions reflect current SLT best practice and adhere to professional standards.

To assess, develop and implement highly specialist programmes of care and treatment to meet the needs of all patients, including highly complex cases, offering direct interventions for highly complex patients, indirect programmes carried out by other members of the team supported by the SLT for those with less complex needs, and developing, then supporting universal strategies for use by members of the MDT.

To use assessment material and information to offer differential diagnosis in patients with highly complex presentations and needs.

To be involved in the development and implementation of outcome measures for all therapeutic interventions.

To work collaboratively with the patients clinical team towards shared treatment goals with clear, structured care plans. This will involve negotiation with others around complex case management.

To maintain notes and provide reports on clients communication to clinical teams both within the Trust and upon discharge in line with Service, Trust and professional guidelines and policies.

To lead in the delivery of a comprehensive and effective speech and language therapy service.

Person SpecificationQualifications

• Registered Speech and Language Therapist

Skills

• High level analytical skills

Experience

• Diverse experience including mental health
• Experience of working in Multiagency settings
• Experience of mamaging complex caseload/ workload demands
• Experience of criminal Justice or forensics

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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