About this role
Job summary
This role is a great opportunity if you have ever wondered about a job in mental health.
Although this is a fixed term role, it will give you the opportunity to work jointly with Highly Specialist and Consultant Speech and Language Therapists across a range of working age and older adult mental health wards.
We work with patients and ward staff to support communication and manage dysphagia by providing assessment, recommendations, therapy and training. This post would allow you to find out more about this fascinating and rapidly developing specialist area of Speech and Language Therapist practice. We welcome applications from both Band 5s who have completed the NQP competencies and B6 staff. This can be offered as a secondment.
Main duties of the job
To manage own caseload of patients with mental health needs who have SLCN and/or Dysphagia/Choking Risks To line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant and SaLT Students as directed by Clinical Lead SaLT To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to patients with mental health needs in partnership with their families/carers and the MDT; To act as part of the multi-disciplinary mental health team and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.
About us
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're Fair We Listen We Care
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see job description for full details.
To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the SLCN of patients with complex/challenging mental health needs To diagnose the SLC impairments of patients with complex/challenging mental health needs To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the Dysphagia/Choking Risks of patients with complex/challenging mental health needs To diagnose dysphagia in patients with complex/challenging mental health needs To plan, implement and monitor specialised packages of care including direct therapy, advice and training To contribute to specialist multi-disciplinary assessment and care packages To contribute to medical diagnosis including differential diagnosis To contribute to and carry out Capacity to Consent Assessments in accordance with the Mental Capacity Act To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness by the use of evidence-based practice and clinical outcome measures
Person Specification
Qualifications and registration Essential
Qualified SaLT/RCSLT/HCPC registration
Experience Essential
Completed NQP competencies Worked in MDT setting
Desirable
Experience working with children or adults with social emotional and/or mental health needs in any capacity Experience as a Speech and Language Therapist in CYP or Adult Mental Health services
Knowledge and Skills Essential
Awareness of a range of speech, language and communication informal and formal assessment approaches appropriate for patient group
Desirable
Post Basic Dysphagia training/competencies
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Address Queen Mary's Hospital
Frognal Avenue
Sidcup
DA14 6LT
Employer's website http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)