Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

Our Learning Disabilities Care Hub delivers care in the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with primary care, local authorities and other social and health care and voluntary sector providers. The Learning Disabilities Care Hub consists of community learning disability teams for adults, children and young people as well as two residential services. Our service users are at the heart of everything we do, and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible experience as well as delivering safe, high-quality care.

The post holder will be based at Radcliffe Place, in Bury. The postholder will work closely with clinicians, commissioners, VCSE, learning disability teams, and service users, families and carers.

We are looking to appoint a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist who is passionate about improving the lives of people with a learning disability, their families and carers working in the award winning admissions avoidance service, Radcliffe Place. The postholder will develop and provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to service users who have complex communication and dysphagia needs within the context of a multidisciplinary team.

This will involve working with vulnerable and extremely challenging individuals. Assessment and interventions will be delivered using person and relationship centered approaches within the unit and at times, across the learning disability care hub supporting other locality community learning disability teams.

We are proud to provide high quality mental health and learning disability services, both inpatient and in the community across five boroughs of Greater Manchester - Bury, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop.

Our vision is for a happier and more hopeful life for everyone in our communities and our staff work hard to deliver the very best care for the people who use our services. We're really proud of our#Pennine Care People and do everything we can to make sure we're a great place to work.

Our NHS Staff Survey show that Pennine Care is the most improved mental health and learning disability trust in the country for being seen as a good place to work.

All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership are encouraged to apply for this post. We would also encourage applications from individuals with a lived experience of mental illness, either individually or as a carer.

Please see full JD and PS for details.

Main Duties and Responsibilities To be responsible for the delivery of a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy service to service users with a learning disability. This includes dealing with complex case management issues and generating appropriate strategies to manage these. Provide a high level of clinical and professional expertise in order to ensure the delivery of safe and effective multi-disciplinary pathways of care, in partnership with other members of the multi-disciplinary leadership teams.

To be autonomous and responsible for the assessment, formulation and management of a specialist clinical caseload of service users with a learning disability who may have additional complex needs as a result of diagnoses such as autism, downs syndrome, cerebral palsy and dementia. To make complex clinical decisions following assessment and develop highly specialist individualised care plans based on the evidence base and to develop appropriate strategies to facilitate communicative effectiveness.

To work as an integral part of the Learning Disability Crisis Response Service and multi-disciplinary teams across the care hub by providing clinical leadership to care planning and service delivery. To work in partnership with service users, carers, and families, agreeing decision making relevant to the client management and in this way ensure that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans at a level they understand wherever possible.

To act as a source of specialist information to other members of the team to ensure service users communication needs are recognised and met in line with the Accessible Information Standard. To demonstrate knowledge of and adhere to RCSLT Professional and Clinical and National and Local Clinical Guidelines, evidence-based practice and standards for advice and clinical interventions. To work within defined legal, service and national protocols/policies and professional codes of conduct.

To work collaboratively with a range of staff from other localities and referrers, to assess needs and formulate action plans along care pathways

To monitor, review and update all treatment plans and programmes of care totake account of progress, deterioration or other changes in the service users condition, circumstances or…