Speech and Language Therapist

Job Overview:

• The Transforming Care Autism service was developed to meet the needs of autistic individuals at risk of admission to, or within, mainstream mental health services. 
• The Speech and Language Therapist will have opportunities to shape the best use of speech and language therapy input to this client group, as part of a small multidisciplinary team.
• The team approach is two-fold: 1. Increase capability of mainstream adult mental health services to work with autistic adults through teaching and training; and 2. Provide a crisis response for named service users at risk of admission, working with the treating mental health teams.
• The team consists of a range of professionals including Psychological Practitioners, an Occupational Therapist, Behavioural Practitioner, Speech and Language Therapist, Consultant Psychiatrist and a Community Nurse. The team is friendly and supportive and works closely together to ensure the best outcomes of the individuals we work with.

Main duties of the role:

Job Purpose:

• To provide specialist interventions according to discipline including specialist assessment, treatment, planning, implementation and monitoring of outcomes.
• To contribute to enabling other staff, service users and carers from diverse backgrounds to flourish by working to create a psychologically safe environment.
• To provide clinical supervision and consultation as appropriate.
• To promote service evaluation, audit and research.
• To work as an autonomous professional within registration body guidelines and codes of conduct, and guided by the policies and procedures of the service, taking responsibility for own work including treatment and discharge decisions with support of clinical supervisor
• To offer training to mainstream services.
• To be active in the provision of staff support within their area, including but not limited to Critical Incident Staff Support and Reflect-Support-Resolve. To participate, as a recipient, in staff support work when appropriate.

Working for our organisation

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

We are committed to get the very best out of our staff and support staff in their career aspirations. We have career pathways available, where you will be able to develop your skills and build on your experience with the aim of progressing into other roles across the organisation. For this role, we offer support to develop  management and leadership skills and knowledge as required. In addition, we offer ongoing training and development including weekly Education and Research meetings across the pathway and beyond.

Agile and flexible working:

As one of the few Trusts in London we are proud to offer flexible working as part of our new ways of working, and we are happy to talk flexible working at the interview stage. Although the core hours for the service are Monday to Friday, in the time frame from 9 to 5, there are opportunities to work outside of these hours, giving you the very best of good work life balance.