Job Description

Join our dedicated NHS team where you'll make a meaningful difference in the lives of adults with learning disabilities whilst advancing your specialist speech and language therapy career.

Job Purpose

Barnet Integrated Learning Disabilities Team aims to provide a specialist Health and Social Service for Adults with Learning Disability who live in or originate from the borough.


To provide a Speech and Language Therapy Service to adults with learning disabilities residing in Barnet.


The post holder provides highly specialist assessment, treatment and diagnosis to Adults with a Learning Disability referred to the multi-agency Adult Learning Disability Team in Barnet, acting as a specialist resource to other medical, nursing, education and therapy staff and providing second opinions in this specialist clinical area.


The post holder will be required to use highly developed auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adults with learning disabilities who have complex communication difficulties and may also have challenging needs and/or eating and swallowing difficulties.


The post holder will lead the speech and language therapy team, being responsible for ensuring governance of the service, staff management/development and achieving service delivery in line with the service specification.

Key Responsibilities

To develop and provide a Speech and Language Therapy Service consisting of assessment, diagnosis and treatment to adults with learning disabilities who have complex communication difficulties, challenging needs and/or eating and swallowing difficulties To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness To analyse and transcribe all aspects of client speech and language at the level of phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, prosody and pragmatics as necessary To employ manual dexterity in the manipulation and stimulation of the orofacial process To carry out highly specialised physical examination of the orofacial process, including deglutition (swallowing) To simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

Benefits

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role Car lease scheme T&C's apply Flexible working options Annual travel card loan Training, support and development in your career Flexitime
To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Please see attached and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.

Benefits:


Flexitime
Work Location: In person