Job Description

Do you want to work in a supportive environment of health and social care professionals who are dedicated to helping people with learning disability to engage and participate in their local community and improve their quality of life while maintaining good work/life balance?



Greenwich CLDT has received new funding to recruit a full-time Band 6 position within a well-established Adult Learning Disability (ALD) Speech and Language Therapy Team. This post will be part of a team that includes a Band 7, Band 6s and SaLT Co-worker who work as part of a robust group of AHPs (psychiatry, psychology, physical health and mental health nurses, physios, OTs, art and music therapists) alongside their social work colleagues in an integrated CLDT.



To work as a Specialist Speech and Language Therapist within the Adult Learning Disability Directorate, delivering high quality assessment and intervention to young people and adults with Learning Disabilities and their carers, with a particular focus on Transition.



We are looking for an enthusiastic therapist to come and join our well respected and innovative Adult Learning Disability (ALD) Directorate Speech and Language Therapy service. Therapists play an essential role within each Borough's multi-agency community ALD team and contribute to a number of clinical pathways delivering high quality care to people with learning disabilities and their carers. There is opportunity to develop a specialism, such as transition work for young people entering adult services, within the team depending upon your interests and the needs of the service.



Please contact if you have any questions or want more information about the post.



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



Key Task and Responsibilities



To manage own caseload of clients with Learning Disabilities and with communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties

To line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co-workers, SaLT Assistant and Specialist Support Workers and students as directed by Functional Team Manager and Professional Lead for ALD SaLT

To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities in partnership with their families/carers

To plan and deliver training courses

To act as part of the multi-disciplinary Learning Disability teams and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.

To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the communication skills and needs of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs and their carers

To diagnose the communication impairments of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs

To carry out and interpret specialist assessments of the eating and drinking (dysphagia) skills and needs of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs

To diagnose eating and drinking impairments of people with learning disabilities including those with complex/challenging needs

To plan, implement and monitor specialised packages of care including direct therapy, advice and training

To demonstrate well-developed specialist communication and presentation skills at all times

To adapt spoken and written information to suit the communication needs of the listener/audience

To liaise with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Learning Disability and Transitions Teams

To maintain close links with School, College, Day and Residential Service and Staff/Managers

To develop and deliver specialist presentations and training to a range of audiences including Service Users, carers, staff and Professional colleagues, in both small and large groups

To adapt information to meet the specific communication needs of people with learning disabilities by identifying and producing accessible versions

To maintain clinical records in accordance with local standards

To provide letters and reports as necessary in accordance with local standards