Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Whitworth, United Kingdom - Pennine Care NHS Foundation Trust

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Following significant investment, we are expanding our Allied Health Profession provision across our inpatient mental health services.

We are looking for a Speech and Language Therapist to join our AHP inpatient team in the North of the trust working across Rochdale and Oldham.

This is an exciting opportunity working with service users with a range of communication, eating, drinking and swallowing needs.

Please see job description and person specification for full details, this role includes:
To deliver the SLT input for adults with organic and/or functional mental health disorders within inpatient services. Multi-disciplinary Team working and good communication skills are paramount within this role

To be responsible for managing a speech and language therapy caseload within inpatient services

To adhere to national and local standards and guidelines relating to Professional Practice including RCSLT, NICE etc.

To be autonomous and responsible for highly specialist assessment, differential diagnosis, formulation of treatment plans, writing assessment reports, providing appropriate intervention and evaluating the treatment outcome for each individual patient

To be able to relate assessment findings to presenting needs /impairment / pathology

To prioritise, organise and manage a clinical caseload to ensure efficient and effective high quality patient care

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