Speech and Language Therapist: Hmp Fosse Way - Wigston Magna, United Kingdom - Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Wigston Magna, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Speech and Language Therapist to join the Offender Health Directorate working at HMP Fosse Way.

HMP Fosse Way is set to open in mid-2023 and is a Category C Resettlement Prison.

HMP Fosse Way will house 1,715 prisoners and focus on the rehabilitation of offenders and their reintegration back into society.

It consists of 7 House blocks across 4 floors.

There is a dedicated healthcare suite located in the main building with also additional multi use rooms across the establishment including rooms for groups or 1-2-1's.

You will assist in the identification and support of people with Neurodevelopmental Conditions, including Autism, Attention Deficit (Hyperactivity) Disorder and Learning /Intellectual Disabilities, Speech Language and Communication Needs, in your designated prison establishment and across prisons, supporting complex differential diagnosis.

The role requires a high level of clinical and professional expertise to support healthcare and prison staff to understand and make reasonable adjustments for the communication needs of men in prison with neurodiverse needs.

You will be working within specialist multi-disciplinary services for Offender Health.

You will work within your base prison mental health team, who provide mental health assessment and treatment for adult male prisoners, including those with neurodevelopmental conditions.

You will be a member of the Neurodiversity Team of practitioners who provide healthcare to neurodiverse prisoners across the Offender Health Directorate and will be required to support Neurodiversity Practitioners working in other prisons in the East Midlands.

The role also demands collaborative working with mental health, substance misuse and primary care in the prison and community and with colleagues working across the prison system in education, residential, safer custody, psychology and offender management.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences.

We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The Offender Health Directorate is one of the largest and most successful providers of prison healthcare in the UK.

The Directorate provide physical, mental health and substance misuse healthcare services in prisons across the East Midlands, Lincolnshire & Leicestershire.

The Directorate provides healthcare to 9 prisons and a short term holding facility.

You are part of a large peer group of 400+ healthcare professionals with access to peer support, supervision and excellent opportunities for learning and development.

We also offer services within the Personality Disorder Pathway, including Therapeutic Communities (within prisons), Community and Prison Personality Disorder services and specialist Veteran Services.

We are committed to working in partnership with prison services, national probation service other healthcare providers and our criminal justice system partners to improve health, support justice to reduce re-offending behaviour.

The Offender Health Team truly believes it can make a difference to the lives of offenders by offering consistent, high-quality care in primary, mental health and substance misuse services that are equivalent to health services delivered outside of Prison.

Our DBS check is free, you have no fees to pay