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    Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom - Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

    Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
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    An exciting new challenge has arisen for highly specialist speech and language therapist (SALT) to join Oxleas NHS trust in our South West prisons.

    This is a brand-new service and we are looking for a experienced Speech and Language Therapists to join our highly specialist multidisciplinary teams in the South West.


    We are recruiting for a part time (22.6 WTE) Speech and Language Therapist to work across our 2 sites in Portland, HMP Portland & HMP The Verne.

    You will support play a key role in implementing our vision and integration into our established healthcare services.


    As SALT's, you will complement our multidisciplinary team and bridge the gap between existing learning disability (LD) provision and offender healthcare services providing assessments, consultation and co-working with complex clients with LD and autism who present a risk of harm to others.

    The service will also support service users with a complex mix of neurodevelopmental, speech, language, and communication, dysphagia, mental health, and intellectual disability needs who are high-risk, high-harm, high-vulnerability individuals.


    As a highly specialist Speech and Language therapist, you will provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessments and interventions for service users who have a variety of complex communication and/or swallowing needs.

    This will include adults with neurodiversity and neurological conditions.


    Whilst doing so, you willact as part of a multi-disciplinary team and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service within your region.


    As a specialist in your field, you will provide specialist advice to prison officers, other speech and language therapists, professionals, and stakeholders within and outside of the Prison/Trust with regards to their specialist area, ensuring carers and family are involved in care where appropriate/possible.


    Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison.

    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, children's centres, schools and people's homes.


    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. We Care

    Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings.

    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.


    Oxleas are the lead provider across 10 South West prisons and operate in Devon and Dorset in addition to the above.


    Our wider 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.

    Management responsibilities

    To induct, train, review work performance and clinically supervise/appraise colleagues, as identified.

    To contribute to the development of Speech and Language Therapy Service policies and procedures, including participation in projects and quality improvement initiatives.

    To plan and deliver training courses
    Clinical record keeping is of a consistent high standard and meets trust policy and practice guidance.

    Deliver evidence-based practice regarding specialist speech and language therapy assessment, goal setting, intervention and evaluation.
    Monitor specialised packages of care including direct therapy, advice, and training. To participate in professionals meetings both within the healthcare department as well as wider prison.

    To have a working knowledge of relevant procedures and policy including The Mental Health Act, Valuing People, The Mental Capacity Act, Liberty Protection Safeguards, Safeguarding Adults and other legal frameworks.


    ~ To follow Health and Safety guidelines regarding unpleasant working conditions, e.g., To contribute to regular and ongoing audits of Speech and Language Therapy Service work in order to contribute to knowledge of clinical effectiveness and outcomes.
    To develop own skills through training, support, supervision, and study.

    To liaise with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Teams, this may include prison discipline staff, support staff, other healthcare disciplines, and commissioners.

    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 provide accurate and contemporaneous statistical information in accordance with local standards
    To use basic word processing skills and specialist software packages to develop communication aids and accessible information

    Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.


    Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.


    Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited .

    Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website ( ).
    Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
    Health Care Professions Council - Licence to Practice
    Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapist
    Evidence of post qualification dysphagia training

    Positive Behaviour Support, social stories, completion of further education and/or CPD relating to Autism.

    Significant post graduate experience which demonstrates the competencies to meet the role requirements outlined in the JD
    Experience working with people with learning difficulties/disabilities, Autistic people
    Experience of providing a range of therapeutic interventions for adults who may have additional complexities impacting their communication, such as mental health, trauma, discrimination and social factors
    Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

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