This is an exciting new post providing a unique opportunity to support the development of the Speech and Language Therapy provision in a young offenders prison within the South London forensic services. We are looking for a speech and language therapist to join our rich MDT and contribute to the SLT pathway within our mental health care provision in a challenging but rewarding environment.
Clinical
- To work as a member of the Integrated Mental Health Team at HMP/YOI Isis.
- To exercise professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment and case closure of service users.
- To be professionally accountable for own caseload, working autonomously in a variety of settings.
- To act as lead professional for those on the allocated caseload.
- To undertake speech and language assessments of service users based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of information from a variety of sources including formal and informal assessment, observation and interviews with service users, and others involved in the service user’s care.
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
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emily Chitty Job title: Consultant Clinical Psychologist Email address: emily.chitty4@nhs.net
020 3356 4385 HMP Isis
