Speech and Language Therapy Co-worker
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This is a very rare and exciting opportunity to work for six months with Specialist Speech and Language Therapists (SaLT) across the Trust's Mental Health Inpatient Wards. SaLTs assess, diagnose and treat patients with speech, language and communication needs and swallowing impairments. You will work under the direction of the SaLTs to support identification of patients needing assessment and to help deliver the support and treatment they need. You will be expected to attend ward rounds to represent the SaLT service. You will need to develop a good working relationship with patients and ward staff including nurses, psychiatrists and other therapists. Previous experience working with people with mental illness or learning disabilities would be preferable.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- GCSE English and Maths
Desirable
- Degree Level qualification in relevant subject
Experience
Essential
- Previous experience working with people with communication difficulties
- Previous role in Mental Health, Learning Disability or SEND settings
- Awareness of the role of Speech and Language Therapy
Desirable
- Previous experience developing Easy Read information
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent verbal and non verbal communication skills and ability to adapt these to suit the needs of the communication partner
- Ability to manage own workload efficiently
Desirable
- Dysphagia awareness
About the employer
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: