Job overview

This is a unique opportunity for someone with very good experience working  with people with communication impairments including working with ASD, learning disabilities and other special needs, to join the Speech and Language Therapy Team on a fixed term contract.

As a member of the Learning Disabilities Speech & Language Therapy Service, you will be supporting the delivery of high-quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention to people with Learning Disabilities and their carers in order to improve health and well-being and prevent ill-health. 

Main duties of the job

• To contribute to the delivery of high-quality speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people with a Learning Disability and their carers including both communication and dysphagia/swallowing support and health improvement.
• To analyse the need for, develop and produce easy read/accessible information appropriate to the individual service user’s health and communication needs to improve their health and well-being.
• To be involved in specialist multi-disciplinary assessment (including gathering and analysing case history information) and care packages.
• To identify, develop and deliver training packages appropriate to the audience need.
• To identify, develop and implement therapy resources and low-tech communication aids (e.g. communication passports, photo resources, symbol timetables, visual topic boards etc.) following clinical assessment, which involves making judgements about what is required, appropriate and achievable.
• To manage own clinical caseload including creating care plans with oversight from experienced SLTs.
• To use good word processing skills to create accessible information resources. To be able to use specialist software packages to programme communication aids and to create symbol resources.
• To independently programme and edit different software packages used in high tech communication voice output devices and iPad apps.

Working for our organisation

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