Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

An exciting opportunity as emerged to join the Oxleas Adult Autism Service as we seek to appoint a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist to join our service within the new Community Autism Service (CAS) and the Autism Acute Support Team (AAST) working with Autistic adults with complex mental health difficulties and without a learning disability.

CAS is a newly established service focused on delivering specialist community based support to autistic adults without a learning disability and without a mental health condition that would make them eligible for other services. AAST is a long established service supporting autistic adults without a learning disability who are admitted to acute care due to a mental health crisis.

The post will be split across both teams, with a strong emphasis on close collaboration with multidisciplinary teams and on delivering high quality assessment and intervention for individuals with Speech, Language and Communication Needs (SLCN).

• Manage own caseload of patients within CAS and AAST.
• Line manage/clinically supervise SaLT Co workers, SaLT Assistant and SaLT Students as needed.
• Deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to patients in partnership with their families/carers and the MDT.
• Act as part of the multi disciplinary mental health team and represent the Speech and Language Therapy Service at Team/Directorate meetings/working parties.

• Member of RCSLT.
• HCPC Registration.

• Previously working in a health MDT.
• Previously worked as a SaLT within an Autism service.
• Previously worked as a SaLT in mental health.

• Knowledge of the relationships/interactions between Autism, Speech, Language and Communication Needs and Mental Illness.
• Awareness of a range of specialist assessment tools.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.