Band 5 Community Speech and Language Therapist

You will be working across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland as part of a wide-ranging MDT, supporting a huge variety of patients with a learning disability and communication difficulties. You will be working in homes, day services, with carers, families and the individuals themselves to ensure that everyone is included in the planning and delivery of care. We also have the opportunity to work in our LD Crisis Support team supporting urgent communication assessments. You will find us a supportive team, with lots of supervision, CPD opportunities and the chance to develop special interests. We have fun too, with regular health and wellbeing activities that we would love you to be a part of. We offer flexible and hybrid working policies, free parking at base and free uniform!,

• Contribute to the delivery of the Communication Strategy and the Eating and Drinking Care Pathway with access to professional advice and guidance.
• Be responsible for their own workload with support around prioritisation.
• Work closely with other members of the multidisciplinary team and with other agencies
• Participate in the development and delivery of training to others in relation to individual clients
• Supervise the work of assistants, volunteers and students as required when fully registered with RCSLT
• Contribute to development and audit projects
• Demonstrate clinical effectiveness by the use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
  
  Are you a newly qualified speech and language therapist or do you have a little more experience? Do you want to work as part of a small but supportive team making a real difference to the lives of people with a learning disability? If so, we'd love to hear from you.
  
  We may close the advert early, if we receive a sufficient number of applicants, so please apply as soon as possible. About Us Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups. Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents. We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied