Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist, Intensive Support Team

The Intensive Support Team is a dedicated and innovative multi-disciplinary team supporting Adults with Learning disabilities to reduce avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate successful discharge back to the community. We are looking for a motivated Highly Specialist SLT to join our skilled MDT comprising a range of professional and assistants. The post holder will be responsible for leading, shaping and developing SLT within the intensive support team by promoting a culture of evidence-based practice and person-centred care.

The role will work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary team colleagues and provide delivery of SLT assessment, treatment and intervention through direct, indirect and consultative models, with the option for providing a dysphagia service if the post-holder wishes. The post holder will have a degree in Speech and Language Therapy and have significant postgraduate experience working with people with learning disability, mental illness, and/or neurodiversity as well as an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the communication and swallowing needs of this patient population.

At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.

We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

These include:

generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us

excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more

salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more

discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes

wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more

staff networks and support groups

We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.