Principal Speech and Language Therapist

Are you an experienced Speech and Language Therapist with specialist skills and knowledge working with Adult Learning Disabilities (ALD) and an interest in behaviour that challenges/Mental Health? Are you interested in taking on a leadership role alongside a complex clinical caseload? This is a rare and exciting opportunity to join the highly respected Oxleas ALD Speech and Language Therapy (SaLT) service as a Band 8a Principal. You will be providing clinical input to the Tri-Borough (Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich) Intensive Community Support Team, working with complex adults with LD who are at risk of placement breakdown and/or hospital admission. You will provide professional, clinical leadership to the B7 Highly Specialist SaLTs and other SaLT staff based in the three Community Learning Disability Teams supporting a consistent and integrated approach to service delivery. You will be supported by a Consultant SaLT.Main duties of the job Overview of the Post To take responsibility for own highly specialised, complex caseload. To provide professional leadership, supervision, and mentoring to Speech and Language Therapists and Support Staff across the community learning disability teams/services To act as a key contributor in the development of adult learning disability services To provide advice and training to carers, non-specialists and other specialists/ professionals within clinical field and for other agencies as required. To act as a key contributor to clinical audit and research within the service, taking responsibilities for such activities within specialist area.

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