LDA Outreach Practitioner (Speech and Language Therapist)

LDA Outreach Practitioner (Speech and Language Therapist)

We are seeking highly motivated, innovative, compassionate, and clinically-experienced registered clinicians to join the newly established Learning Disability and Autism (LDA) Outreach Team at Devon Partnership NHS Trust.

These exciting new clinical leadership Band 7 roles will involve working in collaboration with other LDA Outreach colleagues, community learning disability and autism colleagues, in addition to colleagues from 'The Brook', our 10-bedded Learning Disability and Autism inpatient unit.

We are seeking broad multidisciplinary representation, including Mental Health and Learning Disability nursing, in addition to AHPs with Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy backgrounds.

You should have extensive clinical knowledge, advanced clinical leadership skills, and be able to prioritize and manage workload. You should also have excellent safeguarding, Mental Health Act, and Mental Capacity Act knowledge, in addition to advanced interpersonal, communication, formulation, and risk assessment skills.

• Interviews are currently scheduled to take place on 16th / 17th January 2025 - Subject to change

A relocation package is available as part of this offer - See the attached document for further information on our relocation package.

This post is offered at Band 7 subject to job matching.

Main duties of the job

We welcome applications from clinicians who can proficiently demonstrate and promote effective clinical leadership and practice to the highest evidence-based standards.

Post holders will require the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a multiprofessional team.

A central part of the role involves triaging, assessing, planning, and delivering complex care packages to admission-vulnerable service users across Devon and for those discharged from The Brook, whilst ensuring proactive liaison with other partner agencies, families, and care providers at every stage of care.

Devon Partnership NHS Trust is looking to become a recognized centre of excellence and expertise. The successful applicant should hold the Trust's values and have the competencies and confidence to inspire and involve staff to help reach this target over the next five years.

We welcome telephone enquiries about the post.

About us

We provide mental health, learning disability, and neurodiversity services, as well as a range of specialist & secure services for the wider south west region & nationally. We are passionate about promoting good mental health & wellbeing. We strive to use the expertise & resources within our organization, and through our partnerships, to deliver high-quality services that are safe & focused on people's recovery.

We are committed to developing a culture of coproduction, involving patients, families & carers in everything we do.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications & experience - we recruit individuals who possess & demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. These include such attributes as showing a commitment to quality of care, improving lives of others, giving respect, dignity & compassion. We can bring those values to life in our everyday tasks by giving a smile, making time for people, challenging ourselves & others, & being open to new ideas.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer & applications are encouraged & welcomed from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics as governed by the Equality Act 2010. Part-time & flexible working applications will be considered & supported, where possible. We particularly encourage applicants with lived experience of mental health conditions, neurodiversity, or learning disabilities. We are a Disability Confident Leader.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification (which is pending job matching) which will provide further information on this role.

Person Specification

Communication and working relationship skills

• Excellent communication skills including the ability to engage with large groups who may be antagonistic.
• Ability to produce well-written reports.
• Ability to chair and participate in meetings which encompass complex organizational structures.

Physical skills

• Ability to be mobile across a county-wide geographical area.

Analytical and judgement skills

• Able to own problems and get involved in the solutions.
• Ability to manage risk.

Other skills

• Excellent clinical assessment skills.
• Ability to manage change in a positive manner.

Planning and organisational skills

• Supervisory skills.
• Ability to manage own time and that of the team.
• Ability to work flexibly.

Experience

• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency environment.
• Extensive experience of managing a busy caseload of clients with a range of mental health needs.
• Substantial experience of working at a senior clinical level.
• Working within a community mental health, learning disability, or neurodiversity setting in either the statutory or voluntary sector.
• Providing clinical supervision and managing staff.
• Setting up or working within a new service.
• Experience of managing and developing services.

Knowledge

• Specialist knowledge and experience in working in learning disability and autism services.
• An excellent understanding of the NSF and Mental Health Act/Mental Capacity Act requirements.
• Awareness of community structures and social care options and processes.
• Understanding of Positive Behavioural Support and Trauma Informed Practice.

Qualifications

• A professional learning disability or mental health nursing qualification e.g. RNLD, RMN, Nursing Degree, Qualified Occupational Therapist with extensive learning disability and/or mental health experience, Speech and Language Therapist with extensive learning disability and/or mental health experience.
• Postgraduate qualification relevant to specialism or commitment to work towards.
• Further specialist training to masters equivalent level.
• Training to level 3 in Safeguarding Adults, Children and Young People: roles and competencies for Health Care staff or commitment to work towards.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.