Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist, Mental Health

Job summary This is an exciting opportunity to lead a small team of Speech and Language Therapists working in Mental Health Services on both wards and in the community. The service is commissioned by Camden and Islington Mental Health Trust, soon to become North London Mental Health Partnership NHS Trust. The post holder will be responsible for leading the SLT service, managing referrals, clinical supervision, students, training, and providing quarterly reports for the trust. They will also continue working in partnership with SLT colleagues in the new trust and Whittington Health SLT alliance to foster new opportunities including CPD and trust initiatives relating to SLT. Main duties of the job The SLT team in Mental Health provides a specialist service to adults and older people with mental health problems in a wide range of hospital and community settings across Camden and Islington. The post holder is an autonomous practitioner and is responsible for overseeing the clinical work of the SLT team. They are responsible for organizing and managing a defined caseload of adults and older people while delivering a comprehensive and highly specialist service to adults and older people with a wide range of complex speech, language, communication, and swallowing problems associated with mental health problems and/or neurological deficit. They will lead on providing advice, guidance, support, and training for clients, carers, nursing staff, and other professionals. The post holder will take the lead in the provision of the dysphagia service and management of older people with mental health problems, setting priorities, initiating clinical protocols, and service developments as appropriate. They will set up and lead project groups within the service and on a multi-disciplinary basis. The post holder will initiate and take a lead for quality improvement projects to be undertaken within the team as required. They will oversee and coordinate data collection within the team. About us Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce that is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organization we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion, and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work. Person Specification Experience Essential Leadership and working in partnership with other organisations/teams Supervising junior staff Training Managing a caseload Skills Essential Leadership and making changes/responding to legislation Assessment and Intervention - highly complex Reporting on data Knowledge Essential Dual diagnosis including autism Current MH legislations and challenges 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. Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Employer details Employer name Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Address Goodinge Health Centre 20 Goodinge Road, North Road, Market Estate London N7 9EW Employer's website

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