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Salary- We can also offer this post as a developmental band 5, rising to band 6 after relevant competencies met*
- Job Share to be considered*
To promote and enable service user and carer involvement choice in intervention options.
To understand a clients’ learning capacity and to approach gaining informed consent in ways which demonstrate good practice and conform to Trust consent policies. To ensure that consent is approached within the legal framework for clients who may be deemed to lack capacity to consent to treatment.
To undertake team case coordinator role. This involves coordinating the care provided by the multidisciplinary team, organising and chairing meetings and updating clinical plans.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of clients referred using investigative and analytic skills, to formulate an individualised management and treatment programme based on advanced clinical reasoning.
To evaluate effectiveness of interventions using agreed outcome measures.
Sussex Partnership NHS Trust is working towards equality and has policies relating to the equality of opportunity in employment and service delivery.
This is a specialist Speech & Language Therapy post in the Community Team for People with a Learning Disability suited to a Speech & Language Therapist with a minimum of 2 years postgraduate Speech & Language Therapy experience. The Speech & Language Therapist will be based within the East Sussex CTPLD and will hold responsibility for managing a caseload in East Sussex. The clinical role will be to provide Speech & Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to clients referred to the service using established models of Speech & Language Therapy ensuring practice is evidence based. The postholder will work as a core member of the CTPLD.
