Job overview

The post is an integral part of the North Community Learning Disability Team but also has citywide responsibilities shared with  the other  Speech and Language Locality 

The post is  part of a multidisciplinary health  Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT)  integrated with Adult Social care  providing  high quality specialist speech and language therapy service to adults with significant learning disabilities

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Main duties of the job

·       To work as part of a multidisciplinary health and social care Community Learning Disability Team (CLDT) to provide a high quality specialist speech and language therapy service to adults with significant learning disabilities  To carry a caseload as a member of a multi-disciplinary team

·       To act as an autonomous practitioner with specialist knowledge, skills and experience, to assess, diagnose and manage clients’ communication and dysphagia needs within your specialist team.

·       To work as part of a city wide speech and language therapy service to benefit clients.

·       To provide highly specialist advice, education and training to increase the capacity and capability of others to work with people with a learning disability

·       Work will be undertaken in a variety of settings depending on the needs of the clients and carers. The client base will be socially, culturally and linguistically diverse.

·       To develop Speech and Language Therapy provision within the service with support from Professional Lead Speech and Language Therapist

·       To undertake supervision and leadership of junior staff and students as required

·       To offer clinical support to other SLTs in more than one of the sub specialisms within the field of ALD.

·       To act as the speech and language therapy lead for the locality.

·       To deputise for the Professional Lead Speech and Language Therapist and Health Manager  as necessary

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.