Job overview

Are you looking for a rewarding challenge to give your career a boost....then we have just the job for you! why not consider joining our passionate, innovative and supportive SLT Team in the Nottinghamshire Low Secure Community Forensic Care Unit.  If this opportunity is calling out to you then please consider contacting us to discuss this post further. 

The successful candidate will join the well-established and respected Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Service within Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, working specifically within the Low Secure Hospital and Community Forensic Teams across Nottingham city and county. 

You will be well supported by an experienced and diverse group of colleagues across Notts Health Care, with opportunities for peer support. You will enjoy close links with our wider SLT team and our SLT colleagues within the East Midlands. Staff benefit from great CPD opportunities annually, both in house and externally funded. We also have strong connections with the national Criminal Justice SLT network. 

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide professional, clinical and operational leadership to a small SLT team across the Low Secure Community Forensics Care Group working at the Wells Rd Centre. The role involves supporting the services to deliver timely, safe, quality care to a complex mental health population residing in inpatient wards and accessing community forensic services.

This is an oversight of the core duties:

• To deliver professional supervision, reflective practice and guidance to the LSCF workforce (both the SLT staff and wider workforce)
• To provide second opinions and  complex case consultations to referrals (as required and appropriate)
• To represent the profession and forums as required and appropriate - including risk and quality meetings etc 
• To provide clinical and operational leadership to the SLT workforce.
• To monitor the SLT teams performance in terms of compliance with Trust standards, contact figures, quality care, complaint and complement monitoring etc 

Working for our organisation

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.