Overview

The post holder will be an invaluable member of the Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS) working with service users throughout Gloucestershire and in the small inpatient service at Berkeley House in Stroud. The purpose of this role is to provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities referred to LDISS, to work as a key member of a specialist multidisciplinary service, to provide eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users (desirable but not essential), and to optimise service users’ ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment. The role also includes facilitating appropriate discharge from hospital and responding to agencies requiring assessment of service users who are being considered for hospital admission. As part of LDISS intervention support, contribute to the development and implementation of the PBS (positive behaviour support) plan and identify, assess eligibility for, provide and support in the implementation of alternative/augmentative communication aids, including visual resources and high/low tech devices.

Responsibilities

Provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities referred to LDISS.Provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy service to the LDISS inpatient service based at Berkeley House in Stroud.Work as a key member of a specialist multidisciplinary service.Provide eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users (desirable but not essential).Optimise service users’ ability to remain in the community and/or be cared for in the least restrictive environment.Facilitate appropriate discharge from hospital and respond to agencies requiring assessment of service users who are being considered for hospital admission.As part of LDISS intervention support, develop and implement the PBS positive behaviour support plan.Identify, assess eligibility for, provide and support in the implementation of alternative/augmentative communication aids, including visual resources and high/low tech devices.

Requirements / Qualifications

Are you an established Band 7 therapist or a Band 6 therapist looking for the next step and an opportunity to develop your skills working with a small caseload of children and adults with a learning disability?We welcome motivated and enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapists to join LDISS, a nationally recognised service providing support in the community to people with a learning disability who cannot be supported in mainstream services, with the aim of keeping people at home and avoiding unnecessary hospital admissions.

About the Trust

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust. Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide opportunities to share experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, ranking us 1st in the South West region.81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a strong response rate indicating good staff engagement. We continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

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