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Are you looking for a unique and exciting career development opportunity? Do you want to develop your clinical skills in a specialist area and help drive service change? Do you want to be an integral part of a friendly, forward thinking and supportive team? If so, Cardiff and Vale (C&V) Mental Health Services for Older People (MHSOP) have the perfect job for you! 

As an enthusiastic and motivated SLT with a passion for dementia care, you will be joining our friendly Mental Health SLT Team who will support you in your new role via the regular supervision, appraisal and peer support frameworks. There will be ongoing service development projects which you will have the opportunity to participate in as well the opportunity to be involved in exciting research.

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You will be working with clients across the adult age range including the well-established Young Onset Dementia (YOD) multidisciplinary team at the Cariad Centre, Barry Hospital. Your caseload will be varied and interesting as your clients will present with a wide range of dementia subtypes, and other mental health diagnoses. In this role you will be providing comprehensive swallowing and communication assessments, and holistic management to clients in the community. You will also have the opportunity to develop your inpatient and outpatient experience, which will include time with our inpatient MHSOP wards and the Memory Assessment Service. We aim to provide the highest level of care and achieve a great level of client/carer satisfaction and you will be integral to this.

You will also have the exciting opportunity to be part of developing and delivering a new SLT training and education programme to staff and to formal and informal carers of clients within the MHSOP services. You will have the opportunity to bring an innovative approach to training alongside SLT colleagues knowing you are contributing to improving patient care.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

This post Band 6 and is part time (0.6WTE), and experienced Band 5 therapists may be considered for the right candidate.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Bwrdd Iechyd Prifysgol Caerdydd a’r Fro yw un o’r Byrddau Iechyd Integredig mwyaf yn y DU, yn cyflogi dros 15,000 o staff ac yn darparu dros 100 o wasanaethau arbenigol. Mae gennym amrywiaeth o yrfaoedd i’w cynnig ar draws 6 safle ysbyty. Gan wasanaethu tua 500,000 o bobl sy’n byw yng Nghaerdydd a’r Fro, ein ffocws yw anghenion iechyd a gofal ein poblogaeth leol a gwaith partneriaeth i ddatblygu gwasanaethau rhanbarthol.

Ein cenhadaeth yw “Gofalu am Bobl, Cadw Pobl yn Iach”, a’n gweledigaeth yw y dylai siawns pob unigolyn o fyw bywyd iach fod yn gyfartal. Fel sefydliad rydym yn ddiedifar uchelgeisiol dros iechyd ein poblogaeth, gan ymateb i heriau heddiw ac yfory drwy ein strategaeth 10 mlynedd, Llunio ein Llesiant i’r Dyfodol. Rydym yn cyfrannu at Gymru iachach, gyda phwyslais mawr ar arloesi a gwella, gan ddysgu oddi wrth eraill ledled y byd ac arwain y ffordd mewn ymchwil glinigol. Mae gwaith partneriaeth yn gadarn yng Nghaerdydd a’r Fro, ac rydym yn gweithio’n agos gyda’n staff a’n cymuned.

Mae Caerdydd, prifddinas ffyniannus Cymru, yn ddinas wych i fyw a gweithio ynddi sy’n cynnig llwyth o atyniadau chwaraeon, celfyddydau a diwylliannol. Wedi’i leoli i’r gorllewin o Gaerdydd, mae Bro Morgannwg yn cynnig cyfuniad o gefn gwlad hardd Cymru ac arfordir naturiol dramatig. P’un ai’n fywyd dinesig neu’n fywyd gwledig, mae Caerdydd a’r Fro yn cynnig y gorau o’r ddau fyd.