Job summary
- Main area
- Offender Healthcare
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 277-6314619-BRIS
- Employer
- Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- HMP Bristol
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pa
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Operational Lead Speech & Language Therapist
Band 8a
Job overview
An exciting new challenge has arisen for highly skilled speech and language therapist (SALT) to join Oxleas NHS trust in our South West prisons. This is a brand-new service and we are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to lead on setting up a clinical model and pathway within our Bristol, South Gloucestershire & Wiltshire (BSGW), Devon, and Dorset clusters.
You will join our highly specialist multidisciplinary teams across 10 prisons and have line management responsibilities for 3 band 7 Speech and Language Therapists. These individuals will support your vision and integration into our established healthcare services. Each band 7 will be allocated a region for clinical need.
Your team will complement our multidisciplinary team and bridge the gap between existing learning disability (LD) provision and offender healthcare services providing leadership in assessments, consultation and co-working with complex clients with LD and autism who present a risk of harm to others. The service will also support service users with a complex mix of neurodevelopmental, speech, language, and communication, dysphagia, mental health, and intellectual disability needs who are high-risk, high-harm, high-vulnerability individuals.
This role can be based at any of our 10 sites within the South West (Bristol, Devon, Dorset & Wiltshire) and travel across all sites is required.
Main duties of the job
As the Operational Lead SALT you will provide professional leadership, supervision and a mentoring role for Speech & Language Therapists (SLTs) within Southwest prisons (team of 3 Band 7's). You will be responsible for the development of SLT services within the multidisciplinary team and to act as a key contributor in the development of the Specialist services within the Southwest prisons.
You will be an expert on issues pertaining to SLT and neurology and provide advice and training to all stake holders, be a key contributor to clinical audit and research and provide specialist input/advice into the strategic development of the service.
You will be responsible for the clinical activity of the SLTs working in the team under the supervision structure and assess, develop and implement highly specialist SLT treatment to ensure high standards of SLT within the services.
Your case load will primarily consist of adults with a neurological disorder and resultant physical and psychosocial problems: cognitive impairment, swallowing and language difficulties. However, there is a need for SALT treatments to the wider offender population so you and your team will deal with a vast, diverse caseload of patients.
Working for our organisation
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London.
Our healthcare departments operate across ten prisons in the South West, split in to three clusters. Each of which require a bespoke service responding to the prisoner and prison needs:
BSGW:
- HMP Ashfield – Cat C – Population = 412
- HMP Bristol – Cat B – Population = 638
- HMP Erlestoke – Cat C – Population = 494
- HMP Leyhill – Cat D (Open) – Population = 460
Devon:
- HMP Channings Wood – Cat C – Population = 731
- HMP Dartmoor – Cat C – Population = 659
- HMP Exeter – Cat B (Remand) – Population = 412
Dorset:
- HMP Guys Marsh – Cat C – Population = 550
- HMP Portland – Cat C – Population = 530
- HMP The Verne – Cat C – Population = 600
Our wider services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies.
A full job description and person specification is downloadable from the support documents section of this advert. Please read the full document prior to applying.
For any questions, please contact:
Cate Jameson - Regional Manager for Dorset: 07721628464/[email protected]
Peter Stevens - Interim Clinical Director, Head of Psychological Therapies, Clinical Lead: 07342 059948/[email protected]
IMPORTANT INFORMATION, PLEASE READ:
All applicants must be willing to undertake National Security Vetting in order to work in a Prison Setting. This will be completed as part of the pre-employment checks through Oxleas and the prison vetting team.
You will need to provide:
Proof of right to work documentation
Proof of ID, needs to include 1 photographic ID
Proof of address documentation
Non-UK passport holders will need to have correct documentation (right to work in the UK) and a Home office Share code.
Address History:
5 years address history will be needed.
Applicants that are not UK Passport holders who provide less than 5 years UK address history will need to provide a Police Certificate which must be in English from where they resided previously.
Applicants who are UK Passport holders who have lived abroad for a period of more than six months during the last three years will need to provide a certificate of good conduct or an overseas police check in English from the countries resided in or visited.
In order to assist you in obtaining a Police Certificate, guidance can be sought from:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/criminal-records-checks-for-overseas-applicants
If the country you have resided in is not listed here, you can obtain the necessary information by contacting the relevant Embassy or High Commission for that Country. Their contact details can be found on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office website (http://www.fco.gov.uk/en).
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to neurology, up to Master’s degree equivalent
- Evidence of post qualification dysphagia training
- Evidence of leadership and management skills obtained through experience
Desirable criteria
- Successful completion of leadership training
- MSc qualification in specialist area, or working towards one
- Member of relevant Special Interest Group
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post graduate experience which demonstrates the competencies to meet the role requirements outlined in the JD
- Appropriate level of experience working with client group
- Highly skilled in dysphagia management
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in secure settings
- Experience of appraising staff
- Experience of multi-disciplinary diagnostic assessment
Registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registered
- Member of Royal College of SALT
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cate Jameson
- Job title
- Regional Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07721628464
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