Speech and Language Therapist

Job overview

Do you want to work with individuals in mental health crisis who have diagnosis of Autism then please read on…

Base; Wayside House; but will be required to travel across Coventry and Warwickshire

Full time/part time hours considered -To support young people at key times, some work may be required outside of usual office hours.

Job overview:

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Speech and Language Therapist to be part of our Autism Intensive Support Team for Coventry and Warwickshire.

If you are driven, passionate and to want to work with Autistic  adults who are in mental health crisis and are at risk of admission to hospital, then we want to hear from you.

The team is a specialist, multi-disciplinary team currently consisting of Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Nursing and Therapy Assistants and Assistant Psychologists.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job:

• Leading on service developments
• Clinical assessments
• Communication plans
• Specialist speech interventions
• Reviewing targets
• Risk assessments
• Autism informed interventions to reduce the risk of an admission due to mental health crisis
• Trauma informed practice
• Creating autism profiles as part of a MDT
• Providing individualised training to families and care providers

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a team we work systemically to understand and support the significant impact and challenges experienced by adults with autism who are in  mental health crisis, and their families.

In order to do this, we work with the network around the individual  (e.g. Adult Mental Health, Social Care, Education) and work closely with commissioners. As a speech and language therapist you will have experience of multi-disciplinary and multi-agency working as you will need to attend and chair regular MDT’s, CETR’s and EMDT’s.

As a Speech and Language Therapist you would visit individuals at their home / at school / in appropriate setting multiple times a week to engage them and carry out our assessments and interventions.

This is an exciting time to join our Team as we mature and expand and continue to look for innovative ways to support the families we work with. If you are passionate and motivated and are driven to prevent individuals  with autism and mental health needs from being admitted to hospital, then we want to hear from you.

For further details / informal visits contact:

Kami Basra on telephone: 02476 961397 Email [email protected]

We have drop in sessions over teams available in the next few weeks; if you are interested please email and we can book you into a slot.