Speech and Language Therapist

The post holder will be an invaluable member of the Learning Disability Intensive Support Service (LDISS) working with service users throughout Gloucestershire and working into our small inpatient service in Stroud. The purpose of this role is to:

• Provide a specialist speech and language therapy service to adults and children with learning disabilities referred to LDISS. 

• To provide specialist speech & language therapy in our small learning disability inpatient service based at Berkeley House in Stroud, supporting both those residing in Berkeley House and offering outreach support into the community.

    Provide specialist communication assessment and implementation of evidence-based interventions to individuals who are referred to LDISS or Berkeley House.

• The ability to provide eating and drinking assessments and interventions to individual service users would be desirable but not essential.

 Optimise the 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.

      Be a mentor for SaLT students under the remit of the profession.

Identify, assess eligibility for, provide and support in the implementation of alternative/augmentative communication aids, including visual resources and high/low tech devices.