Job Summary
To provide agreed support to adults with intellectual disabilities, their families, carers and the multi-disciplinary team. Specifically, this will relate to the communication needs of an individual, and subsequent environmental needs. Support may be for individuals, environments or providers and is under the direction of qualified Speech and Language Therapists but often delivered without direct supervision, across different multi-agency day and residential settings.
Main duties of the job
The role will help support the delivery of an efficient and effective Speech and Language Therapy Service to ensure that individual’s with mental health conditions and associated communication and swallowing needs receive the best possible outcomes in relation to their care, treatment and recovery. The SLT service involves providing individual assessment, intervention, advice, training, and a consultative approach and the post-holder will support the qualified SLT to deliver this service. Well-developed IT skills are essential for this post to support production of accessible information and resources. The post holder needs excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to work confidently and flexibly with service users, families and support staff within a fast-paced inpatient environment
Person Specification
contractual
Essential
- Car driver with ability to travel across different sites within the Nottinghamshire area
Knowledge and experience
Essential
- Experience/familiarity with/ of using a range of communication tools
- IT skills/experience developed to a standard in order to produce Communication tools independently
- Demonstration of, commitment to and ability to work as a team member
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Ability to work flexibly and independently
- Well organised
Desirable
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of working with people with learning disabilities and/or autistic people
- Experience of co/delivering training to staff teams
- Competence with relevant IT and graphics software used to produce visual communication resources (e.g. Symbol Software)
- Competence with communication approaches such as developing easy read information, Social Stories and decision-making tools such as ‘Talking Mats’.
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education to GCSE level or equivalent including English and Maths
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 01 December 2025
