Job Description
In Sutton, there is much for us to be proud of both as a council and as a borough. This includes high levels of resident satisfaction, the quality of our services, our success in addressing our financial challenges to date, the way that we involve and engage with residents on key issues facing the borough, and the enthusiastic and motivated staff that we employ.
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This is a really exciting opportunity to contribute to our MDT for people with a learning disability.
About the Role
In the role you will work closely with Nurses, Psychologists, Physiotherapists, Occupational and Creative Therapists. You will also collaborate with family carers, Social Workers, Commissioners, the NHS and providers of residential care and supported living.
Reporting to the Clinical Health Team Manager you will be required to deliver the best outcomes for the health of adults with a learning disability, supporting the commitments set out in Sutton's Health and Social Care LD Strategy to help improve access to work, health, independence and social participation. You will work collaboratively deploying your specialism to support the work of the wider team. Within the team, Speech and Language Therapists are responsible for functional communication assessments and related interventions. They establish systems (e.g devises) to enable service users and their carers to communicate. They also provide general advice related to communication and record assessments, support plans and reviews on our database.
Sutton has embraced hybrid working and, although you will be required to work face to face with service users, there will also be ample opportunities to work remotely.
About You
You will:
- Be a qualified, registered SALT
- Have significant experience of working with people with a learning disability
Our Offer To You
As an organisation that values and nurtures talent, we're committed to helping you fulfil your potential and will offer you a supportive, friendly and collaborative environment to grow and develop your career and skills. We're constantly striving to improve our ways of working so putting your ideas across - however big or small - will be fully encouraged and supported by your colleagues and our dynamic and experienced management team.
In addition, we offer a modern and flexible working environment for our staff, supported by our IT infrastructure, including Google Chromebooks and Google Apps.
Employees have access to a wide range of benefits, some of which include:
Generous annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time working hours apply)
- Flexitime (Please note, this applies to roles at grades 1-9 only)
- Comprehensive learning and development programme
- Local and national discounts for shopping, eating out and leisure activities
- Interest free season ticket loans
- Local Government Pension Scheme
- Car parking scheme
- Bicycle loan facilities and cycle to work scheme
- Zip car scheme
- Free eye tests and contribution towards glasses
- Confidential wellbeing and counselling support
- Subsidised gym membership
We reserve the right to close this vacancy once a sufficient number of applications has been received. Please complete and submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.
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Closing date: 20 th March 2023
We pride ourselves on being a diverse, inclusive and welcoming Borough and we aim to create a workforce which reflects the community we serve. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds and particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic candidates and disabled candidates, as these groups are currently under-represented in our workforce. As part of our Disability Confident Committed status, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role.