Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute Medicine/MFOP
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Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Acute Medicine/MFOP
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The Buckinghamshire Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and dynamic therapist to join our acute SLT team. You will be joining a friendly SLT team working across Buckinghamshire, delivering high quality care.
This part time post offers the opportunity to work with acute SLT and MDT colleagues, providing swallowing and communication assessments and advice for patients admitted to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The post holder is integral to the SLT provision in the medicine for older people pathways, working with the MDT to assess patients and enhance patient flow. The post holder will support the ongoing care or patients throughout their inpatient admission, and offer outreach on discharge to ensure patients are optimally managed and reduce readmissions. The post holder will be involved in the provision of instrumental assessment via FEES and VF.
We can offer training and development from within our team and this post could be considered as a band 6/band 7 development opportunity for the right person. In this situation the post holder would be supported to complete competencies related to acute care, to progress from a band 6 to a band 7.
The postholder will independently manage and take responsibility for their own caseload and will:
* Use highly specialist clinical skills to manage an acute caseload of eating, drinking, swallowing and communication difficulties.
* Identify, assess, and diagnose swallowing and communication impairments and implement management programmes, or therapy, where appropriate.
* Provide expert guidance and information to colleagues, patients and carers.
* Work with the wider SLT team based at SMH to provide instrumental assessment, including Videofluoroscopy and FEES, as indicated in patient care.
* Support patients with cognitive and communication impairments to engage with care planning, advanced care planning and therapy goals
* To offer outreach phone calls and visits as needed to patients discharged from the MFOP wards to ensure the patient is optimised at discharge from hospital and to reduce risk of readmission
* Demonstrate leadership and support the development of SLT and HCP colleagues through joint working and training.
* Independently take students on placement.
* Take responsibility for implementing service wide developments as appropriate, based on data collection and audit and contribute to the operational delivery of acute services at Stoke Mandeville Hospital
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
* We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
* As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
* Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
* Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
* Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Justine Green Job title: Clinical Specialist SLT for Acute Care Email address: justine.green1@nhs.net Telephone number: 01296 838920
Alison Kelly
Head of Service Adult SLT
01494 323440
alisonkelly3@nhs.net
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