We are a very friendly Speech & Language Therapy team who seek to enable all staff to progress to their maximum potential, and to support their colleagues to do the same. The main responsibilities of the Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist are:
1. To develop skills with an adult acute caseload in communication and dysphagia assessment and management.
2. To develop all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
3. To attend clinical supervision in the form of regular face-to-face meetings with your supervisor, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and team case discussions.
4. To provide supervision and education of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and Speech and Language Therapy students.
5. To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team's clinical practice.
6. To participate in clinical audit, protocol development, objective-setting, etc., as required by the development of the SALT team.
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well-being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate, and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation, we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
The Speech & Language Therapy team at Southend Hospital has a long history of developing Band 5 therapists to be confident, effective, and skilled practitioners. We would like to offer you the opportunity to share in this history and develop skills learned in university and placements/first posts to complete your NQT competencies. This includes proactive training and supervision in dysphagia management, and as your confidence and skillset increase, we actively support exposure to FEES and have plans for videofluoroscopy observation. With a strong ethos in evidence-based practice and supportive patient intervention, the team works across acute and stroke wards to provide excellent patient intervention and therapy within the acute phase of their illness. We foster good links with our community colleagues to ensure seamless care for patients who may need continuing care post-discharge. The team is friendly and caring of each other as well as the patients, and we welcome fresh ideas and are proactive in looking at new assessment/treatment options as research grows within the speech & language therapy community as a whole.
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