Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will independently manage and take responsibility for their own caseload and will:
1. ·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
·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
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
2. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
3. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
4. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
5. 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.
6. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
7. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
8. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
9. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
10. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
11. Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
12. Health Professions Council Licence to Practice
13. Completion of accredited postgraduate qualification in dysphagia or equivalent, demonstrating completion of competencies
Desirable criteria
14. Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
15. Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Network
16. Competencies achieved in Videofluoroscopy and FEES assessment of swallowing
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
17. Well established knowledge of specialist SLT assessment and therapy tools relevant to these client groups including VFS and FEES
18. Knowledge of the roles of other professionals involved in the relevant areas of patient care
19. Working knowledge of MS Office applications and use of the Internet for communication and information
Desirable criteria
20. Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the client group
21. Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance and quality measures
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
22. Significant clinical experience in Speech and Language Therapy, typically at least 2–3 years at Band 6 or equivalent level
23. Experience in assessment and management of complex communication and dysphagia in acute settings, elderly care, frailty and end of life care
24. Experience in clinical decisionmaking and managing complex caseloads in a fast-paced environment
Desirable criteria
25. Experience of the allocation of quality measures pertaining to SLT
26. Proven ability to supervise and support junior members of staff, assistants and students
27. Experience of the application of quality measures pertaining to SLT
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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