Job summary
Due to promotion within the service, we are hiring! Are you a motivated and competent SLT with a passion for excellence in patient care? Are you ready for the next step in your career? In that case we want to hear from you! We are seeking a dynamic band 6 to join our acute hospital team, providing high quality patient care to patients with communication and swallowing difficulties.
As part of our supportive multidisciplinary team you will deliver specialist assessment, diagnosis and therapy to patients with a range of acquired communication and swallowing disorders in the acute setting. You will work closely with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues across respiratory, critical care and general medical wards.
We are currently integrating with the community SLT service and this will provide exciting opportunities to work across the pathway to develop seamless care, with the patient at the centre.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist SLT input to acute inpatients at Worcester Royal Hospital and the Alexandra Hospital, Redditch, working flexibly to ensure adequate cover on both sites. The post will primarily focus on dysphagia assessment and management but skills in communication difficulties are also required.
About us
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Being open and honest
Ensuring people feel cared for
Showing respect to everyone
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job responsibilities
* To assess, develop and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Treatment
* To write reports reflecting specialist knowledge
* To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes
* To provide advice to others regarding the management and care of patients/clients with communication, voice and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties
* To ensure that patients are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible
* To demonstrate negotiation skills
* To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures
* To adapt practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences
* To demonstrate skills in dealing with complex issues to generate appropriate strategies for caseload management
Person Specification
Experience
Essential:
* Experience of working in relevant specialty fields which will have led to: the acquisition of sound and well-established theoretical and practical specialist knowledge.
* Successful experience of working and learning in multi-professional teams.
* Experience of working with complex conditions with an appropriate level of autonomy.
Desirable:
* Experience of working in an acute hospital
Qualifications
Essential:
* Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent.
* Membership of RCSLT
* Registration with HCPC
* Working independently with communication and dysphagia patients
* An awareness of when to refer for FEES and Videofluoroscopy
* Relevant post-graduate courses/conferences
* Membership of relevant CENs
* Computer literate
Desirable:
* FEES training
* Tracheostomy training
* Videofluoroscopy training
Knowledge and Skills
Essential:
* Substantial theoretical knowledge of acquired communication, voice and swallowing disorders.
* Excellent communication skills, for example be able to use skills of persuasion, motivation, negotiation and problem solving with patients, colleagues in the department, MDT, medical team and other professionals on a daily basis.
* Teaching, presentation and mentoring skills
* Awareness of the appropriate use of counselling skills.
* Able to analyse complex and highly sensitive information regarding a patients diagnosis. To be able to communicate this information to patients, relatives and colleagues.
* Ability to overcome non-compliance of professional colleagues.
* Ability to overcome non-compliance of patients and relatives.
* Effective communication skills with people who have significant and complex communication difficulties i.e. to convey and receive accurate information with patients with aphasia and/or severe psychological distress.
* Well-developed perceptual and auditory skills, e.g. when listening to disordered voice or resonance.
* Excellent interpersonal skills and team-working skills.
* Excellent time management skills.
* Ability to absorb, interpret and summarise verbal information in a pressurised clinical environment.
* Ability to be systematic and organised.
* Ability to drive with access to a vehicle
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
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