Responsibilities
* Deliver a specialist SLT service for dysphagia and communication needs.
* Work with clients presenting with complex and diverse mental health conditions, including behaviours that challenge.
* Provide dysphagia assessment, advice, and intervention to reduce clinical risks and support safe oral intake.
* Offer communication assessments and interventions tailored to individual needs.
* Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to support holistic care.
* Contribute to staff training and service development initiatives.
* Assess, diagnose and manage the communication and/or swallowing needs of patients referred to the service in inpatient settings. Responsible for autonomous initial patient diagnosis and assessment:
* Collection of detailed case history information
* Specialist informal assessment and observation
* Uses formal standardised assessment procedures
* Evaluates intervention plans using outcome measures and revises plans as necessary
* Contributes to, reads and abides by risk assessments relating to patients of the service.
* To carry out and support with mental capacity assessments.
* Communicates assessment and therapeutic findings within the multi-disciplinary team.
* Completes contemporaneous case notes and written clinical information completion according to Trust procedures.
* Undertakes specialist clinical work with individuals and groups of patients with guidance for the most complex cases from senior SLT.
* Makes decisions leading to SLT review or discharge of patients and/or referral to other services, as appropriate.
* Is responsible for managing own clinical caseload.
* To undertake any other duties of a similar nature consistent with the responsibilities of this post in order to provide a quality Speech and Language Therapy service.
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