Overview
We have an opportunity to work as part of a small team providing a specialist service to people living with Dementia in a community setting within Telford and Wrekin.
Our service aims to provide support and advice to patients and their families on how to deal with communication and swallowing difficulties related to dementia. In addition, 25% of the role is dedicated to education of patients, families and staff. There is also the support of an assistant practitioner.
Main duties
The successful candidate will work as part of a small specialist team based in Telford providing a service to people living with dementia, their families and carers. You will provide assessment and management for a wide range of communication and swallowing disorders. One quarter of the post is dedicated to training both families and staff in a number of different settings.
Working for our organisation
The dementia team sit within the wider community SLT team which covers the county of Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin. We are a small but well established team who cover a range of clinical areas including all four community hospitals providing both a ward based and outpatient service, in reach to the local IDT teams and domiciliary teams. We also cover the specialist orthopaedic hospital and specialist Spinal Cord Injury unit. We provide a countywide voice service, which accepts referrals from numerous sources. We input into a joint ENT consultant clinic and carry out regular SLT led nasendoscopy clinics. Our acute colleagues deliver a video fluoroscopy clinic at both sites and we are in the process of re establishing a FEES service. We are strong advocates of regular clinical supervision, management supervision and actively seek to support the health and wellbeing of our colleagues. We have regular whole team meetings and CPD sessions.
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