Job overview
Are you ready for change and to develop as a Critical Care SLT?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join BHRUT SLT Team as a Band 7 to continue developing and lead our Critical Care services across both our sites (Queen’s Hospital/King George Hospital).
This role covers 4 ITU units alongside the MDT working with lots of different specialities. We also run an ITU step down service on our acute wards to improve the patient experience and ensure continuity of care. We are also incredibly proud to have recently established a Phagenyx (pharyngeal electrical stimulation) service for suitable patients presenting with profound neurogenic dysphagia.
You should have extensive experience managing acquired swallowing and communication difficulties within acute and ITU settings. VFSS competencies and basic trache competencies are essential. FEES competencies are desirable however we can provide in house training on FEES and vented traches if needed.
You will lead on representing SLT at weekly MDT meetings, Quality and Safety meetings, tracheostomy ward rounds and much more. You will also be involved in our 6 VFSS slots and FEES clinics 3 days per week.
Our SLT Team is ever growing and very supportive. We provide ample CPD, training opportunities and peer support. Service development, audit and quality improvement is actively encouraged throughout the team.
Main duties of the job
To provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients who present with a wide range of complex swallowing and communication difficulties secondary to critical care admissions; including management of patients with tracheostomies.
To support providing highly specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within acute inpatient areas including acute medicine, surgical and respiratory patients as required
To work alongside other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to on matters relating to your specialist area.
Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Lead) in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the Speech and Language Therapy service provided to patients within your area; this may be cross-site.
To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Speech and Language Therapists, Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.
To contribute to running and developing of the Speech and Language service through audit, development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practise.
Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Clinical Lead SLT.
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and betterand ourimprovements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with.
They are benefitting from a new (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been by the Care Quality Commission.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to and get rid of corridor care.
We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the.
We run a in Ilford; an in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at and at. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited. We’re proud to be a employer.
Some of the positive changes we’ve made are captured in .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
2. H.C.P.C. Registration
Desirable criteria
3. Leadership training
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
4. Tracheostomy (non-vented) competencies.
5. Videofluoroscopy competencies.
Desirable criteria
6. FEES competencies
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
7. Leadership and strong MDT working experience within Critical Care setting
Desirable criteria
8. Experience in leading clinical audit, quality improvement projects and service development
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.