Developing Band 6 Speech And Language Therapist

Dorset Healthcare University Nhs Foundation Trust; Sherborne; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Speech and Language Therapist to join the Community Adult SLT service in a Specialist Practitioner role. You will provide home, clinic, and community hospital inpatient care and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to manage complex cases.

The post offers CPD opportunities, regular supervision, and a hybrid working pattern with some home and office-based work.

Qualifications

• Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level with specialist training or extensive experience
• Membership of the relevant Professional Body
• Learning and Assessing in Practice qualification or equivalent
• Evidence of recent professional development in an up-to-date portfolio

Responsibilities

• Work with individuals with neurological conditions presenting with complex communication and swallowing difficulties
• Collaborate with community SLTs to develop specialist skills
• Refer to videofluoroscopy clinic as appropriate
• Develop skills and knowledge of working with AAC
• Attend local SLT meetings with CPD focus
• Supervise Band 5 therapists and work with SLT assistants

Skills

Membership of Professional Body

Learning and Assessing in Practice

Recent professional development

Education

Degree or Diploma in Speech and Language Therapy

Post-registration specialist training / diploma

Tools

Electronic patient records systems

Job description

Job summary

Are you a newly qualified Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) looking for your first role, which will provide training and opportunity to grow into a clinical Band 6 role?

Are you an experienced Band 5 SLT looking to progress into a Band 6 role?

Are you a returner to practice, or an already established Speech and Language Therapist, looking to join a forward-thinking team?

Our Dorset Community Adult SLT service, based at Yeatman Hospital, Sherborne, has the opportunity for you!

As a Speech and Language Therapist Specialist Practitioner you will be responsible for providing a community clinical service. The service sees patients in their own home, in clinics and in Community Hospital inpatient settings. You will be expected to work collaboratively with other team members to manage the locality caseload as needed. You will be highly motivated and forward thinking.

In return, we welcome ideas of change that could contribute to creating a better service for people living with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties. We offer CPD opportunities, regular supervision and peer supervision.

The Specialist Speech and Language Therapist role is a part-time role of 26.25 hours a week. Our service embraces flexible working and we support a hybrid model of working both from home and in office.

Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.

Main duties of the job

• Work with individuals with a wide range of neurological conditions who present with complex communication and swallowing difficulties
• Work closely with experienced speech and language therapists in the community setting to develop specialist skills.
• Refer to and attend videofluoroscopy clinic as appropriate.
• Develop skills and knowledge of working with patients with AAC.
• Attend regular local speech and language therapy meetings with a strong bias to CPD.
• Opportunity to supervise band 5 therapists, to work with SLT assistants and also to work with therapists from the other community SLT Teams.

Employment in this post requires an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, which the Trust will cover the cost of.

About us

At Dorset HealthCare we're on a mission to empower people to make the most of their lives through our outstanding, joined-up healthcare services. We're a dynamic, forward-looking Trust, running 12 community hospitals, specialist inpatient facilities and a wide range of integrated community and mental health services for a population of almost 800,000 people.

We do things differently here - it's one of the reasons the CQC rated us 'outstanding' in 2019. It's also why 95% of patients across our services say they have a good or very good experience of our services and 89% of staff feel they can really make a difference. Whether you're looking to work with us in one of our bustling market towns, vibrant urban locations, thriving seaside spots, or among the rolling hills of Dorset, there are lots of ways you can make a difference in our communities.

Our 7,000-strong workforce is at the heart of what we do and our success is a testament to our brilliant people. We're all about building a workplace for the future, we believe in equal opportunities and we celebrate diversity. We're an inclusive workplace, where everyone is welcome, everyone can be authentic, and we are all encouraged to be the best version of ourselves.

Working with us you'll be part of a strong team, challenge yourself, build a career, and teach us what we don't know. And you'll be working towards our vision to be better every day through excellence, compassion and expertise in all we do.

Job responsibilities

For the main duties and responsibilities for this role please read the attached job description and person specification. When completing your application please ensure your supporting statement reflects the criteria set out in these documents by showing how your experience and skills apply to this post.We understand that AI can be a useful tool when completing your application. However, we are seeing an increasing over-reliance of AI tools, which can negatively affect your application as it reduces a candidates individuality, and makes it difficult for us to gain a clear and authentic understanding of your experience, skills, and in turn your suitability for the role.All submissions must be truthful and if you do use AI, it should only be used to enhance your application and not create your supporting statement in its entirety. Your supporting statement should be in your own words and must accurately reflect your personal experience and achievements. Where we have concerns that AI has been used to generate content that misrepresents your experience and suitability for the role, we may withdraw your application.As part of our vision to have a skilled, diverse and caring workforce, Dorset HealthCare offers support for people getting into work. We offer an employability service to support individuals with application writing, interview skills and other employment support. If you would like or know of anyone who would value this support, please do contact [e-mail]

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND TRAINING

Essential

• Registered practitioner to degree/diploma level supplemented by post registration diploma level specialist training and/or short courses or demonstrable extensive experience in the relevant specialty
• Membership of the relevant Professional Body
• Learning and Assessing in Practice Qualification or equivalent practice assessors training
• Evidence of recent professional development in an up to date portfolio

Desirable

• Knowledge and understanding of Trust Strategy relevant to role

JOB SPECIFIC EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Experience at Practitioner Band 5 level
• Experience of specialist working
• Experience of managing change
• Demonstrable knowledge of assessment and therapeutic interventions in area of specialism
• Experience of developing specialist programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing highly specialist advice
• Able to demonstrate specialist clinical reasoning skills to assimilate information in order to make a clinical judgement regarding diagnosis and intervention.
• Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively

Desirable

• Recent previous experience within a comparable role

PERSONAL QUALITIES/ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
• Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of highly complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
• Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities.
• Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required.
• Experience of planning and organising complex activities, e.g. organise own time and that of junior staff and learners, planning off duty rotas and undertaking discharge planning involving co-ordination with other agencies.
• Ability to use own initiative within sphere of authority
• Demonstrable ability of using tact and diplomacy
• Demonstrable ability to analyse situations and provide a resolution
• Knowledge and understanding of legislation relevant to practice
• Ability to evaluate care leading to improvement in quality standards an service improvement
• Demonstrable leadership qualities and the ability to perform as a role model
• Willingness to advance own clinical knowledge, skill and competence based on current evidence

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY/RESOURCES

Essential

• Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems

BUSINESS TRAVEL

Essential

• Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business. - Level 1/2

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

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.