Bank B6 Specialist Speech and Language therapist -Herts

Central London Community NHS; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

An established community healthcare provider seeks a dedicated Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join their dynamic team. This role involves assessing and treating patients with complex communication needs, primarily in their homes and various community settings. You'll collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team, enhancing patient care through effective communication and tailored therapy interventions. The organization values inclusivity and professional development, offering flexible working options and comprehensive support. If you're passionate about making a difference in community health, this is a fantastic opportunity to advance your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Comprehensive induction

Training and development support

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree or equivalent required.
• License to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists essential.

Responsibilities

• Assess and treat patients with complex communication difficulties.
• Supervise rehabilitation assistants and therapy students.
• Work collaboratively with multi-professional teams.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Knowledge of stroke and neurological conditions

Ability to transcribe speech phonetically

Experience with dysphagia

Education

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree

License to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists

Job description

Bank B6 Specialist Speech and Language therapist -Herts

• Central London Community NHS
• UK
• Contract
• Expired
• 20.06

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Salary£20.06 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday paySalary periodHourlyClosing28/03/2025 23:59

Employer heading

Band 6

Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.

We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.

At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.

Job overview

8-5 Monday-Friday- Flexibility within

T o work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promoting best practice and undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.

· To build up and maintain key relationships with referrers including GPs, acute providers, Bedded Services, District Nurses, Wheelchair Services and other services across CLCH to facilitate appropriate referrals.

· To be responsible for the supervision of rehabilitation assistants and speech and language therapy students.

· To work mainly in the patients’ homes but also in a variety of settings including clinics, residential care homes, continuing care homes and community centers, it may entail individual and group therapy interventions.

· To support personal and professional development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.

Main duties of the job

· To communicate information related to complex conditions from assessment through treatment and discharge to clients, carers and families.

· To demonstrate excellent communication skills to communicate with and support the communication of patients who have complex and varied communication difficulties as a result of their neurological event.

· To motivate and facilitate informed consent through advanced communication skills –and to be able to gain co-operation for treatment where there may be significant barriers to understanding such as aphasia.

· To demonstrate skill in managing conflict across a range of situations in a verbal, written, formal and informal manner.

· To work with other members of the multi-professional team to run therapy groups on an as-needed basis.

· To develop, update and present SLT therapy-specific patient and carer education presentations to clients and carers.

Working for our organisation

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role

Flexible working options

Training, support and development in your career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

· To undertake multidisciplinary neurological assessments, to be able to identify the needs of the clients and to work closely with the MDT on joint goals. These clients will present with a variety of complex neurological conditions, but with an emphasis on those recovering from stroke.

· To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings

· To carry out specialist neuro-physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating and swallowing

· To monitor all aspects of the interaction of significant others with clients. In particular to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication

· To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to clients and their families within clearly defined care plans and based on SMART goals agreed with clients and their families.

Person specification

Education/Qualification

Essential criteria

Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent

License to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.

Evidence of registration with the HCPC

Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to speech/language/communication issues for adults

Desirable criteria

Counselling skills training

Other appropriate courses relevant to the case-load

Experience

Essential criteria

Appropriate experience of working with an adult case-load, including work with broad range of acquired neurological conditions including complex dysphagia

Experience of working with adults requiring home enteral tube feeding

Experience of working with relatives and carers.

Experience in supervision of junior staff/support workers

Desirable criteria

Team work, in a multidisciplinary context.

Experience in supervision of junior staff/support workers

Experience of provision of training packages

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Knowledge of stroke and neurological and degenerative illnesses and their management, national policies and procedures.

Knowledge of current National and local policies related to area of work

Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written. Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically

Desirable criteria

Membership of relevant Special Interest Group

Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification

Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.

Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.

At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.

We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:

Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)

Race Equality Network

Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.

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"We work Flexibly"

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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.