Senior SLT - Rotational Role in Teaching Hospital

IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST; Greater London; Sur place; GBP 36 000 - 46 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work

Résumé du poste

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking three Band 6 Senior Speech & Language Therapists to join the Adult SLT Service with rotations across Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals. You will work within multidisciplinary teams in a dynamic teaching environment, developing clinical skills and contributing to service development.

Rotations include Adult Acute at Charing Cross, Adult Acute at St Mary’s, and Head & Neck Cancer at Charing Cross, with potential for future moves.

Responsabilités

• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care.
• To undertake a comprehensive assessment and re-assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentation.
• To communicate effectively, using a range of verbal and non-verbal skills, with patients and carers/family to motivate, engage to participate in therapy and to ensure an understanding of their condition.
• To deal sensitively and constructively with patients and carers/family, who have high levels of anxiety frustration or aggression caused by a variety of issues, such as pain, poor prognosis or limited mobility.
• To plan and prioritise own caseload independently on a day-to-day basis to ensure patients are appropriately seen, in conjunction with the priorities of the team and to give assistance to other team members as required.
• To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your own work and current practice through the use of projects, audit or outcome measures, whether individually or with the support of senior staff.
• To critically appraise published research and use results to inform practice.
• To assist in the induction, daily supervision and delegation of tasks to band 5 speech and language therapists, therapy support workers, students and administrative staff, as required.

Description du poste

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking three Band 6 Senior Speech & Language Therapists to join the Adult SLT Service with rotations across Charing Cross and St Mary’s Hospitals. You will work within multidisciplinary teams in a dynamic teaching environment, developing clinical skills and contributing to service development.

Rotations include Adult Acute at Charing Cross, Adult Acute at St Mary’s, and Head & Neck Cancer at Charing Cross, with potential for future moves.