Senior Speech and Language Therapist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust seeks a Band 6 Speech & Language Therapist to join the adult acute team at St Mary's Hospital. This role involves managing a caseload of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties, working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams, and contributing to service development and training. The position offers numerous learning opportunities and career development within a prestigious NHS Trust.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Flexible working arrangements

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Membership options for onsite leisure facilities

Qualifications

• Degree in Speech and Language Therapy.
• Current HCPC registration.
• Experience with adults with communication and swallowing disorders.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of adults with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties.
• Provide specialist assessment and treatment for patients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams for integrated patient care.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Communication skills

Teamwork

Time management

Teaching skills

Education

Degree accredited by Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists

Current HCPC registration

Tools

Basic computer skills (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint)

Job description

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Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary's, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

Are you looking for the chance to develop your career in a prestigious London Trust with access to highly skilled clinicians and multiple learning opportunities? If so, then we'd like to hear from you.

We are looking for a Band 6 Speech & Language Therapist (SLT) to join our adult acute team at St Mary's Hospital (SMH) on a Fixed Term Contract. The post holder will be expected to work flexibly across the entire admission and inpatient pathway including: emergency department (ED), acute medical unit (AMU), and speciality ward areas including respiratory, medicine for the elderly, general medicine, major trauma, neurosurgery and vascular surgery. Service cover for Critical Care may also be required, depending on the service needs and the skills and experience of the successful applicant.
You will contribute to multidisciplinary working, further developing your clinical skills and participating in service development and training others. Staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in CPD activities and audit and research.

We hold weekly videofluoroscopy clinics and provide a FEES service. You will be supported in the development of your skills in these areas in line with your learning needs.

Main duties of the job

• To independently manage a caseload of adults with acquired communication and/or swallowing difficulties of neurological/medical/surgical origin, demonstrating specialist knowledge and skill underpinned by current evidence-based practice.
• To provide specialist assessment and treatment for patients with adult acquired communication and swallowing problems.
• To support the provision of instrumental assessments on site as clinically appropriate and as required by the service, including identifying appropriate patients, under-taking joint assessments, analysis, reporting and feedback.
• To work in collaboration with other members of the MDT to provide an integrated service for patients, participating in joint clinics, ward rounds, multi-disciplinary assessment/treatment, family/ carer support and education, attending regular meetings and case conferences as appropriate.
• To participate in quality improvement, clinical governance projects, audit and research as required by the Clinical Service Lead for Adult Speech & Language Therapy.
• To support the training and development of speech and language therapy students on placement and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, as required.

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree accredited by Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
• Current HCPC registration as a speech & language therapist
• Professional portfolio demonstrating experience and achievements

Desirable criteria

• Registration with RCSLT

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working at post-graduate level with adults with acquired communication and swallowing disorders.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of delivering training programmes to multidisciplinary colleagues.
• Experience of participation in clinical governance activities.

Desirable criteria

• Experience of videofluoroscopy (including writing reports)
• Experience of FEES (assessor or endoscopist)
• Experience of working with patients with Tracheostomy
• Experience of supervising junior staff or students on placement

Skills/knowledge/ abilities

Essential criteria

• Specialist level of clinical skills and knowledge relevant to the management of adults with swallowing and communication disorders in the acute hospital setting; underpinned by current models of best practice.
• Ability to use specialist knowledge to make appropriate independent clinical decisions, with access to a supervisor, reflecting on practice and demonstrating evidence based practice.
• Ability to negotiate with client/carer and medical/AHP teams around individual case management, prioritisation and clinical risk management
• Able to work effectively on own initiative and within a team, contributing to team goals and initiatives as required.
• Ability to seek guidance when faced with a situation beyond clinical experience
• Good organisation and time management skills
• Effective teaching/training skills, including knowledge of learning styles to support unqualified and qualified SLT and MDT staff as required.
• Competent in basic computer skills and common programmes i.e. Word, Outlook, internet searches, Excel, Powerpoint
• Able to manage the emotional consequences of working with distressing conditions and emotionally demanding patients/carers
• Ability to manage own caseload and workload independently on a daily basis, generating appropriate strategies for caseload management and seeking support from senior colleagues if/ when required.
• Ability to educate, empathise, support, negotiate and motivate even when co-operation is not guaranteed.
• Able to maintain intense concentration in all aspects of patient management

Please ensure you check your emails regularly as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process. If you are shortlisted you will be contacted by email and text message (if you provide a mobile contact number).

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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