Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Head and Neck Cancer

Royal Berkshire; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (Head and Neck) to join the H&N SLT team at Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. The post covers inpatient and outpatient settings, including MDT clinics, with the team’s supervision and support responsibilities.

The role focuses on assessment, therapy and management plans across the service, contributing to training and development in a fast-paced acute environment.

Qualifications

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent licence to practice.
• Registered member of RCSLT
• Registered member of HCPC
• Evidence of CPD portfolio and post-graduate competencies in dysphagia and FEES/Videofluoroscopy

Responsibilities

• Contributing to the H&N caseload with assessment, therapy and management plans across inpatients and outpatients.
• Working as part of an MDT and providing supervision to team members.
• Contributing to training for MDT and other stakeholders.

Skills

MDT working

Clinical governance

Record keeping

Training delivery

Education

SLT degree

RCSLT registered

HCPC registered

Job description

Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Head and Neck Cancer

Band 6 Specialist Speech and Language Therapist (SLT) - Head and Neck Cancers (H&N)We are excited to advertise this Band 6 full-time post at the Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust (RBFT).

This post is split across two clinical areas - the post holder will be a key member of the H&N SLT team, providing input to inpatients and outpatients, in a variety of settings, whilst also contributing to the wider SLT service at the Royal Berkshire Hospital.You will be joining a team of 22 people, comprising of SLTs, SLT assistants, an SLT apprentice and an administrator.

Main duties of the job

This post is based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. The post holder will be participating in:

• Contributing to the H&N caseload, providing assessment, therapy and management plans to service users and their families. This will be across inpatient and outpatients, with outpatients being individual SLT clinics, as well as H&N and radiotherapy MDT clinics.
• Working as part of a team.
• Providing supervision and support to other members of the team, where appropriate.
• Contributing to training for other members of the MDT, in relevant areas.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital foundation trusts in the country, and currently touch the lives of half a million patients in the west of Berkshire every year by providing high quality acute medical and surgical services for our local communities.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford, and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work, and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our "CARE" values:Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent,reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

Person Specification

Education

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent licence to practice
• Registered member of RCSLT
• Registered member of HCPC

CPD

• Evidence of formal competencies to allow independent management of complex dysphagia, such as the RCSLT competency framework
• Evidence of successful post-graduate study through CPD portfolio
• Evidence of competencies in laryngectomy management
• Evidence of competencies in tracheostomy management
• Evidence of competencies in FEES or Videofluoroscopy

Previous Experience

• At least two years post graduate experience, relevant to this post
• Experience of MDT working
• Changing own practice in response to evidence
• experience of working with a H&N caseload post qualification
• Developing and delivery training packages to other disciplines, carers and service users
• Experience of working in an acute and outpatient, fast paced and flexible environment

Skills

• Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist area
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping
• Awareness of other relevant policies including Vulnerable adult/other relevant legal frameworks.
• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit including RCSLT clinical guidelines

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.

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