Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

River Alliance of Wisconsin; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic and innovative Speech and Language Therapy Team at a leading healthcare provider in Liverpool! This exciting Band 6 role offers the chance to work with a diverse range of patients, including those with complex conditions like dementia and Parkinson's disease. You'll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team, contributing to patient care and service development while honing your skills in dysphagia management and communication. The role promises professional growth through access to expert practitioners and a commitment to continuing professional development. If you're passionate about making a difference in patient care, this opportunity is for you!

Benefits

Continuing Professional Development

Supervision Structure

Team Meetings

Access to Advanced Practitioners

Qualifications

• Evidence-based assessment and intervention for dysphagia and communication disorders.
• Experience in multidisciplinary teamwork and patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist Speech & Language Therapy for patients with dysphagia.
• Collaborate with MDTs to enhance patient care and service delivery.

Skills

Speech and Language Therapy

Dysphagia Management

Communication Skills

Caseload Management

Team Collaboration

Education

Bachelor in Speech and Language Therapy

Master in Speech and Language Therapy

Tools

Videofluoroscopy

FEES Training

Job description

Are you passionate about patient care and looking for a new and exciting challenge? Come and join our innovative, supportive, and highly skilled Speech and Language Therapy Team at LUHFT!

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, forward-thinking Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to join our Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team at Broadgreen Hospital. You will work within acute and sub-acute settings within clinical gerontology and post-elective orthopaedic and urological surgery. There is opportunity to work with a broad range of complex conditions alongside a range of other specialties. You will be supported to develop skills in dysphagia and communication as well as caseload management, prioritisation, and leadership.

The successful candidate will be part of a dynamic and friendly multidisciplinary team who are passionate about patient care and service delivery. The role embraces driving rehab and re-enablement with older people, and you will have the opportunity to work with elderly care and post-surgery patients in the acute environment.

We are a progressive department who are well-respected by our medical, nursing, and AHP colleagues. We are the drivers of a number of local policies and projects, and to ensure best practice, we work collaboratively as a department, attending CENs, SIGs, and working parties regionally and beyond.

This opportunity is also open to experienced Band 5s who are keen to develop into a Band 6 role via a training route.

You will provide evidence-based Speech and Language Therapy assessment and intervention for patients with eating, drinking, or communication difficulties. Patients may have physical and mental health conditions related to progressive conditions such as dementia, Parkinson’s disease, and MND.

There is opportunity for MDT work in a welcoming team. You will work within the MDT as a valued team member. There is opportunity to contribute to daily ward-based board-round and weekly MDT meetings. There will be opportunities for developing the SALT service provision within this setting including dysphagia/communication training.

There is access to expert practitioner Speech and Language Therapists in advanced dysphagia, stroke, critical care, respiratory, and voice. Videofluoroscopy clinics run weekly. We have a well-established FEES training programme for senior clinicians. All Band 6 staff have the opportunity to become Videofluoroscopy practitioners.

We have regular team meetings and are committed to continuing professional development. We have a clear supervision structure and advice is available from our highly skilled Clinical Specialists within the department.

Band 6 therapists are required to supervise Band 5/assistant staff and deputise for clinical team leads. You will be encouraged to support service development through inclusion in internal and external projects.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital, and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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To provide a Specialist Speech & Language Therapy Service to patients who have acquired dysphagia and communication disorders in acute and rehabilitation settings.

Be an active member of the multidisciplinary teams to ensure the best possible service for patients and their families.

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information.