Speech and Language Therapist

Royal Marsden; London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Royal Marsden as a Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist in a dynamic team providing vital assessment and treatment for oncology patients. You will support multidisciplinary care, enhancing your clinical skills in a supportive environment. This role involves working with a diverse patient population, contributing to innovative care pathways, and pursuing excellence in a leading cancer center.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Dynamic working environment

Qualifications

• Experience in treating adults with communication/swallowing disorders.
• Demonstrable core skills from placements or work experience.
• Knowledge of assessment tools applicable to oncology.

Responsibilities

• Assess and manage patients with communication and swallowing disorders.
• Develop and implement specialized rehabilitation programs.
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team in an acute care setting.

Skills

Clinical reasoning

Interpersonal skills

Analytical problem solving

Education

Registered MRCSLT

Registered member of HCPC

Job description

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join the dynamic, motivated Speech and Language Therapy Team at the Royal Marsden, in this post based in Sutton. This exciting role involves the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of communication and swallowing difficulties with a range of oncology patients, across the lifespan. The majority of the role covers head and neck cancer as well as other tumour groups, including lung and neuro-oncology. You will be working alongside your SLT and other AHP colleagues in our multiprofessional structure. You will be supported by members of our excellent team and have the opportunity to achieve and enhance competencies in communication and swallowing disorders. We have a well-established supervision and support structure. There are regular journal clubs, opportunities for research and for further developing clinical skills such as videofluoroscopy and FEES.

interviews will be in Sutton on Friday June 20th

Main duties of the job

The Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist (SLT), provides a high quality cost effective SLT service for the patient with cancer. As a qualified practitioner, the postholder is a source of knowledge and expertise for patients, relatives and colleagues of all disciplines. With the support of the Band 7 SLT, they willprovide specialist assessment and treatment to patients in the acute setting with acquired communication and swallowing difficulties. The post holder will work as part of the SLT team and wider MDT and will be supported and supervised by the band 7 SLT.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals – one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey – as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.

At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.

At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information please refer to the job description and personal specification.

To assess, differentially diagnose and manage patients across the lifespan, with acquired swallowing and communication disorders, including voice as a result of their oncology diagnosis or treatment, under the support/ supervision of a senior SLT as appropriate.

To manage and prioritise a defined in-patient caseload independently with support and supervision from more senior SLTs appropriate to level of competence, and to manage and prioritise own workload including balance between administrative and clinical duties.

Developing and implementing individual specialised therapeutic rehabilitationprogrammes specific to patient’s needs based on assessment using a patient centred, evidence based, problem solving approach

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

• Registered MRCSLT
• Registered member of HCPC

Experience

• Experience of working with adults with acquired communication/ swallowing disorders. This can be from placement however examples of development of core skills in this area must be demonstrated.
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of working with patients from multicultural/lingual backgrounds and working with interpreters.
• Experience of working with children with language delay/ disorders. This can be from placement however examples of development of core skills in this area must be demonstrated.
• Experience of working in oncology

Skills Abilities/knowledge

• Developed clinical reasoning as well as analytical and creative problems solving skills
• Ability to prioritise workload demands.
• Ability to acknowledge need for, and seek support
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills as required in an oncology and palliative care setting. Ability to deal with imparting bad news.
• Ability to produce professional reports and records including, multi -professional care plans, letters, assessments for hospital and external agencies.
• Ability to reflect on clinical practice.
• Ability to work as part of a supportive team.
• Ability to work in a highly motivated, self directed manner on clinical and departmental activities.
• Ability to prioritise and manage time effectively
• Ability to enter data, prepare reports, formal written documentation and multi -media presentations.
• Ability to fulfil supervisory role for undergraduate students.
• Ability to teach both patients and carers in areas relating to rehabilitation.
• Proven ability to prepare and deliver presentations and education sessions to health care colleagues and members of public

KNOWLEDGE

• knowledge and demonstration of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to acquired communication/swallowing disorders in adults including aphasia, cognitive communication disorders, apraxia, dysarthria, dysphagia and dysphonia
• knowledge of national policies, procedures and current research relevant to oncology in adults.
• knowledge of cultural and linguistic issues in working with a multi cultural caseload
• awareness of the principles of clinical governance/ audit
• awareness of the roles of other professionals.
• awareness of the standards of record keeping
• Knowledge and demonstration of assessment tools and therapeutic interventions relevant to language delay/ disorder/ phonological delay in children.

The Royal Marsden values diversity and is committed to the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority groups. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are working to create a workplace that enables all staff to reach their full potential. We are committed to this because we know that greater diversity and inclusion will lead to an even greater positive impact for the people we serve.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. We advise you to submit your application as early as possible to prevent disappointment.

All applicants will be contacted by email to the address supplied on your application. Applicants are advised to check their email accounts regularly and to ensure that email filters are set to allow our emails.

Flu Vaccination – What We Expect of our Staff

At The Royal Marsden we have an immune compromised patient population who we must protect as much as we can against the flu virus. Each year, seasonal flu affects thousands of people in the UK. Occurring mainly in winter, it is an infectious respiratory disease capable of producing symptoms ranging from those similar to a common cold, through to very severe or even fatal disease.

The wellbeing of our staff and patients is of the upmost importance to us, and it is the expectation of The Royal Marsden that all patient-facing staff have an annual flu vaccination, provided free of charge by the Trust.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Sinead Rothrie Job title Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist Email address [e-mail]