Inpatient Band 6 SLT post

NHS Jobs; Sterling Place (IL); On-site; USD 37,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking a qualified Speech and Language Therapist to manage a caseload of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties in an inpatient setting. You will conduct specialist assessments, formulate hypotheses, and implement evidence-based interventions to improve patient outcomes.

You will write comprehensive reports, develop clear care plans, and involve patients and carers in decision-making, while collaborating with professionals across a

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems and develop interventions.
• Manage a caseload of adults in inpatient setting.
• Write comprehensive reports for professionals reflecting specialist knowledge.
• Develop clear care plans and involve patients and carers in planning.
• Collaborate with other professionals across locations and services.

Job description

To use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties for patients in an inpatient setting. To provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning, and develop and implement appropriate interventions/rehabilitation to be delivered in an inpatient settng. To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals reflecting specialist knowledge. To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management. To ensure that patients and/or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and wherever possible facilitate patients with communication and/or cognitive difficulties to participate in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes. To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to maximise the patients skills and reduce clinical risk. To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies. To adapt practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic backgrounds. To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of patients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of adult neurology (including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, and dementia). To demonstrate some knowledge and use of high and low technology communication aids with a range of patients. To manage risk when dealing with people who have swallowing difficulties, to promote choice by providing information about the risks and to contribute to moral and ethical decision making about oral and/or alternative feeding choices.

Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust