Job summary
Vacancy only available to current STSFT employees.
Hours per week: 22.5 in Speech and Language Adult Team.
You
be vital to the delivery of our out-patient/community service across South
Tyneside and Sunderland. You will be based predominantly at Sunderland Royal
Hospital but will work within our team which covers South Tyneside and
Sunderland. You will provide clinical leadership as well as delivering a highly-specialist level clinical service.
You
will have significant skills and experience working in out-patient/community
settings. You will be skilled in supporting instrumental assessment clinics and
working with complex patients.
You will want to develop your skills in our
Trust and be part of a team that covers all aspects of adult speech and
language therapy work acute, out-patients, community, head and neck, voice,
upper airways, laryngectomy and stammering which is great for learning and
joined-up, patient-focused work! You will want to work with us to provide high-quality, safe, effective, innovative care.
Main duties of the job
As
one of our Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, you will be
joining a well-established innovative team of Speech and Language Therapists
who work closely to provide a service across a range of community and
out-patient settings.
You
will take part in instrumental assessments eg VF/FEES clinics. You will be
passionate about patientcentered care to support patients across the length of
their care pathway and ensure safe transfer between our acute and
community/out-patient service. You will be skilled in managing a complex, large
caseload and have experience of prioritising workload to manage demand and
capacity issues. You will have highly-developed skills in assessment,
diagnostics and rehabilitation in across a full spectrum of communication and
swallowing disorders and also have skills in teaching/training others.
You
will be committed to team working and to developing other staff too. You will
support less-experienced therapists through supervision, teaching and training.
You will be well-supported to further-extend your scope of practice within our
team.
The Sunderland Speech and Language Therapy team
has a strong research background and you will be encouraged to develop your
skills in this area to ensure we translate innovation, audit and research
outcomes into practice for improved patient care and outcomes.
About us
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One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.
We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for STSFT. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via the Trust's Flexible Working Policy.
The Trust employs around 8,600 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area, in some cases to a population as great as 860,000. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Childcare Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements. The Trust will not accept applications which are found to be AI generated.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To take a lead role in developing the out-patient therapy service for adults with acquired
communication and swallowing disorders. This includes planning intervention, maximising
capacity to meet demand, support safe care and to provide a greater variety of service
delivery models for patients to access.
PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To take a lead role in developing the out-patient therapy service for adults with acquired
communication and swallowing disorders. This includes planning intervention, maximising
capacity to meet demand, support safe care and to provide a greater variety of service
delivery models for patients to access.
PLEASE REFER TO ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE.
Person Specification
Other
Desirable
- Please provide a contact telephone number.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Pathology / Therapy or equivalent.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Significant post-graduate training and experience equivalent to Masters Level, working as a qualified SALT with adults with a wide range of acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, with some time spent in a specialist role.
- Post-graduate Dysphagia qualification/training.
- Post-registration education and experience equivalent to MSc level, e.g
- Advanced Dysphagia Training; Counselling Skills; post-graduate study in
- Aphasia, Leadership training.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery for both direct and indirect intervention eg group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy.
- Highly-specialist knowledge of acquired communication and swallowing in assessment, diagnosis, and therapy techniques with evidence of post-graduate qualification and training at an equivalent level.
- Successful completion of a significant number of specialist short courses/self-study/training in the specialist area of work. Evidence of
- integration of this learning into clinical practice at a highly-specialist level (e.gs., neuro-rehabilitation, stroke, dysphagia, voice, Lee Silverman Therapy Practitioner , counselling , neurolinguistics, cognitive- communication disorders, advanced videofluoroscopy interpretation, FEES analysis / interpretation, augmentative and/or alternative communication).
- Highly-developed knowledge of current best practice in speech and language therapy provision to the specialist client group.
- Knowledge of range of potential pathways of care for acquired neurological disorders of communication and swallowing.
- An in-depth knowledge of the range of health, social service, voluntary and private agencies relevant to specialism.
- A working understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession and the associated code of ethics, including a commitment to non-discriminatory practice and compliance with data protection legislation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of different learning styles and training in clinical supervision.
- Awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion issues impacting on speech and language therapy.
- An in-depth working understanding of the structure, policies, priorities, and functioning of the NHS.
Desirable
- Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RCSLT).
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in adults with acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders with some time spent working with adults in a specialist role.
- Experience and highly-developed knowledge of a range of highly-specialist clinical procedures and therapy techniques.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy.
- Experience of collaborative working practice with SALT and other professionals.
- Experience of working within a variety of settings eg in patient acute,
- intermediate care, community rehabilitation.
- Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating training within the SALT department, and to other agencies including education, health, patients, carers, social services, private and voluntary sector.
- Experience of participation in activities to support the clinical governance agenda e.g. carrying-out audit projects.
- Experience of working through others to deliver complex care plans in
- specialist area.
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations, including specialist short courses equivalent to Masters level.
- Comprehensive experience of planning, negotiating and setting specialist realistic, timed care plans/programmes, care aims and objectives.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Highly-developed auditory and visual perceptual skills for assessment of
- communication and swallowing disorders, e.g. videofluoroscopy, FEES.
- Accredited dysphagia assessment and management skills.
- Safe and effective manual handling skills of clients with complex acquired disabilities, including for safe eating and for access to communication aids.
- Computer skills to maintain information systems, generate reports and
- produce teaching materials.
- Specialist skills in use of a range of communication equipment and computer-assisted therapy hardware and software including skills in communication aid programming for individuals use.
- Ability to work on multiple demands at one time.
- To be able to work with clients in a variety of environments to enable and support communication.
- Ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's
- communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and
- enhance communicative effectiveness.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to unpleasant/highly-unpleasant
- working conditions e.g., bodily fluids, challenging behaviour.
- Ability to deal with anxious, hostile and distressed clients and families.
- Ability to carry-out duties as a lone worker.
- Ability to travel to meet the needs of the role.
Desirable
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent time-management, administrative, and organisational skills.
- The ability to work autonomously and actively within a team, within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
- Highly-developed interpersonal skills in order to facilitate professional
- relationships with clients, carers, members of multi-disciplinary teams, and others.
- Highly-developed communication skills (oral and written) enabling others to understand complex information and overcome barriers to understanding.
- Ability to carry-out highly-specialised assessment working with other
- professionals to make a differential diagnosis, prognosis, and
- management/intervention plan.
- Well-developed teaching, training, and presentation skills, in order to identify training needs, and devise and deliver training and education to other professionals and carers.
- Written skills for highly-specialist report writing, policy and guidance writing.
- Highly-tuned observational, investigative, and analytical skills enabling
- interpretation of verbal and non-verbal messages within the context of the clients overall needs.
- Ability to frequently apply sustained and intense concentration when working with clients with severe and complex needs, in order to respond appropriately and record accurately.
- Counselling skills, including the ability to empathise, convey complex and sensitive information, and deal with emotional and/or distressing
- circumstances.
Desirable
- Competencies in VF.
- Competencies in FEES.
- Leadership qualification.
- Competencies Tracheostomy.
Person Specification
Other
Desirable
- Please provide a contact telephone number.
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Pathology / Therapy or equivalent.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Significant post-graduate training and experience equivalent to Masters Level, working as a qualified SALT with adults with a wide range of acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders, with some time spent in a specialist role.
- Post-graduate Dysphagia qualification/training.
- Post-registration education and experience equivalent to MSc level, e.g
- Advanced Dysphagia Training; Counselling Skills; post-graduate study in
- Aphasia, Leadership training.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery for both direct and indirect intervention eg group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy.
- Highly-specialist knowledge of acquired communication and swallowing in assessment, diagnosis, and therapy techniques with evidence of post-graduate qualification and training at an equivalent level.
- Successful completion of a significant number of specialist short courses/self-study/training in the specialist area of work. Evidence of
- integration of this learning into clinical practice at a highly-specialist level (e.gs., neuro-rehabilitation, stroke, dysphagia, voice, Lee Silverman Therapy Practitioner , counselling , neurolinguistics, cognitive- communication disorders, advanced videofluoroscopy interpretation, FEES analysis / interpretation, augmentative and/or alternative communication).
- Highly-developed knowledge of current best practice in speech and language therapy provision to the specialist client group.
- Knowledge of range of potential pathways of care for acquired neurological disorders of communication and swallowing.
- An in-depth knowledge of the range of health, social service, voluntary and private agencies relevant to specialism.
- A working understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession and the associated code of ethics, including a commitment to non-discriminatory practice and compliance with data protection legislation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of different learning styles and training in clinical supervision.
- Awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion issues impacting on speech and language therapy.
- An in-depth working understanding of the structure, policies, priorities, and functioning of the NHS.
Desirable
- Membership of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapy (RCSLT).
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in adults with acquired speech, language and swallowing disorders with some time spent working with adults in a specialist role.
- Experience and highly-developed knowledge of a range of highly-specialist clinical procedures and therapy techniques.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy.
- Experience of collaborative working practice with SALT and other professionals.
- Experience of working within a variety of settings eg in patient acute,
- intermediate care, community rehabilitation.
- Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating training within the SALT department, and to other agencies including education, health, patients, carers, social services, private and voluntary sector.
- Experience of participation in activities to support the clinical governance agenda e.g. carrying-out audit projects.
- Experience of working through others to deliver complex care plans in
- specialist area.
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations, including specialist short courses equivalent to Masters level.
- Comprehensive experience of planning, negotiating and setting specialist realistic, timed care plans/programmes, care aims and objectives.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Highly-developed auditory and visual perceptual skills for assessment of
- communication and swallowing disorders, e.g. videofluoroscopy, FEES.
- Accredited dysphagia assessment and management skills.
- Safe and effective manual handling skills of clients with complex acquired disabilities, including for safe eating and for access to communication aids.
- Computer skills to maintain information systems, generate reports and
- produce teaching materials.
- Specialist skills in use of a range of communication equipment and computer-assisted therapy hardware and software including skills in communication aid programming for individuals use.
- Ability to work on multiple demands at one time.
- To be able to work with clients in a variety of environments to enable and support communication.
- Ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's
- communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and
- enhance communicative effectiveness.
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to unpleasant/highly-unpleasant
- working conditions e.g., bodily fluids, challenging behaviour.
- Ability to deal with anxious, hostile and distressed clients and families.
- Ability to carry-out duties as a lone worker.
- Ability to travel to meet the needs of the role.
Desirable
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent time-management, administrative, and organisational skills.
- The ability to work autonomously and actively within a team, within codes of practice and professional guidelines.
- Highly-developed interpersonal skills in order to facilitate professional
- relationships with clients, carers, members of multi-disciplinary teams, and others.
- Highly-developed communication skills (oral and written) enabling others to understand complex information and overcome barriers to understanding.
- Ability to carry-out highly-specialised assessment working with other
- professionals to make a differential diagnosis, prognosis, and
- management/intervention plan.
- Well-developed teaching, training, and presentation skills, in order to identify training needs, and devise and deliver training and education to other professionals and carers.
- Written skills for highly-specialist report writing, policy and guidance writing.
- Highly-tuned observational, investigative, and analytical skills enabling
- interpretation of verbal and non-verbal messages within the context of the clients overall needs.
- Ability to frequently apply sustained and intense concentration when working with clients with severe and complex needs, in order to respond appropriately and record accurately.
- Counselling skills, including the ability to empathise, convey complex and sensitive information, and deal with emotional and/or distressing
- circumstances.
Desirable
- Competencies in VF.
- Competencies in FEES.
- Leadership qualification.
- Competencies Tracheostomy.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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