Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Highly specialist Speech and Language Therapist

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Job summary

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist who is keen to further develop their expertise in dysphagia and communication skills with us in the Paediatric SLT service at Nottingham Children's Hospital. We have full-time permanent Band 7 sessions within the acute paediatric SLT team. This team works across a range of specialities including Neurosciences, ENT, Oncology and Critical Care. You will be working alongside Clinical Specialist SLTs for Paediatrics and Neonates and alongside another Band 7 in the team, in addition to the Band 6 SLT. There is strong support from the MDT and well-established MDT services eg the Brain Injury Living Life (BRILL) Team and the long term ventilation team. There will be supervision and training provided to develop both your clinical and your leadership skills. This service is evolving and growing and we are developing our national collaborations. We are looking for an individual who wants to help us grow and develop this service.

We welcome interest in part-time and job share.

Main duties of the job

You would be part of a specialist Speech and Language Therapy team responsible for the provision of a Speech and Language Therapy service to the Nottingham Children's Hospital. This involves the assessment, differential diagnosis and management of communication and feeding problems of paediatric inpatients, across the age range within Paediatrics, with a wide range of complex medical conditions.

You will be ward based at Queen's Medical Centre with opportunities to work on paediatric Critical Care through to ward level, providing early intervention and multi-disciplinary intensive paediatric assessment and management. The SLT role is working with children during their inpatient admission,addressing their swallowing/eating and drinking difficulties and also their communication difficulties. The role includes supporting the children and MDT colleagues for a well-planned and supported early discharge home and back into education. The role also includes inter-disciplinary teaching and training of patients, families, and other professionals. There may be some opportunities for some outpatient or MDT clinic work. The post-holder will work with the Clinical Specialist to scope out future developments for the SLT role for these patients.

About us

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.Detailed job description and person specificationPlease refer to the job description and person specification attached to the advert for the full details.

Details

Date posted

08 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

164-5878186

Job locations

SLT dept, Queens Medical centre

Derby road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification.
  • Additional postgraduate training up to master's degree or equivalent
  • Health and Care Professions Council License to Practice
  • Registered member of RCSLT
  • Advanced level dysphagia training

Desirable

  • Accredited post-graduate training in dysphagia and feeding difficultie

Experience

Essential

  • post graduate experience within this specialist client group, working with dysphagia and communication difficulties autonomously and without direct supervision across a range of age groups and a range of aetiologies
  • Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, and benchmarking
  • Experience of service development and service planning
  • Experience of supporting and supervising less experienced staff
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency

Desirable

  • Experience of working with children under the age of 1 year
  • VF competency
  • Tracheostomy competency
  • Evidence of working in an acute hospital setting
  • Competency working with ventilator-dependent patients

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
  • Able to communicate complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
  • Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
  • Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
  • Demonstrate leadership ability
  • Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

  • Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options, based on well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments and a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions, underpinned by current evidence-based practice
  • Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
  • Assess and manage risk in own area including identifying clinical risks and carry out MDT Risk assessments as appropriate
  • Provides and contributes to the analysis of information and data such as caseload statistics, outcomes, activities, contacts, referral patterns

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

  • Plans, manages and prioritises own specialist caseload and those of others
  • Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
  • Effective delegation and time management skills
  • Plans, organises and delivers in service training and clinical education of students
  • Ensures appropriate clinical and profession-specific supervision arrangements in place for staff within remit

Physical skills

Essential

  • Able to undertake SLT inventions in a busy ward-based environment
  • Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential

  • Full driving licence and car insured for business use
Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

  • Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification.
  • Additional postgraduate training up to master's degree or equivalent
  • Health and Care Professions Council License to Practice
  • Registered member of RCSLT
  • Advanced level dysphagia training

Desirable

  • Accredited post-graduate training in dysphagia and feeding difficultie

Experience

Essential

  • post graduate experience within this specialist client group, working with dysphagia and communication difficulties autonomously and without direct supervision across a range of age groups and a range of aetiologies
  • Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, and benchmarking
  • Experience of service development and service planning
  • Experience of supporting and supervising less experienced staff
  • Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency

Desirable

  • Experience of working with children under the age of 1 year
  • VF competency
  • Tracheostomy competency
  • Evidence of working in an acute hospital setting
  • Competency working with ventilator-dependent patients

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
  • Able to communicate complex condition related information to patients, relatives/carers and other clinical/social care staff where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
  • Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
  • Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
  • Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
  • Demonstrate leadership ability
  • Able to maintain accurate and comprehensive treatment records in line with the trust policy and departmental procedures

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

  • Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options, based on well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments and a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions, underpinned by current evidence-based practice
  • Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
  • Assess and manage risk in own area including identifying clinical risks and carry out MDT Risk assessments as appropriate
  • Provides and contributes to the analysis of information and data such as caseload statistics, outcomes, activities, contacts, referral patterns

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

  • Plans, manages and prioritises own specialist caseload and those of others
  • Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
  • Effective delegation and time management skills
  • Plans, organises and delivers in service training and clinical education of students
  • Ensures appropriate clinical and profession-specific supervision arrangements in place for staff within remit

Physical skills

Essential

  • Able to undertake SLT inventions in a busy ward-based environment
  • Basic keyboard skills including the inputting of data

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential

  • Full driving licence and car insured for business use

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

SLT dept, Queens Medical centre

Derby road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

SLT dept, Queens Medical centre

Derby road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


Employer's website

https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Specialist SLT

Rhiannon Halfpenny

Rhiannon.halfepenny@nuh.nhs.uk

07812279793

Details

Date posted

08 January 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

164-5878186

Job locations

SLT dept, Queens Medical centre

Derby road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH


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