Community Adult SLT Team Lead / Highly Specialist SLT - Dysphagia

Job summary

Are you a skilled dysphagia practitioner looking for your next challenge?

Due to Maternity Leave, we are seeking a 9 month fixed term role as our Cornwall Community Dysphagia Lead and East Team lead.

The successful post-holder will have the opportunity to lead and develop the East community team. You will also act as our Highly Specialist Dysphagia Lead SLT for the community, providing excellent patient care to your own caseload and second opinions for the wider team.

You will be part of a friendly and supportive county-wide community team and closely connected to other clinical and team leads across Adult SLT services in both acute and community teams to continuously improve and develop the care we offer.

Main duties of the job

• To deliver management within their defined area of responsibility ensuring that these services meet the requirements and targets agreed with the Trust, working in partnership with a range of key stakeholders.
• To assume operational and clinical responsibility for allocated staff team and the management and provision of quality evidence based intervention, advice, support and care for services users and their carers within the clinical area.
• To be instrumental in the on-going development of services and practices that provide high quality care and interventions.
• To provide a county-wide highly specialist adult dysphagia service, performing advanced assessment of patients including those with highly complex presentations and from this formulating a diagnosis and treatment plan, carried out as an autonomous practitioner. Will have acquired specialist knowledge in specialist area
• Maintain an agreed case load within in their clinical specialism, performing advanced assessment of patients including those with highly complex presentations.
• Formulate a diagnosis and treatment plan, which is carried out as an autonomous practitioner.
• To implement, monitor and evaluate Clinical Governance within specialist field, specifically looking at best practice and national guidelines, auditing, service evaluation, policies and research.
• To provide a leadership role that supports staff clinically, professionally and educationally in the specialist area.

About us

We're an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people's physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.

Just over 532,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.