Job summary
***INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY***
To provide highly specialist clinical input and clinical leadership to adult clients with oro-pharyngeal dysphagia, across acute and community settings.
Main duties of the job
- To co-ordinate roles, responsibilities and personal development of staff working with adult clients with dysphagia, liaising with the Head of Profession and others as required
- To empower the adult SALT team to develop & maintain the best possible dysphagia services to adults across inpatient and community settings
- To ensure, encourage & demonstrate best practice in the management of adults with dysphagia and to work closely with carers, relatives, support workers, hospital staff and other professionals including paediatric SLTs working in dysphagia
- To take a clinical caseload in inpatient and/or community settings as required by the SALT service.
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust.
Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.
We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.
More than 3,500 people work for the Trust they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.
The Trust encourages applications from people outside of the NHS and welcomes the valuable experiences and skills they can bring to the organisation.
We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.
Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time all the time.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information about this role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For more information about this role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
- Membership to RCSLT
- Registered member of HCPC
- Masters level qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Skills Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication and an ability to adapt communication to a wide range of clients and situations
- Ability to relate emerging best practice to departmental policy development
- Ability to lead and train carers, assistants and others
Desirable
- Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic use of computer software
Experience
Essential
- Proven leadership/management experience.
- Proven experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of managing own large and complex caseload
- Experience in working in a multidisciplinary environment
- Use of alternative and augmentative communication
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and creative
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work with patience, tolerance and good humour
- Ability to use initiative and show flexibility in approach to working practices
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy
- Membership to RCSLT
- Registered member of HCPC
- Masters level qualification or equivalent
Desirable
Skills Knowledge & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent communication and an ability to adapt communication to a wide range of clients and situations
- Ability to relate emerging best practice to departmental policy development
- Ability to lead and train carers, assistants and others
Desirable
- Knowledge of appropriate therapeutic use of computer software
Experience
Essential
- Proven leadership/management experience.
- Proven experience of inter-agency working
- Experience of managing own large and complex caseload
- Experience in working in a multidisciplinary environment
- Use of alternative and augmentative communication
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and creative
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to work with patience, tolerance and good humour
- Ability to use initiative and show flexibility in approach to working practices
- Ability to fulfil the travel requirements of post
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).
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).
