Job summary
Management and provision of highly specialist gender diverse Speech & Language Therapy , using models of best practice to assess the client's needs, and to provide therapy, advice and support for the patient.
Evaluation of clients' needs in order to give effective support at the right time, involving prioritisation of the caseload, according to recently reviewed literature and clinical effectiveness guidelinesManagement and provision of highly specialist SLT for specified clients, by assessing needs and then providing programmes and resources, which are reviewed and up-dated regularly.
Support for colleagues within and outside of Speech & Language Therapy, including the provision of student placements.
Main duties of the job
Please see accompanying Job Description for Highly Specialised Gender Diverse Speech and Language Therapist.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess, develop and implement Highly Specialist gender diverse speech and language therapy treatment and evaluate outcomes.To use highly specialist skills to formulate treatment/care plans.
To provide highly specialised written and verbal advice to a range of professionals regarding the management and care of clients with severe/ complex communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
To maintain highly specialist knowledge of current practice and literature, ensuring decisions are based on the best available evidence.
To adapt clinical practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to clients.
To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions.
To demonstrate empathy with clients and form therapeutic relationships with carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
To demonstrate skills in motivating clients with severe communication needs and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of clients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.To employ counselling skills with clients/ carers with highly complex needs and maintain sensitivity when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and implications of the same.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
To manage and prioritise complex and specialist caseload and workload independently and use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/ decision making.
To use highly specialist knowledge to develop protocols and care packages in areas of expertise.
To monitor and evaluate own highly specialist service delivery.
To produce reports reflecting highly specialist knowledge for individual clients and client groups.
To be an active member of the multi disciplinary team, contributing to service delivery, audit and development.
To provide highly specialist advice/ second opinions to speech and language therapists and other professionals in areas of expertise.
To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and Trust policies.
To share information with others, observing data protection guidelines.To gather activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly within trust guidelines.To develop care protocols for specific clinical groups in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and team leader to improve patient care.
To advise team leader of issues of service delivery including shortfall, service pressures and to use highly specialist knowledge to inform service/ policy developments as appropriate.To develop skills in leadership within appropriate specialist area.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To assess, develop and implement Highly Specialist gender diverse speech and language therapy treatment and evaluate outcomes.To use highly specialist skills to formulate treatment/care plans.
To provide highly specialised written and verbal advice to a range of professionals regarding the management and care of clients with severe/ complex communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties.
To maintain highly specialist knowledge of current practice and literature, ensuring decisions are based on the best available evidence.
To adapt clinical practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to clients.
To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions.
To demonstrate empathy with clients and form therapeutic relationships with carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist.
To demonstrate skills in motivating clients with severe communication needs and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of clients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.To employ counselling skills with clients/ carers with highly complex needs and maintain sensitivity when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and implications of the same.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures.
To manage and prioritise complex and specialist caseload and workload independently and use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/ decision making.
To use highly specialist knowledge to develop protocols and care packages in areas of expertise.
To monitor and evaluate own highly specialist service delivery.
To produce reports reflecting highly specialist knowledge for individual clients and client groups.
To be an active member of the multi disciplinary team, contributing to service delivery, audit and development.
To provide highly specialist advice/ second opinions to speech and language therapists and other professionals in areas of expertise.
To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and Trust policies.
To share information with others, observing data protection guidelines.To gather activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly within trust guidelines.To develop care protocols for specific clinical groups in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and team leader to improve patient care.
To advise team leader of issues of service delivery including shortfall, service pressures and to use highly specialist knowledge to inform service/ policy developments as appropriate.To develop skills in leadership within appropriate specialist area.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- HCPC - Licence to Practice
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master's degree equivalent
- Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
- Demonstrable relevant experience post qualification, evidence of working as a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
- In-depth experience within specialist area
Knowledge
Essential
- Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and develop leadership responsibilities
- Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- In depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Highly developed Negotiation and Problem solving skills
- Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills
- Well developed concentration skills
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- HCPC - Licence to Practice
- Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
- Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses up to Master's degree equivalent
- Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups
Experience
Essential
- Relevant experience at undergraduate/post graduate level
- Demonstrable relevant experience post qualification, evidence of working as a Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
- In-depth experience within specialist area
Knowledge
Essential
- Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
- Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and develop leadership responsibilities
- Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
- In depth knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the specialist client group)
- In depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
- In depth knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- Understanding of the roles of other professionals (relevant to the client group)
- Knowledge of standards of record keeping
Skills
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal skills - including observation, listening and empathy skills
- Highly developed Negotiation and Problem solving skills
- Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills
- Well developed concentration skills
- Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal.
- Excellent organisational skills
- Prioritisation skills.
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.
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.
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).
