Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Advanced Speech & Language Therapist - Critical Care and Respiratory

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Job summary

Are you a Speech & Language therapist seeking the freedom to lead ideas for change?

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust are excited to announce a new team lead post within our acute Speech & Language therapy service as we seek to build on our existing leadership structure and strengthen our clinical specialist career pathways towards the opening of our new acute hospital site, Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in 2023.

The successful post holder will demonstrate advanced leadership and clinical skills to grow and develop our services to patients requiring critical care and respiratory care as part of their in-patient journey. The post requires both advanced levels of clinical practice and operational management of a team of qualified Speech & Language Therapists and therapy support workers to deliver high-quality care to these patient groups.

As a service, we take a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where promotion of independence and early intervention is valued using 'What matters to you?' principles. We are looking for a suitably experienced and aspirational candidate who shares these core values.

We are proud to say that as a team we value looking after the health and well-being of each other as highly as we do our patients and families.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be able to evidence sound knowledge and skills in the management of patients requiring critical care and respiratory services as part of their recovery.

Embedding robust instrumental assessment services for our patients is part of the SLT service ambition and so candidates with experience and competence in FEES and a desire to shape these assessment pathways are essential.

Upon commencement in the role new starters will be supported through a period of induction alongside ongoing managerial and clinical support and training, as well as peer support both within SLT and across the multidisciplinary team.

Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to contact Lucy Wood, Service Lead for Speech & Language Therapy on 07970 993641 or lucy.wood27@nh.net for further information or to arrange an informal visit.

Alternatively, if you feel passionately about this clinical leadership opportunity and wish to take your first step into a clinical specialist position but would need some support and development into any element of the role please do make contact to discuss this individually.

About us

We are an integrated care organisation with an outstanding reputation for teaching, education, research and innovation. Our 6,600 staff are here for 530,000 local people when they need us.City Hospital in Birmingham is home to the Birmingham and Midland Eye Centre, and our Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre. It's also the regional base for the National Poisons Information Service. At Sandwell General Hospital in West Bromwich, you'll find inpatient, paediatrics, most general surgery and our stroke specialist centre. At the Trust, we also have significant academic departments in cardiology, rheumatology, ophthalmology and neurology. We have intermediate care hubs at Rowley Regis and at Leasowes in Smethwick. Our community teams throughout Sandwell provide integrated services for children in schools, GP practices and at home. They also offer both general and specialist home care for adults in hospices and nursing homes.In 2023 we will open the brand new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital - the perfect demonstration of our vision for the future. And we are investing in far more than buildings.We are dedicated to investing in you. It matters to us that you enjoy the training, support and opportunities you need to fulfil your total potential and build the career you really want.To make that happen, we've trebled our training budget. We've developed new career path frameworks and new ways to recognise your achievements.

Details

Date posted

28 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

381-CT-4254947

Job locations

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of the main responsibilities of this post.

Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to make further enquiries through contacting Lucy Wood - Service Lead for Speech & Language Therapy

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for details of the main responsibilities of this post.

Interested candidates are strongly encouraged to make further enquiries through contacting Lucy Wood - Service Lead for Speech & Language Therapy

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Speech & Language Therapy
  • HCPC Registration
  • RCSLT Level C dysphagia framework competency completion

Desirable

  • Membership of relevant RCSLT Clinical Excellence Network

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstration of significant post graduate clinical experience relevant to this area of clinical specialism
  • Demonstration of clinical experience and competence within specialism sufficient to be able to undertake highly developed assessment and management of patients with diverse and complex swallowing and communication presentations
  • Demonstration of clinical competence managing patients requiring tracheostomy and mechanical ventilation

Desirable

  • Staff development and management of sickness/performance/informal disciplinary matters
  • Policy/protocol development/evaluation
  • Involvement in audit and research
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Speech & Language Therapy
  • HCPC Registration
  • RCSLT Level C dysphagia framework competency completion

Desirable

  • Membership of relevant RCSLT Clinical Excellence Network

Experience

Essential

  • Demonstration of significant post graduate clinical experience relevant to this area of clinical specialism
  • Demonstration of clinical experience and competence within specialism sufficient to be able to undertake highly developed assessment and management of patients with diverse and complex swallowing and communication presentations
  • Demonstration of clinical competence managing patients requiring tracheostomy and mechanical ventilation

Desirable

  • Staff development and management of sickness/performance/informal disciplinary matters
  • Policy/protocol development/evaluation
  • Involvement in audit and research

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

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Address

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ


Employer's website

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

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Service Lead - Speech & Language Therapy

Lucy Wood

lucy.wood27@nhs.net

07970993641

Details

Date posted

28 June 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£40,057 to £45,839 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

381-CT-4254947

Job locations

SWB NHS Trust

Sandwell/Birmingham

B71 4HJ


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