Job summary
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
The post holder will provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment service as part of the Merton Neuro Rehab Team on a virtual and domiciliary basis across Merton. The service includes clients with a wide range of acquired communication and swallowing difficulties, such as stroke and head injury, and those who have a degenerative condition and need support to manage disability and quality of life. The service also provides input for clients who have cognitive-communication and vocational rehabilitation needs
The post holder will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary neurorehab team in addition to the wider speech and language therapy team across CLCH, acting as a resource to other medical, nursing, therapy and social services staff and voluntary agencies and as an interface link for Speech and Language Therapy with acute providers
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy lead role provided by the neuro team. To take responsibility for the referrals, procedures and operational running of the service along with the leads and service manager
To develop and provide appropriate highly specialist speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
To facilitate group work and peer mentoring for people affected by a neurological condition, alongside the MDT.
To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's communication
and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative
effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings
To carry out highly specialist physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating, drinking and swallowing
To employ manual dexterity in the manipulation and stimulation of the orofacial
About us
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as an integral member of the Merton Neuro Rehab service
To produce reports regarding client's needs, reflecting specialist
knowledge, summarising proposed care plans and ensuring that these are
integrated into the client's Individual Care Plan
To provide supervision, advice and support to others regarding the management
and care of clients with communication and/or eating and swallowing difficulties
To generate appropriate and differentiated strategies for case load management,
with regard for best available evidence
To attend and contribute to relevant multidisciplinary meetings and client reviews
as appropriate
To monitor the waiting list in conjunction with the neuro team leads, and to communicate if / when difficulties arise and to decide together on appropriate actions
Job description
Job responsibilities
To work as an integral member of the Merton Neuro Rehab service
To produce reports regarding client's needs, reflecting specialist
knowledge, summarising proposed care plans and ensuring that these are
integrated into the client's Individual Care Plan
To provide supervision, advice and support to others regarding the management
and care of clients with communication and/or eating and swallowing difficulties
To generate appropriate and differentiated strategies for case load management,
with regard for best available evidence
To attend and contribute to relevant multidisciplinary meetings and client reviews
as appropriate
To monitor the waiting list in conjunction with the neuro team leads, and to communicate if / when difficulties arise and to decide together on appropriate actions
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oRegistration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
- oRecognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
- oRegistered member of RCSLT.
- oCourses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework
- oCompleted ADOS assessment training and is confident in administering the assessment, interpreting the findings and scoring the assessment. Has been completing ADOS Assessments for at least 2 years.
Desirable
- oMembership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)
Experience
Essential
- oWorking with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical
- oSpecialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
- oWorking collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
- oKnowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
- oExperience of offering clinical supervision
skills and knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques and therapeutic interventions
- oUnderstanding of safeguarding
- oAwareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- oWorking knowledge of the roles of other professionals in Health, Education and Social Care involved with CYP.
- oDemonstrates well developed ability to analyse and reflect upon complex information.
- oExcellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
- oPrioritisation skills
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- oRegistration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
- oRecognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
- oRegistered member of RCSLT.
- oCourses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework
- oCompleted ADOS assessment training and is confident in administering the assessment, interpreting the findings and scoring the assessment. Has been completing ADOS Assessments for at least 2 years.
Desirable
- oMembership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)
Experience
Essential
- oWorking with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical
- oSpecialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
- oWorking collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
- oKnowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
- oExperience of offering clinical supervision
skills and knowledge
Essential
- oKnowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques and therapeutic interventions
- oUnderstanding of safeguarding
- oAwareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- oWorking knowledge of the roles of other professionals in Health, Education and Social Care involved with CYP.
- oDemonstrates well developed ability to analyse and reflect upon complex information.
- oExcellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
- oPrioritisation 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.
