Speech and Language Therapist - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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We are a very friendly Speech & Language Therapy team who seek to enable all staff to progress to their maximum potential, and to support their colleagues to do the same.

With a strong ethos in evidence based practice and supportive patient intervention, the team works across acute and stroke wards to provide excellent patient intervention and therapy within the acute phase of their illness.

We foster good links with our community colleagues to ensure seamless care for patients who may need continuing care post discharge.

The main responsibilities of the Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist are To develop skills with an adult acute caseload in communication and dysphagia assessment and management To develop all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner To attend clinical supervision in the form of regular face to face meetings with your supervisor, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, and team case discussions To provide supervision and education of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants and Speech and Language Therapy students To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and teams clinical practice To participate in clinical audit, protocol development, objective-setting etc as required by the development of the SALT team