Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Band 7

Main area

Speech and Language Therapy

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Grade

Band 7

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Full time hours per week

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Job ref

Site

Queen's Medical Centre

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Town

Nottingham

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Salary
- £41,659 - £47,672 Per Annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Today at 23:59Job overview

Are you looking to develop your leadership skills and develop services to provide the best quality care for patients?

The Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service at Nottingham University Hospital (NUH) Trust has recently undergone significant transition. The acute paediatric/neonatal SLT service has merged with the service for Adult acute and neuro-rehabilitation beds. The service is now employed directly by NUH.

This has created opportunities for increased levels of engagement within the acute Trust and has provided exciting opportunities around how the service is delivered.

This is a new post that will be part of our growing Specialist Medicine and Dementia inpatient team.

You will work alongside other band 7 colleagues and will have designated responsibility with a clinical focus on an aspect of our service, such as frailty, respiratory medicine, admissions and end of life care, as well as team leader responsibilities.

You will be working across our acute sites, working with a range of patients across different specialties including regional services.

There will be opportunities for you to develop you instrumental swallow assessment skills in FEES and videofluoroscopy.

You will be joining a team of enthusiastic, supportive, innovative therapists and assistants. There is a high level of clinical expertise within the team. We have strong links with the wider MDT and community SLT services. There are lots of opportunities for career development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, management and treatment programme to people with communication and swallowing difficulties.

The post holder will provide highly specialist clinical expertise, with experience working with a wide range of aetiologies and specialisms.

The post holder will provide day to day management of the service and provide high quality clinical supervision.

The post holder may also lead on strategic developments within their specialism, in liaison with their colleagues and service leads.

This is a full time post but we would consider part time as well as fixed term contracts. There maybe an additional requirement to work on the weekend and bank holidays as part of a rota.

Working for our organisation

NUH is a large teaching hospital, across 2 sites: Queens Medical Centre and City Hospital. The Adult SLT service works across both sites, working alongside a separate ENT service. We work across a very broad range of acute specialties including Healthcare of the Older Person, Respiratory, and Critical Care. NUH host a number of regional services including Neurosciences unit, Major Trauma Centre, a comprehensive Stroke unit, Trent Cardiac Centre, Burns Unit and Upper GI services. We also have SLTs within the Neurorehabilitation unit, the MDT neurorehabilitation outpatient services, and an SLT service for Neurology outpatients.
Speech and Language Therapy

is part of the Therapy and Rehabilitation Directorate, under clinical support. The service is lead by SLTs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Service delivery
To work autonomously to provide a coordinated and highly specialist service to designated specialism within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context and inform and advise the service leads as to training, resources, trends and development needs

To work collaboratively with a variety of different agencies/professionals ensuring management and treatment meets the holistic needs, providing a well co-ordinated care plan for specialism/setting

To represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums

To represent speech, language and communication and/or dysphagia needs at agreed forums

To participate in multi
- disciplinary projects as agreed.

Clinical Practice
To independently manage, triage and prioritise own complex caseload providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, formulation, diagnosis, intervention and advice based on evidence based practice

The post requires

Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree

HCPC and RCSLT registration

Evidence of appropriate CPD post qualifying.

Excellent IT skill

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria