Slt Techn Instructor - Putney, United Kingdom - Royal Hospital For Neuro Disability

Royal Hospital For Neuro Disability

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Putney, United Kingdom

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Description

Speech and Language Therapy Technical Instructor - Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability

Department:
Speech and Language Therapy

Responsible to:
Speech and Language Therapy Clinical Leads

Salary range:
£23,314 to £26,489 (dependent on experience)
Incremental reviews take place on an annual basis

Hours of work:37.5

Location:
Putney, Southwest London

Closing date:08/03/2023

Benefits:

25 days annual leave (excluding bank hols)
Support for ongoing development
Pension scheme
Free parking & the RHN is currently situated outside the ULEZ and Congestion Zones
Travel season ticket loan to aid commuting expenses
Blue Light Card and Discounts
Onsite cafeteria
RHN Wellbeing Programme and Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
RHN Volunteering opportunities

RHN is a care provider for vulnerable patients at extreme risk. In consequence, safeguarding patients will always be our highest priority.

Summary of position and the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability
The RHN is an independent hospital and medical charity.

We care for people who have brain injuries and require assessment and intensive rehabilitation for conditions such as Huntington's disease and prolonged disorders of consciousness.

Our specialist servicesinclude a ventilator unit and a neuro-behavioural unit.

We help those with the most complex of health needs and disabilities including degenerative or progressive conditions as well as providing palliative care.

The patients we support usually have complex physical challenges alongside their neuro-disability.

Our vision for the future is that we will be the national centre of excellence for neuro-disability.

Our mission is to provide outstanding care and empowering individuals with neuro-disability, enabling them to live their lives to their fullest potential.

We are pleased to have been awarded an overall rating of 'Good' by our regulator, the CQC, in 2021 and we are proud to be delivering areas of outstanding safeguarding practice.

We are looking for a Speech and Language Technical Instructor to join our team at The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability.

This role involves working across a range of specialist units including the Brain Injury Service, Neuro-behavioural RehabilitationUnit, Ventilator Unit, Specialist Nursing Home and Huntington's Disease Unit.

You will act as support practitioner to the speech and language therapy service as part of an interdisciplinary team.

You will be required to prepare and administer therapeutic programmesfor communication and swallowing difficulties under the direction of qualified Speech and Language Therapists.

You will also provide support during the weekly FEES clinic.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is interested in a career in speech and language therapy to gain some clinical experience in adult neuro-rehabilitation and palliative care.

Main Objectives of the role

Demonstrate an awareness of RHN's objectives and contribute to achieving them appropriately.
Strive to improve efficiency in all areas of your work.
To provide a flexible speech and language therapy support service for both individual patients and groups within a multidisciplinary team environment.
To be responsible for organising and running therapeutic individual sessions and groups with a designated caseload of patients using specific technical knowledge/skill, modifying and adapting therapeutic programmes, according to patient need and agreedaims, with support and liaison from the prescribing SLT.
To communicate complex information related to treatment programmes and to provide timely feedback to the SLT.
To assist SLTs in organising and running training sessions and administration for courses.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on practice with peers and supervisors, to maintain own knowledge base and to identify own areas for development.
To undertake administrative responsibilities appropriate to the needs of the service.

Key Responsibilities

To use acquired speech and language therapy skills and techniques in management of communication and swallowing impairments to provide effective intervention as directed by a qualified SLT.
To carry out therapy programmes as prescribed by the treating SLT
To maintain appropriate, accurate and up to date patient records in line with policies and standards in both written and electronic format.
To record in patient's records, patient's progress in accordance with the specific aims and objectives outlined by the SLT.
To carry out specified informal assessments e.g. behaviour observation checklists without supervision and to discuss findings with the SLT.
To set up and support SLTs during the weekly FEES clinic.
To monitor continually and evaluate changes in the client's responses, and feedback relevant information to the therapist as required.
To discuss progress of programmes with treating SLT according to outcomes of sessions.
To adapt, modify and deliver Technical Instructor therapy programmes for patients in conjunction with the designated SLTs according to agreed aims, with regular liaison with an SLT.
To work collaboratively with SLTs in an effort to meet agreed clinical objectives and patient goals.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience:

Essential:

Formal Qualifications to degree level or equivalent
Basic understanding of speech and language therapy profession
Basic understanding of communication difficulties in brain injury and stroke and the impact upon the patient.
Experience of working with adults with a disability either in health, social or educational setting.
Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
Evidence of ability to cope effectively in difficult situations
Ability to organise w