8a Pathway Lead in Stroke, Complex Care and - Bristol, United Kingdom - North Bristol NHS Trust

North Bristol NHS Trust

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Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Would you like to further your leadership experience as part of a large, dynamic and high profile Speech and Language Team based at Southmead Hospital, Bristol?

We are looking for a highly skilled, dynamic and motivated SLT to provide leadership to our stroke and complex care (general medicine) pathways and to oversee the governance and further development of the well-established videofluoroscopy service.

You would work closely with other band 8s leading acute and outpatient pathways and would report to the Head of Speech and Language Therapy.

Ideally you will have worked at band 7 or above in stroke, neurology and/or general medicine, have experience in the management of tracheostomies and be a level 4 videofluoroscopy practitioner.

You will have experience of team leadership and service development and evaluation.

For an insight into our team, check out this video.

The SLT Pathway Lead for Stroke, Complex Care and Videofluoroscopy provides professional, clinical, performance and operational leadership to SLT staff working in the stroke and complex care pathways.

The post holder is also responsible for the governance of the videofluoroscopy service at NBT.

To achieve this, the post holder works in close collaboration with the Head of Speech and Language Therapy and the other band Pathway Leads.

The post holder is a highly experienced clinician who independently manages a significant and highly specialised clinical caseload.

The post holds responsibility for providing strategic development of inpatient SLT services within this specialty and will develop partnerships and work closely with all service stakeholders both within and beyond the Trust to ensure a safe, evolving, fit for purpose and cost-efficient service is provided.

The post holder will contribute to wider strategic planning to facilitate enhanced quality of patient care within the Speech and Language Therapy service.

The post holder leads a rolling programme of education, clinical evaluation, audit and research across the speciality.

The postholder is responsible for developing partnerships with key strategic leads both internally within the Trust and externally and will work closely with the Head of SLT and other Pathway Leads to ensure strong communication links and equitable management of services and will deputise for the Head of SLT as required.

Do something extraordinary everyday

Joining our team at North Bristol Trust could be one of the best decisions you make.

With a wide range of roles to suit different backgrounds and interests, working with us gives you the chance to make a difference every single day.

What is North Bristol NHS Trust?

North Bristol NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare trusts in the South West of England. We provide hospital and community healthcare to people living in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We do this across a range of settings, including within our award-winning Brunel building, designed and built for a better patient and staff experience.

Our values

NBT Cares.

It's a very simple statement; one which epitomises how everybody across our organisation goes the extra mile to ensure our patients get the best possible care.

Cares stands for Caring, Ambitious, Respectful and Supportive:
Caring - because it underpins everything we do for our patients and the way we care for one another

Ambitious - because it signals that we always want to improve what we do on behalf of our patients and one another

Respectful - because every individual has an important role to play

Supportive - because we're a team and deliver together

Clinical

To have responsibility and accountability for the management of own highly specialist and complex clinical caseload of referrals, requiring admission, management and discharge decisions, within own level of competence.

This may include patients with tracheostomies

To be a key member of the multidisciplinary team and to demonstrate highly developed negotiation skills in the management of complex cases.

To provide highly specialist differential diagnosis, clinical advice and care plans/therapy in clients with dysphagia and communication impairments, which includes analysis of facts and a comparison of a range of options for appropriate intervention, implementing specialist programmes where appropriate.

To be responsible for leading videofluoroscopy assessments and to analyse, report on findings and act on the implications.

Leadership

To provide professional, clinical, performance and operational leadership relating to stroke and complex care.

To be professionally accountable for all aspects of the pathway teams' work.

This will include provision of expert SLT advice, management of clinical risk, clinical governance, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with National and Trust clinical guidelines and protocols where they exist.

To be the named operational and clinical lead for the videofluoroscopy ser