Specialist Speech and Language Therapist - Fylde, United Kingdom - Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Fylde, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Are you passionate about the management of patients in an acute stroke setting and supporting their continued rehabilitation via partnership working with the integrated community neurorehabilitation team? If so this post could be for you

This successful applicant will have the unique opportunity to work as part of the Speech and Language Therapy services within the Stroke in-patient setting.

You will work within a team of dedicated Speech and Language Therapists on the unit, working closely with nursing, medical and therapy colleagues.

The post holder will provide assessment and intervention to address communication and swallowing difficulties, using their expertise to maximise patient communication and management of dysphagia.

This is an exciting time as the trust is developing a HASU, the service is expanding and we are looking for a driven individual to develop the team.

The Trust's mission is "Together We Care" which encompasses the strategic vision for operating as a high performing organisation within an Integrated Care System (ICS), which provides quality, safe and effective care.

This will be achieved in a financially sustainable way through our values-driven, skilled and motivated workforce:

People-centred

Serving people is the focus of everything we do;

Positive
- having a "can do" response whatever the situation;
Compassion
- always demonstrating we care;
Excellence
- continually striving to provide the best care possible.

Our Values are drivers for the behaviours that all our staff strive to demonstrate.

The values and behaviours have been and continue to be embedded and communicated across the organisation via a number of initiatives - including our recruitment processes, corporate induction, team briefings, meetings, appraisals and our annual awards ceremony.

We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-1- To advise and co-ordinator the SLT stroke provision across the acute and rehabilitation unit with support of the SLT Team Leader.

To provide specialist assessment, treatment and rehabilitation to patients who have acquired communication and/or swallowing disorders utilising current evidence based practice to interpret and analyse clinical and nonclinical information to form accurate diagnoses and prognoses; develop comprehensive management and treatment plans; and guide discharge planning.
To contribute to the assessment of a patients' mental capacity and to assist patients to maximise their independence in decisionmaking and communicating their wishes.
To participate in MDT, Best Interest and Family Meetings. Providing information, evidence and advice regarding communication and swallowing disorders.
To ensure patients and carers are involved in developing relevant goals and treatment programmes wherever possible.
To adapt practice to meet individual patients' circumstances including cultural and linguistic differences.
To help and advise colleagues, other members of the MDT, relatives and carers on the best course of intervention, including discharge planning.
To input into the Videofluoroscopy clinic as required and as competencies allow.
To liaise with other departmental staff and provide advice / second opinions when required by colleagues within and outside the department.
To follow departmental policies and procedures regarding admission to and discharge from the service.
To be responsible for managing own clinical caseload on the Stroke Unit, delegating tasks to junior SLT clinicians and therapy assistants, and maintaining accurate records of work.
To work flexibly within the Speech and Language Therapy Department, working across site or within other areas when required to do so.
To promote the role of SLT both informally and formally across the BVH Stroke Unit and wider hospital community.
To work collaboratively with other agencies as part of a multidisciplinary/multiagency team, to ensure effective service provision.
Contribute to data collection in accordance with departmental, the Trust and national guidelines/policies including but not limited to SSNAP data collection.
Maintain up to date knowledge of latest professional and national guidelines regarding best practice including but not limited to NICE Stroke Guidelines.
Maintain up to date knowledge regarding infection prevention and control and promotion of this across the SLT department, stroke and wider hospital community.
To develop the service providing high quality care on the new HASU, coming up with new ways of working by identifying quality improvement ideas.