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    Highly Specialist Speech - Leeds, United Kingdom - Leeds Teaching Hospitals

    Leeds Teaching Hospitals
    Leeds Teaching Hospitals Leeds, United Kingdom

    6 days ago

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    Job summary

    Are you interested in working in the acute paediatric setting? We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Band 7 Specialist SLT to join us within the Paediatric SLT team at Leeds Childrens Hospital. An opportunity has arisen to develop the SLT role within the Neurosciences team, encompassing inpatient neuro / rehab and the neuromuscular service. Are you committed to providing high quality care and want to be part of an established team within Leeds Childrens Hospital? This post will provide an excellent opportunity to develop skills as a core team member with a focus on neurology and service development in this area. Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust is well-established, offering a number of specialities and providing care across the region. The fantastic work of LTHT recently featured on Saving Lives in Leeds and it is one of the largest acute health providers in the UK situated within a vibrant city centre in the North. You will be based at a modern and well equipped office space with areas to suit a range of working preferences. Staff wellbeing and work-life balance is a top priority; with access to internal support groups as well as staff wellbeing champions, mental health first aiders and flexible working options.

    Main duties of the job

    To fulfil the role you will be experienced at an advanced level, demonstrating highly developed skills in assessment, instrumental evaluation, differential diagnosis, treatment & management of Feeding, Swallowing and Communication difficulties. You will manage complex dysphagia working closely with patients, families and MDT ensuring high quality care. This may include tracheostomy management and use of VFSS. Excellent communication skills, organisation, team working and the ability to show evidence of CPD are required. You will carry a complex clinical caseload focusing on neurology, helping coordinate service development, training, assessments/treatments and transfer of care. Governance is key to this role with expectations to undertake audits, collate clinical outcomes and participate in quality forums to improve quality, safety and productivity. You will have experience in providing teaching, mentoring, clinical supervision and supporting competencies.

    About us

    Our Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy team provide hospital based services for children with complex communication and/or swallowing difficulties linked to a variety of acute & chronic conditions across a broad range of medical specialities at local & regional level. This role will also include working with SLT colleagues across these areas. This post provides excellent opportunities to develop skills as a core member of a well-established MDT. The post holder will join a highly supportive & innovative wider SLT Service. The department works to the values of the organisation & everyone is empowered to embrace continuous personal & professional improvement. We offer comprehensive supervision in conjunction with a well-established CPD program & access to regular staff meetings. Weve created a culture where people take a real pride in their work, respect each other & work together to deliver exceptional standards of patient care.

    Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    2. JOB PURPOSE

    To assess differentially diagnose and manage complex communication and swallowing breakdown relating to a wide range of conditions. Utilise highly specialist knowledge in line with local policies/protocols and professional guidelines. Provide specialist second opinions on request to other health and social care professionals. Build links with allied agencies across primary and secondary care improving local and regional care pathways across in/outpatient settings.

    Diagnose, assess, treat and manage complex communication, swallowing, cognitive and emotional impairments. Ensure all patients have opportunities to improve their swallowing/communication function and decrease reliance on enteral feeds and communication aids.

    Develop a rehabilitation care pathway focussing on education, enablement and empowerment of service users and their carers

    3. JOB DIMENSIONS

    The post holder will:

    Manage Highly Specialist caseloads ensuring their complex communication and swallowing needs are met safely

    Provide seamless pathway of care with locality services ensuring equitable citywide provision.

    Manage local and regional complex caseloads.

    Plan, coordinate and deliver medical education and training programs for health/social staff, patients, care providers, regional SLTs and students

    Act as patient advocate facilitating communication in order to secure compliance with Mental Capacity Act

    Audit caseloads and provision to measure value of input across this care pathway and evaluate alternative models of provision

    Optimise service provision by balancing provision between specialist Acute and Outpatient clinics

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree accredited by RCSLT
  • Health Professions Council Licence to practice as a Speech & Language Therapist
  • Registered Member of Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
  • Advanced level dysphagia training
  • Post Graduate training in Paediatric Dysphagia

    • Desirable

  • EKSF/Appraisal Training
  • Advanced communication skills
  • Post graduate training in VFSS
  • Post graduate training in tracheostomy
  • Neonatal competencies

    • Skills & Behaviours

    Essential

  • Demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills. Active and empathetic listening/counselling skills
  • Sensitive to the needs of others and has an awareness and responsiveness to other people's feelings and needs
  • Values differences; regards people as individuals and appreciates value of diversity in the workplace
  • Able to work as part of a team, co-operating to work together and in conjunction with others and willing to help and assist wherever possible and appropriate
  • Able to develop, establish and maintain positive relationships with others both internal and external to the organisation
  • Able to work under pressure, dealing with peaks and troughs in workload
  • Positive attitude to dealing with change, flexible and adaptable, willing to change and accpet change and to explore new ways of doing things and approaches
  • Highly motivated and reliable
  • Has a strong degree of personal integrity; able to adhere to standards of conduct based on a sense of right and wrong and be dependable and reliable
  • Ability to formulate independent clinical decisions following assessment
  • Able to negotiate with client/carer and medical/AHP teams around individual case management
  • Able to communicate complex, sensitive condition-related information from assessment to patients and carers
  • Ability to give clear advice, instruction and training to patients, cares and other professionals relating to complex communication/swallowing disorders
  • Good time management, organisational and prioritisation skills
  • Well-developed analytical, reflective, negotiation and problem solving skills

    • Desirable

  • Good organisational skills
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Office

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Specialist knowledge of relevant client groups
  • In-depth knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions and evidence of highly specialist clinical expertise relevant to the specialism
  • Well established knowledge of RCSLT Professional and Clinical Guidelines/policies both locally and nationally in the specialism as well as relevant national strategy and drivers
  • Substantial SLT experience post qualification with significant experience of assessment, diagnosis, treatment & management of neonates and older children
  • Experience working at advanced level in the assessment, differential diagnosis and management of the specialism
  • Experience in teaching competencies to less experienced Speech & Language Therapists
  • Experience in the provision of second opinions and advice to internal and external professional colleagues
  • Experience in delivering Communication and Swallowing training to SLT colleagues and other members of the MDT
  • Experience of conduction clinical audit
  • Able to manage the emotional consequences of patients with a range of feeding and communication disorders
  • Experience in student clinical supervision

    • Desirable

  • Has attended Clinical Supervisory Skills Course, or equivalent
  • Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance, including audit cycle, continuous quality improvement and user involvement.
  • Experience in research/audit
  • Line Management experience
  • Experience in conducting appraisals
  • Experience of working in Specialist MDT's and acting as a specialist SLT resource
  • Experience of working with AAC
  • Competence and experience in conducting, interpreting and analysing VFSS to suppose diagnosis and management of patients presenting with complex paediatric dysphagia
  • Assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of communication and feeding disorders associated with tracheostomy including ventilator assisted patients in a paediatric setting

    • Other criteria

    Essential

  • Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically
  • Highly developed Negotiation and Problem solving skills
  • Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
  • Must be willing to participate in any relevant training identified to develop skills required to carry out duties
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