Are you an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist wanting to develop a range of skills within a large teaching hospital ? Then Liverpool University Hospitals is the place to be! We are offering an exciting rotational band 5 post covering adult inpatient services. The post offers excellent opportunities to develop and acquire a wide range of essential skills and experience in acquired communication and swallowing impairments. The post will be mainly at our Aintree site and will cover acute, surgical, respiratory and trauma as part of the rotation. You will work as part of a fully integrated Multi-Disciplinary Team alongside speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and therapy assistants and will have the opportunity to work within our specialist Major Trauma Centre. The SLT team is well established and has an excellent IP FEES and videofluoroscopy service which benefit our acute inpatients. We offer excellent clinical and professional supervision with access to dysphagia training in line with the RCSLT competency framework and you will be supported with ongoing development in complex communication and dysphagia. This post is suitable for newly qualified practitioners and experienced Band 5's , with personal development plans adapted according to experience.

Main duties of the job

This post will be rotational across inpatient services but will include opportunities to gain dysphagia experience on our acute surgical and medical wards. The post offers excellent opportunities to develop and acquire a wide range of essential skills and experience in acquired communication and swallowing impairments. The post will be based mainly at our Aintree site but may require cross site working in the future.

You will work as part of a fully integrated Multi-Disciplinary Team alongside speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, dietitians and therapy assistants and will have the opportunity to work within our specialist centres including Major trauma and the newly formed North Mersey Stroke service.

There will be development and training opportunities including completion of dysphagia competency based training and external courses with access to regular peer and senior supervision.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

This post will be subject to an enhanced disclosure check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)

Please see attached job description. This job description is intended as a general guide to the duties and responsibilities of the post and not a rigid, inflexible specification. It may be subject to revision to meet the changing needs of the service, following consultation with the post holder.

Through the course of your employment you may become aware of information concerning patients or staff. All such information must be treated as confidential. Breach of this confidence may result in dismissal.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc
• Registration with HCPC
• Member of RCSLT

Desirable

• Post graduate qualification

Experience

Essential

• Of adult acquired disorders during training

Desirable

• Experience of group work
• Team working

Knowledge

Essential

• Sound theoretical knowledge of communication disorders

Skills

Essential

• Basic IT skills
• Well developed communication skills
• Clinical decision making skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including observation, listening and empathy skills

Desirable

• Basic dysphagia skills
• Organisational skills from previous work experience

Other

Essential

• Demonstrates motivation and enthusiasm
• Committed to personal development
• Awareness of own limitations and training needs
• Flexible for working in different environments

Desirable

• Demonstrates empathy with patients, carers and relatives
• Can modify own behaviour / communicative style to suit the person and situation

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aintree

Lower Lane

Liverpool

L9 7AL

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287-DSS-436-24