This is an exciting opportunity for a therapist with a broad range of experience to join our 'front door' SLT service. NUH Therapy and Rehab Service have a multi-disciplinary therapy team that works in the admissions areas at Queens Medical Centre. The team comprises of Speech & Language therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, and therapy support staff.

The SLT 'front door' service provides input to a number of admissions and assessment areas including Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC), Geriatric Admissions Unit, and the Emergency Department (ED). The therapy team strengthen early decision making to facilitate discharge or admissions to the appropriate specialities. You will work closely with another SLT and Therapies colleagues to continue shaping, innovating and develop this service.

This post is part of the Specialist Medicine and Dementia inpatient team. There will be opportunities for you to develop you instrumental swallow assessment skills in FEES and videofluoroscopy.

You will be joining a team of enthusiastic, supportive, innovative therapists and assistants. There is a high level of clinical expertise within the team. We have strong links with the wider MDT and community SLT services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, management and treatment programme to people with communication and swallowing difficulties.

The post holder will provide highly specialist clinical expertise, with experience working with a wide range of aetiologies and specialisms.

The post holder will provide day to day management of the service and provide high quality clinical supervision.

The post holder may also lead on strategic developments within their specialism, in liaison with their colleagues and service leads.

Please note this is a part time post working closely with a band 7 colleague.

About us

NUH is a large teaching hospital, across multiple sites, the acute sites are the Queens Medical Centre and City Hospital. The Acute Adult and Children's SLT services work across sites, working alongside a separate ENT SLT service. We work across a very broad range of acute specialties including Healthcare of the Older Person, Respiratory, and Critical Care. NUH host a number of regional services including Neurosciences unit, Major Trauma Centre, a comprehensive Stroke unit, Trent Cardiac Centre, Burns Unit and Upper GI services. We also have SLTs within the Neuro-rehabilitation unit, the MDT neuro-rehabilitation outpatient services, and an SLT service for Neurology outpatients.

Speech and Language Therapy is part of the Therapy and Rehabilitation Directorate, under clinical support. The service is lead by SLTs.

Job description

Job responsibilities

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

Service delivery

To work autonomously to provide a coordinated and highly specialist service to designated specialism within a multi-disciplinary/multi-agency context and inform and advise the service leads as to training, resources, trends and development needs

To work collaboratively with a variety of different agencies/professionals ensuring management and treatment meets the holistic needs, providing a well co-ordinated care plan for specialism/setting

To represent the Speech and Language Therapy service at agreed forums

To represent speech, language and communication and/or dysphagia needs at agreed forums

To participate in multi- disciplinary projects as agreed.

Clinical Practice

To independently manage, triage and prioritise own complex caseload providing a highly specialist SLT assessment, formulation, diagnosis, intervention and advice based on evidence based practice

The post requires

Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree

HCPC and RCSLT registration

Evidence of appropriate CPD post qualifying.

Excellent IT skill

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Recognised Speech & Language Therapy Degree Qualification.
• Additional postgraduate training up to master's degree equivalent
• Health and Care Professions Council License to Practice
• Registered member of RCSLT
• Post-graduate experience in specialist area

Desirable

• Master's degree

Experience

Essential

• Significant post graduate experience within this specialist client group, working with dysphagia and communication difficulties autonomously and without direct supervision
• Experience in evaluation of evidence based practice, audit, and benchmarking
• Experience of service development and service planning
• Experience of supporting and supervising less experienced staff
• Experience of working in the acute setting
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency

Desirable

• Advanced post-graduate training in dysphagia
• FEES/VF competency
• Tracheostomy competency
• Experience of working in the community

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• Excellent presentation skills both written and verbal.
• Well-established negotiation, problem solving and conflict resolution skills
• Demonstrate leadership ability
• Demonstrated NUH Trust values

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

• To independently provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy assessment, formulation, intervention and advice service for individuals, their families, and MDT professionals, using highly specialist knowledge underpinned by current evidence-based practice
• Ability to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options, based on well-established knowledge of a broad range of assessments and a range of appropriate specialist therapeutic interventions
• Ability to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
• Assess and manage risk in own area including identifying clinical risks and carry out MDT Risk assessments as appropriate
• Provides and contributes to the analysis of information and data such as caseload statistics, outcomes, activities, contacts, referral patterns

Planning and organisation skills

Essential

• Plans, manages and prioritises own specialist caseload and those of others
• Well organised and able to prioritise a high turnover caseload
• Effective delegation and time management skills
• Plans, organises and delivers in service training and clinical education of students
• Ensures appropriate clinical and profession-specific supervision arrangements in place for staff within remit

Physical skills

Essential

• Able to undertake SLT inventions in a busy ward-based environment
• Able to use computer keyboard, relevant computer programmes including the inputting of data

Other requirements specific to the role

Essential

• Able to travel to required areas within and beyond the Trust
• Car driver

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Queen's Medical Centre

Derby Road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

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