Due to staff movement, we can offer this exciting opportunity to join our acute team at the Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil.

In this role you will also provide sessional cover at our community hospital site Ysbyty Cwm Cynon Hospital in Mountain Ash and Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda in Tonypandy on an as needed basis.

Our acute service has a well deserved reputation for excellent patient centred care and goal setting as well as a joined up MDT.

You will offer mentoring and clinical supervision to your Band 5 and Band 4 colleagues.

Main duties of the job

Our acute service has a well deserved reputation for excellent patient centred care and goal setting as well as a joined up MDT.

You will offer mentoring and clinical supervision to your Band 5 and Band 4 colleagues.

You will also have the opportunity of developing competencies in instrumental assessment. Our practitioner led VFS clinic runs weekly at Prince Charles Hospital.

You will be expected to work flexibly where required to support the general medical service depending on overall service demands. This flexibility is reciprocal across the acute service on site. You will also have the opportunity to refer to and observe FEES assessments on site.

We are a friendly, supportive and cohesive team and within CTMUHB there are plenty of opportunities for clinical supervision, CPD and development as well as a strong priority placed on staff wellbeing.

You will be offered regular supervision by your Band 7 line manager and will work closely with the Professional Manager for Adult Acute Services.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

About us

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.

We live by our core values:

• We listen, learn and improve
• We treat everyone with respect
• We all work together as one team

We are a proud local employer around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification

Qualifications and knowledge

Essential

• Speech & Lang Therapy Degree
• Member of HCPC
• Significant post-grad training in stroke
• Post-grad training in dysphagia

Desirable

• RCSLT dysphagia accredited training
• post-grad training in VFS
• Experience of training, teaching and supervising others

Experience

Essential

• Significant post-grad expereince in adult services
• Expereince in performing complex assessments
• Experience of working with support workers/TIs

Desirable

• Expereince of working with aquired neurological disorders
• Experience of running support and therapy groups for patients
• Experience of partnership working with other agencies

Aptitude, Abilities and Skills

Essential

• Able to analyse complex assessment information for complex cases, make complex decisions
• Excellent interpersonal skills including listening, counselling, empathy

Desirable

• Experience of teaching others
• Skills in analysing and communicating highly complex assessment information

Personal qualities

Essential

• Knowledge of clinical goverance issues
• Knowledge of specific treatmnet and assessmnet tools

Desirable

• Understanding of National stroke ploicy
• Knowledge of assessments used by MDT

Employer details

Employer name

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Address

Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda Hospital

Partridge Road

Tonypandy

CF40 2LX

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

110-AHP266-1224