8-5 Monday-Friday- Flexibility within

• To work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promoting best practice and undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.

To build up and maintain key relationships with referrers including GPs, acute providers, Bedded Services, District Nurses, Wheelchair Services and other services across CLCH to facilitate appropriate referrals.

To be responsible for the supervision of rehabilitation assistants and speech and language therapy students.

To work mainly in the patients' homes but also in a variety of settings including clinics, residential care homes, continuing care homes and community centers, it may entail individual and group therapy interventions.

To support personal and professional development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.

Main duties of the job

To communicate information related to complex conditions from assessment through treatment and discharge to clients, carers and families.

To demonstrate excellent communication skills to communicate with and support the communication of patients who have complex and varied communication difficulties as a result of their neurological event.

To motivate and facilitate informed consent through advanced communication skills -and to be able to gain co-operation for treatment where there may be significant barriers to understanding such as aphasia.

To demonstrate skill in managing conflict across a range of situations in a verbal, written, formal and informal manner.

To work with other members of the multi-professional team to run therapy groups on an as-needed basis.

To develop, update and present SLT therapy-specific patient and carer education presentations to clients and carers.

About us

Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!

We can offer you:

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

To have a full look at our benefits and what it's like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits

Job description

Job responsibilities

To undertake multidisciplinary neurological assessments, to be able to identify the needs of the clients and to work closely with the MDT on joint goals. These clients will present with a variety of complex neurological conditions, but with an emphasis on those recovering from stroke.

To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of clients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings

To carry out specialist neuro-physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating and swallowing

To monitor all aspects of the interaction of significant others with clients. In particular to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication

To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to clients and their families within clearly defined care plans and based on SMART goals agreed with clients and their families.

Person Specification

Education/Qualification

Essential

• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• License to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists.
• Evidence of registration with the HCPC
• Evidence of successful completion of specialist short courses relevant to speech/language/communication issues for adults

Desirable

• Counselling skills training
• Other appropriate courses relevant to the case-load

Experience

Essential

• Appropriate experience of working with an adult case-load, including work with broad range of acquired neurological conditions including complex dysphagia
• Experience of working with adults requiring home enteral tube feeding
• Experience of working with relatives and carers.
• Experience in supervision of junior staff/support workers

Desirable

• Team work, in a multidisciplinary context.
• Experience in supervision of junior staff/support workers
• Experience of provision of training packages

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of stroke and neurological and degenerative illnesses and their management, national policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of current National and local policies related to area of work
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written. Good auditory discrimination skills and ability to transcribe speech phonetically

Desirable

• Membership of relevant Special Interest Group

Employer details

Employer name

Central London Community Health Trust

Address

Harpenden Memorial Hospital

Carlton Rd, Harpenden

Hertfordshire

AL5 4TA

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