Do you have a passion for community working? Would you love to work with patients in their own homes, helping them to stay well, to optimise their swallowing and communication skills and to contribute to admission avoidance? Do you love working as part of an MDT to meet patient goals. Then this is the job for you!

Due to a newly created vacancy within the team, an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and innovative Speech and Language Therapist to join our friendly, hard working and patient-centred MDT team at Dewi Sant Hospital, Pontypridd.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the specialist SLT within a friendly MDT of AHPs, nurses and GPs. You will provide specialist domiciliary or remote care as appropriate to people with swallowing and communication difficulties, directly referred by the GP. You will participate in weekly MDT meetings and contributing to overall service delivery and improvement. You will offer mentoring and clinical supervision to your junior colleagues as required.

You will also have access to videofluoroscopy and FEES local services to instrumentally assess and rehabilitate your service users' swallowing difficulties. We encourage you to accompany these appointments for your won professional development as well as optimising joined up care.

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 /knowlege Essential

• Speech & Lang Therapy Degree
• Member of HCPC
• 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
• Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for adult clients.
• Experience of working with support workers/TIs

Desirable

• Expereince of working with aquired neurological disorders
• Experience of community working
• Experience of partnership working with other agencies
• Experience of partnership working with social services, primary, secondary and voluntary sector care

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

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

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