Acute Team Lead Speech and Language Therapist (SLT)

Job overview

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

For further details on this vacancy please contact Hayley Sorensen, Operational Manager or Alex Harper Head of Profession 0300 422 8105.

This post requires the post holder to be able to undertake all statutory and mandatory training and post holders must be able to undertake physical interventions. Fitness for physical intervention will be assessed by Occupational Health.

Main duties of the job

Clinically the role is diverse with service delivery to a range of wards including neurology, oncology and respiratory. There will be the opportunity to work with patients with tracheostomies and to hold a specialist clinical caseload. Access to FEES and videofluoroscopy is available. You will be responsible for managing the day to day operations of our acute general medicine team. In addition, you will provide line management, supervision and service development for our inpatient services and hold responsibility for the ongoing development of the whole SLT team in dysphagia management.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To lead the complex care inpatient Speech and Language Therapy team supporting service provision and embedding best practice in the acute setting.
• To independently manage a highly specialist and complex caseload; including screening, in depth assessment, differential diagnosis, treatment, monitoring and review of adults with acute, chronic and complex acquired disorders of swallowing, voice and communication.
• To work closely with the Operational Manager and Head of Profession for SLT in the ongoing development of the SLT service in the inpatient setting.
• To work closely with the inpatient team and the ward teams in promoting information and education sharing to enhance MDT working
• To evaluate and develop appropriate documentation associated with the general inpatient service, including, but not limited to care pathways, guidelines, policies and processes relating to the general in-patient service.
• To actively participate in the SLT team providing videofluoroscopy, Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallow (FEES) clinics and tracheostomy care in the acute setting. Or willingness to undertake training.
• To manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to competency levels of other therapists.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.