Adult SLT band 5 post

Job overview

• WTE Adult SLT Band 5 Rotational Posts

This post would be suitable for both current Band 5’s and NQPs

The Ealing Community Partners, Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team, have reviewed our skill set and now require enthusiastic Band 5 Therapists, to be part of our friendly and supportive team.

We are a friendly and experienced, specialist community team of Band 8a, B7’s, B6, B5 roles and SLT Assistant’s, with a strong commitment to CPD. We offer excellent clinical and professional support and supervision, and access to relevant courses, internally and externally, to support you in developing your knowledge and skills.

The rotational posts will be located within the Community SLT service and the Inpatient SLT service at Clayponds Hospital. Clayponds Hospital is a 70 bedded rehabilitation hospital. There are 3 pathways of care that include: admission avoidance; elderly rehabilitation & Neuro/Stroke level 3 rehabilitation unit. To find out more about this provision, please visit: Rosemary ward.

Main duties of the job

You will have access to line management and clinical supervision via the Team leads to develop your NQP and dysphagia competencies; and will work closely with SLT Assistants and the wider SLT team, including the Band 8a Clinical Services Manager and the Band 7 Team Leads.

The successful candidates will ideally have, some knowledge, skill and experience of working with both dysphagia and communication patients as a result of Neurological disorders including stroke, progressive degenerative disorders, care of the elderly and dementia.

The successful candidates will be an active member of the multi-professional team and work to ensure its continued development. Emotional resilience; good communication, liaison and time-management skills are required to manage the caseload effectively, in addition to being forward thinking and enthusiastic.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

CLINICAL

To use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties for patients as inpatients; out-patients, via telehealth if appropriate or in their own homes.

To provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning, and develop and implement appropriate interventions/rehabilitation to be delivered in a variety of settings.

To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.

To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals reflecting specialist knowledge.

To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management.

To ensure that patients and/or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and wherever possible facilitate patients with communication and/or cognitive difficulties to participate in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes.

To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and/or swallowing difficulties to maximise the patient’s skills and reduce clinical risk.

To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies.

To adapt practice to meet individual patients’ circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of patient’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.

To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of adult neurology (including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, and dementia).

To demonstrate some knowledge and use of high and low technology communication aids with a range of patients.

To manage risk when dealing with people who live at home and who have swallowing difficulties, to promote choice by providing information about the risks and to contribute to moral and ethical decision making about oral and/or alternative feeding choices.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.