Advanced Practice Speech and Language Therapist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

To provide comprehensive specialist Speech and Language Therapy Services to Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Trust as part of the Speech and Language Therapy Team. The post holder will have responsibility for:

Working independently as an Advanced Practitioner in Speech and language Therapy (SaLT) ensuring the continued service of assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with specialist speech, communication and swallowing difficulties.

Working as part of the specialist multi-disciplinary teams across cardiothoracic services, contributing professional expertise in the management of patients with complex communication and swallowing difficulties.

Be experienced in Instrumental assessments including Fibreoptic Endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) and Videofluroscopy alongside completion of tracheostomy competencies.

Delivering training to relevant staff, carers and other professionals as required.

Identifying and accessing appropriate CPD to a level that meets RCSLT, HCPC and service requirements.

To ensure the service continues to develop to meet the needs of the patients, the Trust and the Health Professional Council using education, audit and research tools.

Actively participating in service improvement and audit.

Line management of staff and support with student placements.

Deputise for the Speech and Language Therapy team leader.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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