Bank Band 7 Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

• Experience

  In depth knowledge of current good practice and recent national research in relation to speech and language therapy

• Experience

  In depth knowledge of child development

• Experience

  Specialist knowledge and experience of a wide range of therapeutic interventions for children and young people

• Experience

  Specialist knowledge of a wide range of assessment tools relevant to a broad range of needs in paediatric population

• Experience

  Specialist knowledge and understanding around SEND

• Experience

  Evidence of advanced training in specialist clinical area

• Experience

  Experience of working as part of a professional team and multidisciplinary team

• Experience

  Skilled in risk management

• Experience

  Knowledge of clinical governance

• Experience

  Experience of presenting complex information to staff and senior management

• Experience

  Experience of implementing changes in service design and delivery both profession specific and in a multidisciplinary environment

• Experience

  Understand legal responsibilities of the profession, and health and social care delivery

• Experience

  Knowledge of NSFs, local government, and health policies and procedures, safeguarding adults

• Experience

  Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning skills

• Experience

  Experience of managing patients with a range of complex conditions

• Experience

  Experience in specialist assessment relevant to your specialist field

• Experience

  Clear evidence of high level of professional skills within a specialist health or social care setting

• Experience

  Experience of safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children

• Experience

  High level of knowledge of a broad range of relevant conditions and proven experience of delivering evidence-based practice

• Experience

  Knowledge of the clinical guidelines, and experience of implementing these recommendations in practice

• Experience

  Experience of involvement in audit

• Experience

  Experienced in the use of IT to include spread sheets and word

• Experience

  Proven presentation skills

• Experience

  Demonstrate effective communication skills and experiences of using these with children, young people and families

• Experience

  Knowledge and experience of gaining meaningful feedback from children, young people and families voices and inform meaningful change

• Experience

  Experience of working in a person-centred way which shows you can demonstrate values that are important to children, young people and families

• Experience

  Knowledge and understanding of what children, young people and families feel is important to them and their lives

• Qualifications

  BSc or Diploma in Speech and Language

• Qualifications

  State registration current HCPC registration

• Qualifications

  Evidence of relevant CPD maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant clinical area of expertise and/or postgraduate qualification

• Specific Skills

  Ability to organise and prioritise service and own workload

• Specific Skills

  Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with patients and carers presenting with emotional, agitated or challenging behaviour

• Specific Skills

  To deal sensitively with patients and relatives who have high levels of distress, anxiety and challenging behaviour

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  Ability to manage conflict

• Specific Skills

  To be able to demonstrate advanced speech and language therapy assessment and treatments skills

• Specific Skills

  To use excellent manual handing skills

• Specific Skills

  Ability to maintain intense concentration on and active engagement with, all aspects of children/young people and families management for prolonged periods, often in busy, noisy environments and with frequent interruptions

• Specific Skills

  Ability to deal with and process emotionally distressing information

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  Ability to carry out assessments and treatments with children who may have severe physical, cognitive, behavioural and sensory impairment and poor mobility with frequent intense physical effort on a daily basis e.g. handling of heavy body parts

• Specific Skills

  The use of highly developed therapeutic handling skills, manual techniques and facilitation of movement

• Specific Skills

  Carrying equipment on a daily basis. This will involve lifting heavy and awkward shapes, including getting the equipment in/out of a car

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  Ability to be mobile across Devon to complete community visits and attend meetings

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  Work alone in environment assessing and managing risk

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  Clinical workload involves community visits and lone working

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  Ensuring the safety of less-experienced staff in these settings

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  Ability to work in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers

• Specific Skills

  To deal sensitively with patients and relatives that have high levels of distress anxiety and aggression that may be caused by pain, behavioural, cognitive or physical impairment

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  Imparting information concerning diagnosis and poor prognosis of physical recovery to patients and their relatives. This may involve informing patients that they may be unable to achieve their previous functional level, or challenging beliefs about perceived level of disability

• Specific Skills

  Requirement for prolonged periods of intense concentration (to analyse complex information e.g. during assessments of up to 90 minutes length - taking in depth patient history, movement analysis and teaching clinical skills)

• Specific Skills

  Deal with frequent interruptions through the day (at work or via mobile phone)

• Specific Skills

  In some circumstances the work pattern may be unpredictable and frequently interrupted e.g. responding to telephone communication from other members of medical, nursing, health and social care professionals and professional team and acute unscheduled clinical circumstances during a working day