Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist for Inpatient Therapy

Job overview

We are seeking a clinical lead for the Speech & Language Therapy service across Inpatient wards with a focus on respiratory and critical care.

The role will involve advancing clinical practice in this area of work and taking a lead in evolving and embedding best practice within the adult speech and language therapy team.

Main duties of the job

• To manage the acute caseload, including your own clinical caseload and appropriately delegating work to others  within the MDT to deliver the service required.

• To perform specialist assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex       conditions.
• To implement, evaluate and modify highly complex, individualised care/ interventions.
• To be involved in best interest and mental capacity assessments as required.
• To lead development and implement evidence based protocols and standards of care.
• To provide support and supervision to others (both for inpatient and community  colleagues where required), and supervision of student(s) on clinical placement.
• To be involved in MDT events, including workforce development and training, meetings and    conferences

Contribute to the VFS rota and be given opportunities to develop skills in this area, as well as contributing to the development of a FEES service

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Work within the Inpatient therapy service leading, co-ordinating and developing effective clinical interventions within the speciality of Respiratory and critical care, in order to advance clinical practice in the team in line with current evidence base.
• Manage autonomously a clinical workload of patients / clients at a highly specialist level, assessing and treating patients and maintaining clinical records.
• Have highly specialist assessment and treatment skills in the areas listed but not limited to:
• Swallowing disorders
• Instrumental assessment
• Assessment for suitability for augmentative communication
• Speech disorders
• Language disorders
• Apply evidence based knowledge within the highly specialist clinical area acquired through in depth experience and academic study to a highly specialist post graduate level.
• Have the ability to work flexibly and contribute to changing working patterns including bank holidays and 7 day working as required. We currently provide a Mon-Fri service. A full overview of the job descriptions and main responsibilities can be found in the Job description.