Highly specialist speech and language therapist

Job overview

Do you love working with people with complex needs, and are passionate about championing and facilitating communication to support the transition from hospital through personalised care and support planning and enabling independence and quality of life? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 speech and language therapist to join the award winning Enhanced Practice in Care Homes (EPiC) Team in Hackney.

Working as part of a small dedicated multi-disciplinary team, the EPiC Speech and Language therapist works collaboratively within the 4 nursing homes in Hackney and following recent review is now recurrently funded.

Through proactive assessment for all new residents, and brief intervention the speech and language therapist supports residents and care teams to maximise the resident voice, enabling choice and quality of life through improving functional communication within the nursing homes for people with acquired communication disorders.

Please note closing date is indicative and post may close early if there are a high number of applicants.

Main duties of the job

Our vision is that high quality communication with residents throughout their stay will support the identification of individuals’ needs, wishes, culture, values, and beliefs to improve and enrich individualised care provision. Dysphagia assessment and management is provided by the local Homerton Adult Community Rehabilitation Team.

The post holder will work closely with the MDT, including the EPIC occupational therapist, physiotherapist, and care homes teams to identify individuals who would benefit from direct specialist communication intervention including development of individualised AAC.  Communication assessment will include the service user and their communication partners including the care home teams and inform personalised holistic care and support plans, and to facilitate a timely discussion all residents in a regular multi-disciplinary meeting. The capacity, culture and operational processes of each nursing home will vary and may therefore require different engagement and approach

The post holder will have access to clinical supervision, CPD and support from the wider Homerton SLT team and ACRT, including opportunities to maintain clinical dysphagia skills and development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.