Specialist Speech Therapist

Job overview

We’re excited to offer a brand-new role to join our small, specialist Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) team working across the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital (RJAH) and the Midland Centre for Spinal Injuries.

Working alongside our SLT clinical lead for spinal cord injuries, you’ll provide assessment and intervention for both communication and dysphagia across a range of settings, including the general medical wards, HDU, spinal injury unit, and outpatient clinics (voice, general and neuro). You’ll also contribute to our muscle team, offering a varied workload and plenty of opportunities to develop specialist skills.

We’re committed to supporting your development, with training provided for the management of spinal cord injury patients and tracheostomy management. You’ll also receive ongoing support from our wider voice team, with regular clinical and managerial supervision, CPD sessions, whole team meetings, and access to our broad health and wellbeing offer.

If you’re interested in this role, we would welcome an informal visit if you'd like to find out more. Please contact the team on 01743 261153 or 01691 404605 to arrange this.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will work as a specialist autonomous practitioner to perform assessment of complex patients with diverse presentations. To use specialist clinical reasoning to diagnose/interpret and then develop, deliver, and adapt individualized treatment plan for patients within a specialist clinical area.
• To participate as appropriate in own professional clinical area out of hours / weekend and the Therapy collective major incident response rota providing high quality patient care and specialist advice to medical and nursing staff.
• To work closely with all appropriate multidisciplinary teams (MDT) and agencies to maximise safe and timely patient flow.
• To assess patients understanding of treatment offered, gain consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment as outlined in the Trust’s Consent guidelines.
• To ensure that contemporaneous treatment records, discharge summaries and activity data are maintained in accordance with Trust and Professional standards.
• To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload and where appropriate other members of the team, to ensure the needs of the service are met, readjusting plans as situations and priorities change.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.