Job Summary
Are you a newly qualified Speech and Language Therapist (Part Time) looking to gain experience in an adult acute setting and achieve dysphagia competencies? Due to internal promotion, an opportunity has arisen to join our team within our Band 5 rotations for 4 days a week.
We have five 6-month rotations which are on a preference basis. Rotations include Acute Medical (Cardio-Respiratory, Care of the Elderly), Neurosciences, Acute Stroke, and Early Supported Discharge for Stroke.
You will have regular access to supervision and training, including peer supervision, and there is encouragement to do joint sessions with any SLT across specialties to share specialist skills and knowledge. We offer in-house dysphagia training for NQPs and provide a robust objective assessment service for our patients with excellent access to VFSS and FEES clinics.
As a Band 5 at BHRUT, you will experience a wide variety of clinical specialties but also develop non-clinical skills in quality improvement, training provision to the wider multi-disciplinary team, and supervision.
Applications from students who are about to graduate soon will be considered. If this sounds like an opportunity for you, please contact Clinical Lead SLT Virginia Puno (virginiapuno@nhs.net) with any questions.
Main Duties of the Job
The post holder will be responsible for the specialist assessment, management, and treatment of patients/clients with communication and/or swallowing impairment as a result of a range of conditions depending on the specifics of the rotation.
To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working with access to direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of formal training, joint working, clinical reasoning sessions, and peer review. Access to advice and support from senior Speech and Language Therapists is available as required; clinical work is routinely evaluated.
To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, demonstrating time management and planning skills.
To supervise performance, as directed by senior Speech and Language Therapists, of assistants and students; working with the senior Speech and Language Therapist to ensure the standards of practice of the department are met.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* Degree in Speech & Language Therapy
* HCPC Registration
Skills/Abilities
* Experience working in an acute hospital-based setting within an MDT, either as a student SLT or as a newly-qualified SLT
Desirable
* Dysphagia experience or competencies
Experience/Knowledge
* Previous B5 SLT experience or experience working as a SLT assistant or volunteer in the relevant sector
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Speech & Language Therapy, Romford, RM7 0AG
Employer's Website: https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/
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