The NELFT Children’s Feeding and Dietetic service includes the feeding team, which comprises a range of different professions: Dietitian, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, and Specialist Children’s Nursing, along with team assistant and administrator support.
Due to staff relocation, the feeding team is seeking to recruit a part-time, experienced dysphagia speech therapist to join the team and support children (0-19) with physical feeding difficulties.
There are opportunities for remote/flexible working within NELFT's commitment to staff wellbeing and agile working. All team members are co-located in the same office, which helps support successful collaborative team working.
While the service hopes to recruit a therapist experienced in managing both over and under one’s, we recognize that many experienced therapists may not have completed their under 1 competencies. Support and training can be offered to help develop under 1 skills for the right applicant.
The feeding team is community-based (Wickford, Essex) and supports children living in Basildon, Brentwood, and Thurrock within the larger Mid and South Essex ICS. The feeding team has strong links to both the local acute, surrounding community, and tertiary teams.
We offer families support at home, in education settings, or in community clinics (face to face/virtually) and target our resources to meet the needs of the individual.
Probationary Period:
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently partway through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT:
NELFT places a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks, which will include mandatory training, systems training, and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process, new starters will have the opportunity to meet the executive team, senior managers, and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing, and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Fringe:
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £1,258 to a maximum of £2,122 p.a. pro rata for part time).
Assessment:
Assessment of swallowing function for solids and liquids, identify swallowing impairment and potential impact, assessment of oral skills whilst eating and drinking, assessment of parent-child interaction and child response to feeding, supporting and recommending onward referrals for instrumental assessment and/or services (i.e., ENT or Tertiary SLT for VFSS).
Intervention:
Manage eating risk by texture modification, manage drinking risk by fluid consistency modification, strategies to develop safe eating and drinking skills, management of risk feeding, interpretation of video fluoroscopy reports.
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