Are you compassionate, caring and communicative? Would you like to work at one of the Countries leading teaching hospitals? If so, NHS Professionals are currently recruiting for an Advanced Speech and Language Therapist to work at Southampton General Hospital in Child Health to join the bank. Ideally you will have worked as SLT previously with Paediatrics.
The role can offer flexible hours (Monday-Friday).
Being on the bank at University Hospital Southampton gives you full flexibility on both when you work and on what wards.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust provides services to around 1.9 million people across Southampton and South Hampshire and with their specialist services including neurosciences, cardiac services, and children's intensive care unit they care for more than 3.7 million across Southern England and the Channel Islands. The trust is also a major centre for teaching and research in association with the University of Southampton and partners including the Medical Research Council and Welcome Trust.
UHS gained foundation trust status in 2011. Every year the team of 11,500 treats around 150,000 day and inpatients including 50,000 emergency admissions.
Main duties of the job
a) Provides advanced communication, eating, drinking and swallowing advice for a complex specialist caseload in defined clinical areas.
b) Working as an autonomous practitioner assesses, treats, and manages a specialist caseload, providing expert speech and language therapy advice and support.
c) Identify and lead service and policy improvement, projects, audit and research and disseminate results and best practice through publication and presentation.
d) Support the clinical and professional development of junior speech and language therapy staff and students.
About us
Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.
Career Progression: Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.
Work-life Balance: Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave.
Opportunity & Access: Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.
Job responsibilities
1. Provide a highly specialist, high quality, evidence-based, effective speech and language therapy service within defined clinical areas.
2. Attend ward rounds/multidisciplinary meetings/case conferences in order to provide expert advice to multidisciplinary teams regarding provision of appropriate communication, eating, drinking and/or swallowing expertise integrating assessment, assisting diagnosis and influencing treatment decisions for patients and carers.
3. Independently formulate, deliver, monitor and adjust accordingly, individualised communication, eating, drinking and swallowing treatment plans, recognising limitations of treatment options, and when to refer to other disciplines or to seek expert advice.
4. Make clinical judgements and decisions based on individual assessments, clinical condition and other parameters including the environment, and select and evaluate appropriate treatment plans including recommending appropriate communication strategies and diet texture modification products.
5. Provide complex communication, eating, drinking and swallowing counselling to patients/carers offering appropriate advice and reassurance.
6. Effectively negotiate and communicate speech and language therapy goals with patients/carers.
7. Communicate and liaise with multidisciplinary teams to ensure patients communication, eating, drinking and swallowing needs are being met and patients can actively engage in their care.
8. Where necessary, provide information and education to clinicians, patients, and carers.
9. Interpret and apply national clinical guidelines to ensure that speech and language therapy treatment enables patients to achieve optimal improvement in quality of life.
10. Simplify complex information regarding communication, eating, drinking and swallowing issues for patients and their carers, and develop appropriate training interventions using a variety of methods as part of a structured programme for identified patients.
11. Provide an interface and advocate for patients with communication, eating, drinking and swallowing difficulties in particular where patients have difficulty communicating their needs and wishes.
12. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, being professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of professional activities working to agreed local, national, and professional standards.
13. Plan and prioritise own caseload adjusting to meet emerging priorities and ensuring the timely maintenance of appropriate records.
14. Participate in planned and unplanned clinical cover as required to support the wider service.
15. Promote communication, eating, drinking and swallowing related activities to ensure that an effective patient focused service is available, and that speech and language therapy is integrated within the healthcare agenda.
16. Provide clinical supervision and professional support to identified members of the speech and language therapy team, carrying out appraisals and participating in the recruitment of assigned staff.
17. Participate in the planning, supervision, training, and assessment of students.
18. Contribute to the development, implementation, delivery, and evaluation of training programmes for a variety of healthcare professionals.
19. Participate in relevant projects/audits/service evaluation/research to ensure delivery of best practice and effective service provision.
20. Provide input and feedback on service developments in speech and language therapy services.
21. Review service capacity and contribute to operation planning to resolve capacity issues in conjunction with service leads.
22. Present complex speech and language therapy information to large groups of people e.g. university presentations or conferences.
23. Contribute expert speech and language therapy opinion in initiating, developing, and reviewing speech and language therapy related standards, guidelines, protocols, and resources.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Degree or equivalent in Speech and Language Therapy.
* HCPC (Health and Care professions Council) registered speech and language therapist.
* Evidence of commitment to relevant ongoing CPD and development in relevant areas.
* Member of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) and relevant specialist groups.
Experience
* Evidence of relevant speech and language therapy knowledge and expertise with recent experience demonstrating this.
* Evidence of post-graduate training in relevant speciality.
* Experience of supervising staff.
* Experience and involvement with training.
* Ability to communicate complex information fluently, confidently and effectively to a diverse range of people: e.g. with patients, carers, managers and other health care professionals.
* Ability to demonstrate a practical and sensitive approach and flexibility in working style when applying clinical judgement to complex clinical issues.
* Ability to create rapport and professionally manage relationships with colleagues, patients and carers and the emotional challenges this presents.
* Worked as SLT in Paediatric setting.
* Experience of leading or co-ordinating audit or research work.
* Clinical supervisory skills training.
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.
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