Job Summary
We are looking for experienced and enthusiastic speech and language therapists to work as part of the wards multi-disciplinary teams and join our established trust wide mental health SLT team. We are looking for highly motivated and creative individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
We are part of a wider network of SLTs based throughout LSCFT who form a virtual team of experienced and supportive therapists. We have a sound professional leadership structure through which we offer: clinical and professional supervision, specialist support by experienced senior staff, continuing professional development and membership of both a Trust wide professional forum and our Mental Health SLT clinical excellence network.
This role will give the successful applicants opportunities to work within specialist inpatient services to support adults with mental health conditions. We work with adults with communication and/or swallowing difficulties, using evidence-based pathways to support standardized best practice, covering the needs of this client group. We have positive regard for service users and aim to work in partnership with them to offer person-centered, quality, and equitable care.
The wards are based across several sites; therefore, access to transport will be needed.
Main Duties of the Job
1. The post holder will work within the MDT and be responsible for the wards caseloads and offer assessment, treatment, planning, and delivery of evidence-based highly specialized speech and language intervention across mental health wards.
2. To provide a dysphagia and speech, language and communication needs service.
3. To identify audit/research/quality improvement opportunities, initiating, designing and implementing agreed projects as required.
4. To lead/contribute to training and development programmes relating to the field of expertise, delivering to other professionals.
5. To actively participate in the delivery of the ward objectives, and support implementation of the Care Quality Commission requirements and regulatory standards.
6. To work within the wider SLT mental health speech and language therapies team to share best practice, coordinate projects, progress clinical developments and coordinate cover arrangements for wards during leave.
About Us
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time, and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications Essential
* Degree or master's degree in Speech and Language Therapy
* Current professional registration with HCPC as Speech and Language Therapist and responsibility for maintaining this registration
* Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise (Mental Health, autism).
* Masters or short courses, to master's level or equivalent
Knowledge Essential
* In-depth knowledge relevant to the post including dysphagia
* Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research governance.
* In-depth understanding of relevant current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs through publication of documents.
* Knowledge and appreciation in the assessment and management of risk including lone working risks - policy and procedure.
* Change management skills
Experience Essential
* Treatment of a broad range of speech, language and communication, and dysphagia conditions relating to clinical specialty
* Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
* Evidence of leading and implementing clinical change
* Supervision and/or mentoring of staff/students.
* Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.
Skills and Abilities Essential
* Dysphagia skills aligned to the RCSLT Dysphagia competency framework to practice as an autonomous dysphagia practitioner
* Ability to communicate highly complex pathologies and diagnostic reasoning to all levels in the medical and non-medical field at the appropriate level.
* Sound knowledge of psycho-social problems and ability to understand how SLCN can impact on behaviours that challenge
* Experience of stakeholder negotiation and persuasion skills.
* Problem solving/Decision making in relation to clinical practice.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer Details
Employer Name: Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
Address:
Restart & Recovery Blackburn Inpatients (25-65)
Duxbury Ward
Chorley
PR7 1PP
Employer's Website: https://www.lscft.nhs.uk/
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