The Speech and Language Therapist will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team, to meet the needs of clients referred to Mildmay Mission Hospital, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.
They will provide advanced specialist Speech Therapy (SLT) input to clients referred to the team.
The successful candidate will provide management supervision, clinical leadership to SLT students, SLT volunteers, and any junior SLT posts should service development necessitate their recruitment.
Main duties of the job
Able to provide a highly specialist comprehensive specialist assessment (including differential diagnosis), advice and treatment, and information regarding clients with communication and/or swallowing disorders, ensuring full client involvement, underpinned by a broad range of specialist knowledge and experience.
Able to use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgments for case management.
Able to provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.
Able to demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, thereby ensuring that practice is continually updated.
Able to adapt practice to meet individual patients' circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
To be accountable for own professional action and recognize own professional boundaries.
About us
Mildmay Mission Hospital is at the forefront of care and development of services in relation to complex HIV-related conditions for patients across the UK and step-down care for homeless patients across London.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, well-motivated Band 7 Speech & Language Therapist, looking for a challenge, committed to their professional development and wishes to participate in the delivery of excellent patient-focused care in a specialist multidisciplinary rehabilitation setting.
The Care Quality Commission rated us a good organization. Rehabilitation is our passion with a focus on neuro-cognitive impairment. We use a multidisciplinary (MDT) team approach to provide a range of holistic services to our patients and clients.
Job responsibilities
MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
To provide a highly specialist comprehensive specialist assessment (including differential diagnosis), advice and treatment, and information regarding clients with communication and/or swallowing disorders, ensuring full client involvement, underpinned by a broad range of specialist knowledge and experience.
To use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgments for case management.
To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes.
To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, thereby ensuring that practice is continually updated.
To adapt practice to meet individual patients' circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences.
To be accountable for own professional action and recognize own professional boundaries.
To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct to ensure quality of care.
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on different aspects of patients' communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.
To provide advice to non-specialists, specialists, and other professionals within the clinical field.
MDT Responsibilities:
To be a core member of the MDT attending weekly meetings and contributing to their goal setting.
To have a delegated caseload of patients, contributing to their MDT goal setting and planning.
To undertake key worker duties.
To collect accurate statistical information (using the iCARE patient administration system to record statistics) and record accurate information on the therapy dependency sheets that are used to upload on the UK-ROC database.
Service Development Responsibilities:
Utilize rehabilitation and teaching skills to educate the diverse and multicultural population in a range of disease-specific therapeutic techniques, principles, and guidelines.
Use outcome measures as required and further develop these in partnership with others to ensure a high-quality service is delivered.
Ensure that quality standards relating to Speech Therapy are continually monitored and improved.
To actively identify areas of service innovation and development for the Speech Therapy service and work with the professional lead in developing this.
To ensure good working knowledge of national and local standards, and monitor quality through participation.
Education & Research Responsibilities:
Provide training and education programs as required in the form of tutorials and presentations.
Take an active role in developing in-service training programs and the supervision and training of students as appropriate.
To be leading on and producing audit in own area.
To be leading on and producing research in own area.
Keep abreast of evidence-based and best practice. Demonstrate the ability to critically evaluate current research and apply it to practice.
Ensure good working knowledge of national and local standards, and monitor quality through participation in clinical audit, research projects, and evaluation work as required.
Personal:
Maintain continuing professional and personal development by participating in regular in-service training, supervision, reflective practice, and attending study days and training, giving feedback to the team where appropriate to disseminate learning.
To maintain a portfolio of CPD that can be demonstrated to the Medical Director or external agencies.
To keep abreast of evidence-based and best practice and ensure an environment where all staff are encouraged to do this.
Maintain competency and proficiency in manual handling people and therapeutic manual handling.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Recognized Speech Therapy Degree
* Qualification or equivalent
* UK Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC) Registration
* Evidence of working at a level commensurate with master's level
* MSc qualification or working towards one
* Registered Member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
* Member of relevant Clinical Interest Group (HIV or neuro-rehab)
Experience
* Minimum of 6 years post-registration experience which demonstrates the competencies to meet the role requirements outlined in the JD
* Evidence of management of highly complex cases including complex manual handling issues
* Evidence of recent Continuing Professional and Personal Development including specialist short courses
* Experience of applying and interpreting standardized assessment to patient group
* Experience of undertaking risk assessment and risk management
* Experience of developing and delivering training packages
* Experience of working in an integrated health and social care team
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.
£54,320 to £60,981 a year pro rata per annum.
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