Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist - Paeds/Neonates
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team in a part-time 3 days a week Band 7 SLT post working within our paediatric and neonates service! We hope to fill this vacancy with a passionate and highly motivated individual. As an autonomous practitioner, you will be responsible for the provision of specialist, evidence-based SLT assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of paediatric patients across the BHRUT SLT service including NICU. This will include education and training to patients, carers, and other MDT members. You will work alongside another Band 7 SLT to improve and develop our paediatrics and neonates service. We pride ourselves on being a friendly and innovative team where service development is driven at every level, including the chance to further develop our paediatric videofluoroscopy service. At BHRUT, we can offer a variety of opportunities to develop skills in neonatal intensive care, special care baby unit, and children's wards as well as non-clinical skills like supervision, leadership, and teaching to the wider multi-disciplinary team. Applicants can be considered for the option of a development post from a 6 to 7.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment, and advice to inpatients for NICU, SCBU infants and ward-based inpatients who present with feeding/swallowing difficulties.
2. To work alongside other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to give highly specialist guidance, advice, and education to on matters relating to your specialist area.
3. Provide leadership for your team (in conjunction with the Clinical Lead) in planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the Speech and Language Therapy service provided to patients within your area.
Person Specification
Education/Qualifications
* BSc/MSc in Speech and Language Therapy
* H.C.P.C. Registration.
* Leadership training.
Experience/Knowledge
* Proven clinical experience in the relevant field as a Band 6/7 in an acute hospital setting.
* Team leadership experience.
Skills/Abilities
* Sound knowledge of relevant areas of Dysphagia and early feeding development and/or communication difficulties.
* Evidence of service development experience e.g. project.
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.
Salary: £31,129 to £35,126 a year Per Annum Inclusive for 22.5hrs per week
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