Specialist Speech and Language Therapist
Would you like to enhance your specialist skills with acute adult in-patients, plus the option to work with out-patients, in a service with a wide range of development opportunities as part of a supportive SLT team based at Salisbury District Hospital? This full time and fixed term post is to cover a maternity leave until October 2025, although opportunities to extend the contract may arise. This post can be tailored to either a current Band 6 Specialist SLTs looking to extend skills and experience as detailed in this advert, or the job description and person specification can be adapted to an experienced Band 5 SLT ideally with experience working in an NHS adult setting. Newly qualified SaLTs with relevant NHS placement experience are welcome to make contact with us too.
Qualifications required include a degree in Speech & Language Therapy, and ideally postgraduate training (or qualification) in adult dysphagia. Registration with the Health & Care Professions Council. Membership of the Royal College of SLT is desirable.
Postgraduate experience includes autonomous assessment, diagnosis and treatment of adults with swallowing and communication impairments from a wide range of acquired neurological conditions, ideally in an in-patient setting. The applicants must be flexible, be able to use initiative well, have effective caseload management and good clinical decision-making skills.
Main duties of the job
Work would be across a range of 18 acute wards and units (general medical, surgical, & elderly), with responsibility to manage patient assessment & treatment decisions, and ensure excellent liaison with SLT and MDT colleagues.
You would contribute to the development of the SLT team, including student supervision, NQP supervision, and in house CPD. You would be involved in wider hospital initiatives such as improving MDT working in specific areas (e.g. on the new elderly ward, in-patient PD or Stroke, mouthcare, and SLT Link Nurse recruitment and training) as well as being involved in training a wide range of hospital staff in communication and swallowing.
The SLT team embraces new ways of working and has worked hard to be at the forefront of helpful and emerging technology. Therefore our patients have good access to a range of instrumental dysphagia investigations for swallow assessments and instrumental devices for treatment. For patients with communication disorders, we have a broad range of computer based therapy available, and quick access to unlimited AAC.
We feel strongly that it is important to provide our SLT team members with as much training and development as we can and as needed, and as a small team we meet often. We thrive on an ethos of sharing our learning, being supportive to each other, and being helpful and flexible at work when needed.
Job responsibilities
The hours available are 37.5 hours per week. Applicants wanting less part time hours per week are welcome to apply, but priority will be given to ensure service provision. Recently qualified applicants seeking a Band 5 role are also welcome to apply, but priority will be given to those with the relevant experience to undertake the role independently. Please make contact with us if you are unsure whether to apply so we can help and guide you.
Person Specification
Clinical Experience
* Several years working as qualified SLT working independently with adult patients
* Competency in and experience of independently assessing and treating adult dysphagia
* Experience of assessing and treating adults with acquired communication disorders
* Experience of a wide range of adult acquired neurological disorders
* Experience of working well with other professionals on acute wards
* Experience of instrumental assessment in dysphagia
* Experience of working in an NHS adult setting
* Understanding demands of working in a busy acute setting
* Demonstrating EBP and effective treatment
* Experience of providing training to other SLTs and Health Care colleagues
Qualifications
* Degree in Speech & Language Therapy
* Registration with HCPC
* High standard of spoken and written English language
* Postgraduate training in instrumental dysphagia assessments
* Postgraduate training in adult acquired & acute disorders
* Postgraduate training in instrumental and computer-based treatments
* Member of RCSLT
Clinical Decision Making
* Able to manage own caseload effectively
* Able to make decisions in complex cases
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.
£29,970 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata if part time
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