Job summary
This is a role for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist who has experience in neurological disorders and communication difficulties. We are looking for someone to provide highly specialised assessment and therapy for dysphagia and communication impairments to a wide range of adult clients with mental health diagnoses and complex conditions including acquired and progressive neurological conditions Huntington's disease, Parkinson's, and stroke.
Main duties of the job
Working on a rehab ward with up to 14 patients. This is an opportunity to work with longer stay inpatients to support individual rehab and be a part of a therapies team including Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physiotherapy and Psychology, as well as a wider MDT including Psychiatry and the nursing teams.
About us
The Priory purpose is to make a real and lasting difference for everyone we support through supporting our service users to 'Live Your Life'. Our values are:
Striving for excellence
Putting people first
Being positive
Acting with integrity
Being supportive
Our Grade II listed hospital building is set in extensive grounds, just off the M32 and less than three miles from the centre of Bristol, with free on-site parking. We offer 77 beds over seven wards, providing a wide range of services, including Psychiatric Intensive Care (PICU), eating disorders, acute care, rehab and recovery. Our collaborative environment fosters opportunities to gain experience in various services.
Priory Hospital Bristol offers calming and recovery focused inpatient treatment for service users as well as day care group and outpatient services. Personalised treatment programmes are delivered by our multidisciplinary team, specialising in the management and treatment of acute and complex mental health problems.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The post holder will:
Manage a complex caseload of patients autonomously with appropriate clinical and managerial supervision
Carry out assessment, treatment and outcome measurement of communication for people with complex mental health and/or neurological impairments
Carry out assessment and treatment for people with cognitive and physical swallowing disorders as a result of mental health and/or neurological impairments including implementation of risk feeding protocols where indicated
Develop individualised goals and treatment programmes alongside providing specialist Speech and Language Therapy advice to the wider multidisciplinary team
Work with people and their families to ensure goal are co-produced and client centred whilst managing their expectations as appropriate.
Have experience of managing a complex caseload autonomously
Essential criteria
Degree and Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
Current AHP with UK HCPC registration and RCSLT membership
Evidence of competence in managing dysphagic patients
Desirable criteria
Well established knowledge of a broad range assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
Evidence of relevant post-registration education and training in Stroke, Supervision
Member of a relevant Clinical Excellence Network
Post-graduate dysphagia qualification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Degree and Licence to Practise from the Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists
Desirable
2. Evidence of relevant post-registration education and training in Stroke, Supervision
3. Post-graduate dysphagia qualification
Experience
Essential
4. Current AHP with UK HCPC registration and RCSLT membership
5. Evidence of competence in managing dysphagic patients
Desirable
6. Well established knowledge of a broad range assessment tools relevant to the specialist client group
7. Member of a relevant Clinical Excellence Network