Job summary
South
Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust: B7, 0.8wte, 30hrs per week, permanent Highly Specialist Speech and Language
Therapist -Adult Team
You
will be vital to the delivery of our out-patient/community service across South
Tyneside and Sunderland. You will be based predominantly at Sunderland Royal
Hospital but will work within our team which covers South Tyneside and
Sunderland. You will provide clinical leadership as well as delivering a highly
specialist level clinical service.
You
will have significant skills and experience working in out-patient/community
settings. You will be skilled in supporting instrumental assessment clinics and
working with complex patients.
You
will want to develop your skills in our Trust and be part of a team that covers
all aspects of adult speech and language therapy work acute, out-patients,
community, head and neck, voice, upper airways, laryngectomy and stammering
which is great for learning and joined up, patient focussed work! You will
want to work to with us as we aim to provide high quality, safe, effective,
innovative care.
Main duties of the job
As
one of our Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapists, you will be
joining a well-established innovative team of Speech and Language Therapists
who work closely to provide a service across a range of community and
out-patient settings.
You
will take part in instrumental assessments eg VF/FEES clinics. You will be
passionate about patient centred care to support patients across the length of
their care pathway and ensure safe transfer between our acute and
community/out-patient service. You will be skilled in managing a complex, large
caseload and have experience of prioritising workload to manage demand and
capacity issues. You will have highly developed skills in assessment,
diagnostics and rehabilitation in across a full spectrum of communication and
swallowing disorders and also have skills in teaching/training others.
You
will be committed to team working and to developing other staff too. You will
support less experienced therapists through supervision, teaching and training.
You will be well supported to further extend your scope of practice within our
team.
The
Sunderland Speech and Language Therapy team has a strong research background
and you will be encouraged to develop your skills in this area to ensure we
translate innovation, audit and research outcomes into practice for improved
patient care and outcomes.
If
youd like to find out more, please contact
Sarah Talbot on 0191 5699009
About us
Please add your telephone number to your application form so we can contact you quickly if required.
One Team One Trust - There are many reasons to work at our Trust. From our commitment to putting people first to our accessible services and award winning teams. We have a passion for research, innovation and tackling inequalities. We are committed to respect, fairness and civility and promote a compassionate, caring and positive culture / working environment.
We welcome all applications irrespective of peoples race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion/belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy/maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups. Looking after our workforces health and wellbeing is a priority for us. We also provide access to high quality education, training, career progression and support. Flexible working is supported via our Flexible Working Policy.
The Trust employs around 8,746 people and provides a range of hospital services to a local community of around 430,000 residents. We also provide a range of more specialised services outside this area. We offer our staff outstanding benefits - Fitness Centre (SRH), libraries at both hospital sites, chaplaincy support and access to a Care Co-ordinator to help staff with childcare arrangements.If you use AI,
and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual recruitment process, we
may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To take a lead role in developing the out- patient therapy service for adults with acquired
communication and swallowing disorders. This includes planning intervention, maximising
capacity to meet demand, support safe care and to provide a greater variety of service
delivery models for patients to access.
To work across full range of settings and provide highly specialist assessments and
interventions including instrumental assessments eg , FEES, VF
To provide a highly specialist and comprehensive clinical therapy service to adults
(inpatients, outpatients and community home visits) with a wide range of acquired complex
swallowing and communication disorders.
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE
Job description
Job responsibilities
To take a lead role in developing the out- patient therapy service for adults with acquired
communication and swallowing disorders. This includes planning intervention, maximising
capacity to meet demand, support safe care and to provide a greater variety of service
delivery models for patients to access.
To work across full range of settings and provide highly specialist assessments and
interventions including instrumental assessments eg , FEES, VF
To provide a highly specialist and comprehensive clinical therapy service to adults
(inpatients, outpatients and community home visits) with a wide range of acquired complex
swallowing and communication disorders.
PLEASE REFER TO THE ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION FOR FULL DUTIES OF THE ROLE
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent time management, administrative, and organisational skills.
- The ability to work autonomously and actively within a team, within codes of
- practice and professional guidelines.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills in order to facilitate professional
- relationships with clients, carers, members of multi-disciplinary teams, and
- others.
- Highly developed communication skills (oral and written) enabling others to
- understand complex information and overcome barriers to understanding.
- Ability to carry out highly specialised assessment working with other
- professionals to make a differential diagnosis, prognosis, and
- management/intervention plan.
- Well -developed teaching, training, and presentation skills, in order to identify
- training needs, and devise and deliver training and education to other
- professionals and carers.
- Written skills for highly specialist report writing, policy and guidance writing
- Highly tuned observational, investigative, and analytical skills enabling
- interpretation of verbal and non-verbal messages within the context of the
- clients overall needs.
- Ability to frequently apply sustained and intense concentration when working
- with clients with severe and complex needs, in order to respond
- appropriately and record accurately.
- Counselling skills, including the ability to empathise, convey complex and
- sensitive information, and deal with emotional and/or distressing
- circumstances.
Desirable
- Competencies in FEES
-
- Leadership
- qualification
-
- Competencies
- Tracheostomy
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Pathology / Therapy or equivalent.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Significant post-graduate training and experience equivalent to Masters
- Level, working as a qualified SALT with adults with a wide range of acquired
- speech, language and swallowing disorders, with some time spent in a
- specialist role.
- Postgraduate Dysphagia qualification/training
- Post-registration education and experience equivalent to MSc level, e.g
- Advanced Dysphagia Training; Counselling Skills; Post-graduate study in
- aphasia, Leadership training
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery for both direct and
- indirect intervention eg group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy
- Highly specialist knowledge of acquired communication and swallowing in
- assessment, diagnosis, and therapy techniques with evidence of post
- graduate qualification and training at an equivalent level.
- Successful completion of a significant number of specialist short
- courses/self-study/training in the specialist area of work. Evidence of
- integration of this learning into clinical practice at a highly specialist level
- (e.gs., neuro-rehabilitation, stroke, dysphagia, voice, Lee Silverman Therapy
- Practitioner , counselling , neurolinguistics, cognitive- communication
- disorders, advanced videofluoroscopy interpretation, FEES analysis /
- interpretation, augmentative and/or alternative communication)
- Highly developed knowledge of current best practice in speech and language
- therapy provision to the specialist client group.
- Knowledge of range of potential pathways of care for acquired neurological
- disorders of communication and swallowing
- An in-depth knowledge of the range of health, social service, voluntary and
- private agencies relevant to specialism
- A working understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession and
- the associated code of ethics, including a commitment to non-discriminatory
- practice and compliance with data protection legislation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of different learning styles and training in clinical supervision
- Awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion issues impacting on speech
- and language therapy.
- An in-depth working understanding of the structure, policies, priorities, and
- functioning of the NHS.
Desirable
- Membership of Royal
- College of Speech and
- Language Therapy
- (RCSLT)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in adults with acquired speech, language
- and swallowing disorders with some time spent working with adults in a
- specialist role.
- Experience and highly developed knowledge of a range of highly specialist
- clinical procedures and therapy techniques.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery group therapy,
- individual therapy and consultancy
- Experience of collaborative working practice with SALT and other
- professionals.
- Experience of working within a variety of settings eg in patient acute,
- intermediate care, community rehabilitation.
- Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating training within the SALT
- department, and to other agencies including education, health, patients,
- carers, social services, private and voluntary sector.
- Experience of participation in activities to support the clinical governance
- agenda e.g. carrying out audit projects.
- Experience of working through others to deliver complex care plans in
- specialist area.
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations,
- including specialist short courses equivalent to Masters level.
- Comprehensive experience of planning, negotiating and setting specialist
- realistic, timed care plans/programmes, care aims and objectives
Physical Skills
Essential
- Highly developed auditory and visual perceptual skills for assessment of
- communication and swallowing disorders, e.g. videofluoroscopy, FEES
- Accredited dysphagia assessment and management skills
- Safe and effective manual handling skills of clients with complex acquired
- disabilities, including for safe eating and for access to communication aids
- Computer skills to maintain information systems, generate reports and
- produce teaching materials
- Specialist skills in use of a range of communication equipment and computer
- assisted therapy hardware and software including skills in communication aid
- programming for individuals use.
- Ability to work on multiple demands at one time.
- To be able to work with clients in a variety of environments to enable and
- support communication.
- Ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's
- communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and
- enhance communicative effectiveness
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to unpleasant/highly unpleasant
- working conditions e.g., bodily fluids, challenging behaviour
- Ability to deal with anxious, hostile and distressed clients and families
- Ability to carry out duties as a lone worker
- Ability to travel to meet the needs of the role
Desirable
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent time management, administrative, and organisational skills.
- The ability to work autonomously and actively within a team, within codes of
- practice and professional guidelines.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills in order to facilitate professional
- relationships with clients, carers, members of multi-disciplinary teams, and
- others.
- Highly developed communication skills (oral and written) enabling others to
- understand complex information and overcome barriers to understanding.
- Ability to carry out highly specialised assessment working with other
- professionals to make a differential diagnosis, prognosis, and
- management/intervention plan.
- Well -developed teaching, training, and presentation skills, in order to identify
- training needs, and devise and deliver training and education to other
- professionals and carers.
- Written skills for highly specialist report writing, policy and guidance writing
- Highly tuned observational, investigative, and analytical skills enabling
- interpretation of verbal and non-verbal messages within the context of the
- clients overall needs.
- Ability to frequently apply sustained and intense concentration when working
- with clients with severe and complex needs, in order to respond
- appropriately and record accurately.
- Counselling skills, including the ability to empathise, convey complex and
- sensitive information, and deal with emotional and/or distressing
- circumstances.
Desirable
- Competencies in FEES
-
- Leadership
- qualification
-
- Competencies
- Tracheostomy
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Pathology / Therapy or equivalent.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
- Significant post-graduate training and experience equivalent to Masters
- Level, working as a qualified SALT with adults with a wide range of acquired
- speech, language and swallowing disorders, with some time spent in a
- specialist role.
- Postgraduate Dysphagia qualification/training
- Post-registration education and experience equivalent to MSc level, e.g
- Advanced Dysphagia Training; Counselling Skills; Post-graduate study in
- aphasia, Leadership training
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery for both direct and
- indirect intervention eg group therapy, individual therapy and consultancy
- Highly specialist knowledge of acquired communication and swallowing in
- assessment, diagnosis, and therapy techniques with evidence of post
- graduate qualification and training at an equivalent level.
- Successful completion of a significant number of specialist short
- courses/self-study/training in the specialist area of work. Evidence of
- integration of this learning into clinical practice at a highly specialist level
- (e.gs., neuro-rehabilitation, stroke, dysphagia, voice, Lee Silverman Therapy
- Practitioner , counselling , neurolinguistics, cognitive- communication
- disorders, advanced videofluoroscopy interpretation, FEES analysis /
- interpretation, augmentative and/or alternative communication)
- Highly developed knowledge of current best practice in speech and language
- therapy provision to the specialist client group.
- Knowledge of range of potential pathways of care for acquired neurological
- disorders of communication and swallowing
- An in-depth knowledge of the range of health, social service, voluntary and
- private agencies relevant to specialism
- A working understanding of the legal responsibilities of the profession and
- the associated code of ethics, including a commitment to non-discriminatory
- practice and compliance with data protection legislation.
- Knowledge of safeguarding procedures.
- Knowledge of different learning styles and training in clinical supervision
- Awareness of equality, diversity and inclusion issues impacting on speech
- and language therapy.
- An in-depth working understanding of the structure, policies, priorities, and
- functioning of the NHS.
Desirable
- Membership of Royal
- College of Speech and
- Language Therapy
- (RCSLT)
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in adults with acquired speech, language
- and swallowing disorders with some time spent working with adults in a
- specialist role.
- Experience and highly developed knowledge of a range of highly specialist
- clinical procedures and therapy techniques.
- Extensive experience in different styles of service delivery group therapy,
- individual therapy and consultancy
- Experience of collaborative working practice with SALT and other
- professionals.
- Experience of working within a variety of settings eg in patient acute,
- intermediate care, community rehabilitation.
- Experience of planning, delivering, and evaluating training within the SALT
- department, and to other agencies including education, health, patients,
- carers, social services, private and voluntary sector.
- Experience of participation in activities to support the clinical governance
- agenda e.g. carrying out audit projects.
- Experience of working through others to deliver complex care plans in
- specialist area.
- Documented evidence of CPD in accordance with HCPC recommendations,
- including specialist short courses equivalent to Masters level.
- Comprehensive experience of planning, negotiating and setting specialist
- realistic, timed care plans/programmes, care aims and objectives
Physical Skills
Essential
- Highly developed auditory and visual perceptual skills for assessment of
- communication and swallowing disorders, e.g. videofluoroscopy, FEES
- Accredited dysphagia assessment and management skills
- Safe and effective manual handling skills of clients with complex acquired
- disabilities, including for safe eating and for access to communication aids
- Computer skills to maintain information systems, generate reports and
- produce teaching materials
- Specialist skills in use of a range of communication equipment and computer
- assisted therapy hardware and software including skills in communication aid
- programming for individuals use.
- Ability to work on multiple demands at one time.
- To be able to work with clients in a variety of environments to enable and
- support communication.
- Ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client's
- communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and
- enhance communicative effectiveness
- Ability to cope with frequent exposure to unpleasant/highly unpleasant
- working conditions e.g., bodily fluids, challenging behaviour
- Ability to deal with anxious, hostile and distressed clients and families
- Ability to carry out duties as a lone worker
- Ability to travel to meet the needs of the role
Desirable
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
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Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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