Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist – Critical Care
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Job summary
"Are you looking for a new challenge as a Critical Care SLT in a supportive team of 26 SLTs ?
BHRUT SLT Team are looking for a Band 7 to co-lead our Critical Care services across both our sites (Queen's Hospital/King George Hospital). This exciting role covers 5 ITU units with the opportunity for MDT working within lots of different teams. We are also running an ITU step down service on our acute wards to improve the patient journey and continuity of care. You should have extensive experience managingacquired swallowing and communication difficulties within acute and ITU settings. VFSS competencies and basic trache competencies are highly desirable. We are proud to offer in house training in instrumental swallowing assessment FEES and vented traches.
You will lead on representing SLT at weekly rehab rounds, MDT, Quality and safety meetings, tracheostomy ward rounds and much more. You can also be involved in our 6 VFSS slots and FEES clinics 3 days per week.
Our SLT Team is ever growing and very supportive. We provide ample CPD, training opportunities and peer support. Service development, audit and quality improvement is actively encouraged throughout the team. We will also consider flexible and agile working if requested at interview.
If you're interested, why not check out our twitter account @BHRUT_SLT to get more insight into our team."
For informal discussion contact - 01708435000 Ext 6766
Main duties of the job
To provide autonomous specialist assessment, treatment and advice to inpatients who present with a wide range of complex swallowing and communication difficulties secondary to critical care admissions; including management of patients with tracheostomies.
To support providing highly specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within acute inpatient areas including acute medicine, surgical and respiratory patients as required.
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.
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; this maybe cross-site.
To provide a lead role in teaching, supervising and appraising peers, Band 6, Band 5, Student Speech and Language Therapists, Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.
To contribute to running and developing of the Speech and Language service through audit, development of policies, procedures and guidelines using evidence-based practice.
Undertake supervision, mentoring and performance development plans to promote clinical and professional effectiveness of self and others. This includes performance management, management of disciplinary issues in liaison with Clinical Lead SLT.
About us
Under the leadership of our Chair Jacqui Smith and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, we provide care for the residents of three of the most diverse London boroughs. More than half of our 7,500 strong workforce are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and most live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.
Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals, operating from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London.
As we recover from Covid-19, we're proud to be leading the way nationally in reducing the time our patients wait to get the treatment they need. The pandemic provided the drive forour teams to innovate and change.
We know we have more work to do to improve waiting times for urgent and emergency care, and our performance against the four-hour emergency access standard remains challenged, in comparison to many other London trusts.
We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We're also pleased to be part of the NEL Cancer Alliance.
Details
Date posted
19 October 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,178 to £55,492 a year Per annum inclusive of outer London HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
162-5447-RH
Job locations
Queens Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer details
Employer name
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Address
Queens Hospital
Rom Valley Way
Romford
RM7 0AG
Employer's website
https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist
Natasha Fitzpatrick
01708435000
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