Job summary
The acute hospitals Speech and Language Therapy service at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is excited to have the opportunity to recruit another band 6 specialist into our service. This is at a time of considerable and exciting change as the trust works towards its move to the state of the art Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in 2022.
Our Speech and Language Therapy team, currently based across Sandwell and City hospital sites, are a welcoming and aspirational group of therapists with a clear vision and strong commitment to improving the lives of local people. We have a strong focus upon delivering patient-centred care and embedding 'what matters to you' care principles into all of our work. We also place equal emphasis upon caring for each other and are proud to work within a trust that champions the health and well-being of its staff.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an individual who is able to work independently with a range of communication and swallowing presentations across our inpatient wards and can use highly developed interpersonal skills to establish strong relationships with a range of individuals and MDTs.
Our team is committed to staff training and development and would be seeking a candidate who is motivated to support us in mentoring and developing both SLT rotational staff and other support staff within the service as well as help us to grow our student placement provision and education offer.
Our service is committed to exploring and developing 7 day services and post holders are required to engage in new future models of working as we progress to Midland Metropolitan University hospital.
You will be required to:
To independently assess, diagnose and manage a range of disorders ofcommunication and swallowing as part of the medical and surgical inpatient, acute SLT service.
To work independently with patients with often sensitive and complex presentations, whose behaviour may challenge (so as to cause harm to self and others), actively seeking support and supervision as required.
If the service requires, subject to requisite period of clinical training and competency development, to learn to undertake instrumental assessment procedures such as; endoscopic examination of swallowing (FEES) or videofluoroscopy(VFS).
About us
The Acute Speech and Language Therapy Department is a team based across Sandwell and West Birmingham hospitals. We link closely with our adult community Speech and Language Therapy colleagues and have recently developed rotational positions moving between the services to further strengthen our integration.
We have regular departmental meetings and clinical supervision sessions. Continuing professional development is very well supported with dedicated time given weekly for individual progression and monthly team evidence based practice teaching and reflection sesssions.
The department champions and supports student training across the full range of placements and is seeking to expand its offer to student education as we move forwards.
There is excellent administrative support, good IT facilities and access to modern trust library facilities.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust is located near major road and rail networks with easy access to Birmingham. There are a wide rangeof leisure facilities locally.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details of the job role and responsibilities please review the attached job description and person specification for the post.
If this sounds like an opportunity that interests you, I would strongly encourage and invite candidates to call and discuss the post further in confidence.
Please contact:
Becky Johnson on tel: 07870388985 or Rebecca.Johnson17@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details of the job role and responsibilities please review the attached job description and person specification for the post.
If this sounds like an opportunity that interests you, I would strongly encourage and invite candidates to call and discuss the post further in confidence.
Please contact:
Becky Johnson on tel: 07870388985 or Rebecca.Johnson17@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- HCPC and RCSLT Registration
- Post graduate dysphagia qualification of equivalent (i.e. working on level C RCSLT competencies)
- Portfolio evidence of CPD
- Completion of RCSLT newly qualified practitioner competencies
Desirable
- Membership of relevant RCSLT Clinical Excellence Network
Experience
Essential
- Postgraduate experience in the area of clinical specialism sufficient to demonstrate autonomous caseload management of communication and swallowing disorders.
- Experience of working as part of an MDT.
- Competence in managing dysphagia caseload independently
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring/ training junior staff and/or students
- Experience of FEES and/or VFS or willingness to work towards this
- Involvement in audit and research
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent
- HCPC and RCSLT Registration
- Post graduate dysphagia qualification of equivalent (i.e. working on level C RCSLT competencies)
- Portfolio evidence of CPD
- Completion of RCSLT newly qualified practitioner competencies
Desirable
- Membership of relevant RCSLT Clinical Excellence Network
Experience
Essential
- Postgraduate experience in the area of clinical specialism sufficient to demonstrate autonomous caseload management of communication and swallowing disorders.
- Experience of working as part of an MDT.
- Competence in managing dysphagia caseload independently
Desirable
- Experience of mentoring/ training junior staff and/or students
- Experience of FEES and/or VFS or willingness to work towards this
- Involvement in audit and research
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).
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).
