Job summary
Highly Specialist Adult Speech and Language Therapist required to join a motivated and enthusiastic small Speech and Language Therapy team in Jersey. The post holder will provide specialist Speech and Language Therapy services to the rehabilitation ward in Jersey, working as an integral member of the rehabilitation multidisciplinary team and to provide support and mentorship for less experienced Speech and Language Therapists.
Kindly contact Laura Flynn @l.flynn@health.gov.je for an informal discussion around this role.
Main duties of the job
The rehabilitation unit provides support to a range of patients. The post holder will support service development with the whole rehabilitation team and will provide outreach into the acute and community settings as required. This will include working with a range of patients from those individuals who have experienced a CVA to those with progressive illnesses and severe and complex traumatic brain injury and involve working with them towards their discharge into the community. It will involve working closely with the multidisciplinary team across rehab and community settings supporting the individuals across their rehabilitation journey. The post holder will provide oversight and manage the Speech and Language Therapy input to the Stroke rehabilitation pathway which is being reviewed in Jersey.
The post holder will also work with the Memory Assessment Clinic providing detailed Speech and Language Therapy assessments to help provide information for diagnosis of different types of Dementia. Supporting and providing advice for clients and their families with Dementia and wider service development in support of the services these clients will access.
Videofluoroscopy skills and experience in carrying out and running FEES clinics desirable.
Good knowledge of AAC essential.
The applicant needs to be flexible and work across different areas, as small team and need to be able to support with caseloads across a range of individuals from acute medical wards to community settings.
About us
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunitiesworking with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where youre exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.
To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.
For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinically lead, develop and provide a highly specialist
Speech and Language Therapy (S<) service for the rehabilitation unit,
elderly mental health and traumatic brain injury services. To work as an
autonomous practitioner implementing highly specialised assessment, evaluation,
treatment and management of patients with complex needs.
Providing
highly specialist professional knowledge for other disciplines so that the
contribution of Speech and Language Therapy can be integrated within the
total service provision of the rehabilitation ward, elderly mental health
service, and people living in the community with a traumatic brain injury.
Providing advice and training to clients, their families and other
professional staff on the management of complex communication and swallowing
disorders.
To
work as an advanced practitioner in video-fluoroscopy and FEES (Fibre
Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing) clinics as required.
Due
to the nature of being a small team the post holder will be expected to
support in other areas as required e.g. on the medical wards and community
settings.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinically lead, develop and provide a highly specialist
Speech and Language Therapy (S<) service for the rehabilitation unit,
elderly mental health and traumatic brain injury services. To work as an
autonomous practitioner implementing highly specialised assessment, evaluation,
treatment and management of patients with complex needs.
Providing
highly specialist professional knowledge for other disciplines so that the
contribution of Speech and Language Therapy can be integrated within the
total service provision of the rehabilitation ward, elderly mental health
service, and people living in the community with a traumatic brain injury.
Providing advice and training to clients, their families and other
professional staff on the management of complex communication and swallowing
disorders.
To
work as an advanced practitioner in video-fluoroscopy and FEES (Fibre
Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing) clinics as required.
Due
to the nature of being a small team the post holder will be expected to
support in other areas as required e.g. on the medical wards and community
settings.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinically lead, develop and provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy S< service for the rehabilitation unit, elderly mental health and traumatic brain injury services. To work as an autonomous practitioner implementing highly specialised assessment, evaluation, treatment and management of patients with complex needs. Providing highly specialist professional knowledge for other disciplines so that the contribution of Speech and Language Therapy can be integrated within the total service provision of the rehabilitation ward, elderly mental health service, and people living in the community with a traumatic brain injury. Providing advice and training to clients, their families and other professional staff on the management of complex communication and swallowing disorders. To work as an advanced practitioner in video-fluoroscopy and FEES -Fibre Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing- clinics as required. Due to the nature of being a small team the post holder will be expected to support in other areas as required e.g. on the medical wards and community settings.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification within areas of service and clinical practice including experience of working in the specialist areas.
- Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Facilitation and supervision of clinical staff and delivering highly specialist detailed training to qualified and unqualified staff.
- To provide student placements for SLT students including final year, and students from other professional groups as appropriate.
- Demonstrates advanced understanding of ethical and moral dimension of practice, especially around ethical feeding decisions in the management of dysphagia.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge of linguistics, phonetics, phonology, anatomy, neuroanatomy, psychology, aphasia, dysarthria, dyspraxia, voice disorders, neurological disorders.
- Deep, practical knowledge in a highly specialist area of speech and language therapy and knowledge of best practice in these areas.
-
- Good understanding medical diagnostic schedules and classification systems Highly specialist knowledge of linguistics, phonetics, phonology, anatomy, neuroanatomy, psychology, aphasia, dysarthria, dyspraxia, voice disorders, neurological disorders.
- Deep, practical knowledge in a highly specialist area of speech and language therapy and knowledge of best practice in these areas.
-
- Good understanding medical diagnostic schedules and classification systems e.g. ICD , DSM and medical conditions impacting on communication and swallow function.
- Highly specialist detailed knowledge of communication and eating and drinking disorders and current professional best practise guidelines for assessment and management.
- Highly Specialist detailed knowledge of standardised professional assessment tools and observational assessment.
- Familiarity with codes of practice of Health and social Care Professions Council HCPC and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists RCSLT
- Good understanding of safeguarding
- Highly Specialist knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication systems and software.
Desirable
- Awareness of the roles of other services (Health, Social Care and Education) and the interface with speech and language therapy
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Clinically lead, develop and provide a highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy S< service for the rehabilitation unit, elderly mental health and traumatic brain injury services. To work as an autonomous practitioner implementing highly specialised assessment, evaluation, treatment and management of patients with complex needs. Providing highly specialist professional knowledge for other disciplines so that the contribution of Speech and Language Therapy can be integrated within the total service provision of the rehabilitation ward, elderly mental health service, and people living in the community with a traumatic brain injury. Providing advice and training to clients, their families and other professional staff on the management of complex communication and swallowing disorders. To work as an advanced practitioner in video-fluoroscopy and FEES -Fibre Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing- clinics as required. Due to the nature of being a small team the post holder will be expected to support in other areas as required e.g. on the medical wards and community settings.
Experience
Essential
- Significant post-qualification within areas of service and clinical practice including experience of working in the specialist areas.
- Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Facilitation and supervision of clinical staff and delivering highly specialist detailed training to qualified and unqualified staff.
- To provide student placements for SLT students including final year, and students from other professional groups as appropriate.
- Demonstrates advanced understanding of ethical and moral dimension of practice, especially around ethical feeding decisions in the management of dysphagia.
Knowledge
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge of linguistics, phonetics, phonology, anatomy, neuroanatomy, psychology, aphasia, dysarthria, dyspraxia, voice disorders, neurological disorders.
- Deep, practical knowledge in a highly specialist area of speech and language therapy and knowledge of best practice in these areas.
-
- Good understanding medical diagnostic schedules and classification systems Highly specialist knowledge of linguistics, phonetics, phonology, anatomy, neuroanatomy, psychology, aphasia, dysarthria, dyspraxia, voice disorders, neurological disorders.
- Deep, practical knowledge in a highly specialist area of speech and language therapy and knowledge of best practice in these areas.
-
- Good understanding medical diagnostic schedules and classification systems e.g. ICD , DSM and medical conditions impacting on communication and swallow function.
- Highly specialist detailed knowledge of communication and eating and drinking disorders and current professional best practise guidelines for assessment and management.
- Highly Specialist detailed knowledge of standardised professional assessment tools and observational assessment.
- Familiarity with codes of practice of Health and social Care Professions Council HCPC and Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists RCSLT
- Good understanding of safeguarding
- Highly Specialist knowledge of alternative and augmentative communication systems and software.
Desirable
- Awareness of the roles of other services (Health, Social Care and Education) and the interface with speech and language therapy
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).