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Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

About

Established in 1998 from the merger of Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals, the Trust has been on a long journey of development and improvement to its current position as the largest provider of acute hospital services to Surrey residents. It became a Foundation Trust in December 2010.

Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in the boroughs of Runnymede, Spelthorne, Woking and parts of Elmbridge, Hounslow, Surrey Heath and beyond. The Trust employs around 4,400 individual members of staff. Our turnover was £425 million in 2021/22.

The Trust provides a whole range of services across its hospital sites. The majority of planned care, like day case and orthopaedic surgery and rehabilitation services, is provided at Ashford Hospital, with more complex medical and surgical care and emergency services at St. Peter’s Hospital.

A history of both hospitals can be found by clicking here.

Contact

Address: St Peter's Hospital; Guildford Road; Chertsey; Surrey; KT16 0PZ
Contact Number: 01784884214

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Ref: 323-AHP8471-KP Vacancy ID: 5788471

Speech and Language Therapist - Adult Neurorehabilitation

Closed for applications on: 21-Nov-2023 00:01

Vacancy status: Closed

Closed for applications on: 21-Nov-2023 00:01

Location

Site: Bradley Unit, Woking Community Hospital
Address: Heathfield Rd
Town: Woking
Postcode: GU22 7HS
Major / Minor Region: Surrey

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £45,753 - £52,067 pa inc. HCAS (pro rata - 22.5hrs per week)
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 7)

Specialty

Main area: Neurorehabilitation

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Overview of Responsibilities :

The candidate will have the opportunities to contribute, facilitate, design and lead service developments, innovations and audit within the neurorehabilitation service. There is access to a SLT-led Videofluoroscopy service and FEES service with support provided by the Stoke and Neuro inpatient SLT team.

JOB DIMENSIONS & ACCOUNTABILITIES

To supervise the work of other SLTs, students, SLT assistants and volunteers
To provide leadership within the appropriate specialist areas
To lead and co-ordinate others in delegated task

PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY AND ACCOUNTABILITY

To maintain Health Profession Council Standards of Proficiency,
To work within defined departmental and national protocols /policies & professional code of conduct
To use knowledge of speech and language therapy to assess and manage people with communication and swallowing disorders

Accountability for Financial and Physical Resources

To monitor stock levels in own service area & request new equipment
To be responsible for the security of client and confidential records, the security, care and maintenance of equipment.

KEY RESULT AREAS /PRIONCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Professional autonomy and accountability

To participate in and undertake to learn from the supervision and development opportunities provided by the Trust and the speech & language therapy department
To work with a high level of autonomy in making decisions in relation to own practice & on a wider basis in relation to service delivery in meeting patients’ / clients’ needs
To provide second opinion to other specialist staff within & outside local service areas
To manage an agreed caseload of clients with a high level of clinical complexity, often within a specialist context or knowledge area
To monitor & evaluate own highly specialist service delivery and provide progress reports
To plan, prioritize & co-ordinate a workload of potentially conflicting roles and activities with a service wide perspective in order to attain a range of professional goals
To undertake self-directed learning and CPD
To reflect on own practice and to lead in facilitating others in clinical supervision

Patient / Client Care – population focus

To provide a leading role across the Trusts and partner agencies and organisations through raising public awareness of the needs of people with communication & / or swallowing difficulties following admission to hospital, and in promoting access to the help and services they require

Patient / Client Care – individual focus

Identification and assessment of health education and social care needs
To use appropriate specialist and highly specialist assessment techniques for clients with a high level of clinical complexity for swallowing and communication difficulties
To undertake, or to arrange, clinical investigations as appropriate for a specialist and highly complex caseload, to include the appropriate use of videofluoroscopy
To analyse, evaluate and interpret the information collected.
To make a differential diagnosis on the basis of evidence from the assessments

Formulation and delivery of plans and strategies for meeting identified needs

To use specialist research, reasoning and problem-solving skills
To draw on appropriate specialist and highly specialist knowledge & skills in order to make professional judgements
To formulate specialist and highly specialist management plans for clients with specialist needs & high levels of clinical complexity including the setting of goals and timescales
To develop specialist and highly specialist programmes of care for clients with specialist needs and high levels of clinical complexity based on best practice for intervention to be implemented by the therapist or others (individual, group, direct and indirect interventions)
To provide highly specialist clinical and professional advice to those receiving care and to others regarding the management and care of patients / clients with high levels of specialist needs & clinical complexity in their communication and / or swallowing difficulties
To conduct the appropriate specialist & highly specialist diagnostic or monitoring procedures, treatment, therapy or other actions safely and skilfully.
To maintain records and share information as appropriate for clients with specialist needs and a high level of clinical complexity often within a specialist context or knowledge area

Critical evaluation of the impact of, or response to, intervention

To use specialist & highly specialist knowledge to monitor and review the ongoing effectiveness of planned activity and to modify it accordingly
To audit, reflect on and review own specialist and highly specialist practice

Knowledge understanding and skills

To know and keep up to date with national, local and client contextual knowledge and understanding as well as the relevant core and care group specific, specialist underpinning knowledge and skills related to the assessment, management and professional craft knowledge of specialist speech and language therapy practice
To identify personal / professional development needs evidenced by Personal Development Plan / Professional Portfolio developed within the SLT department appraisal framework
To demonstrate knowledge of, and adhere to RCSLT Professional and Clinical and National and Local Clinical Guidelines
To have a working knowledge of all relevant procedures for specialist practice including: Safeguarding Children, SEN procedures, Vulnerable Adults, capacity for consent and other legal frameworks

Physical skills

To demonstrate highly developed and accurate auditory and perceptual skills in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients / clients
To demonstrate skills in handling clients with disabilities
To demonstrate skills in the use of equipment & technology in highly specialist clinical care

LEARNING AND EDUCATION

Self

To identify training and development needs required for highly specialist practice through critical self-reflection
To engage in continuous self-directed learning that promotes professional development and quality of practice
To evaluate and implement learning outcomes
To assume delegated responsibility for co-ordinating clinical placement opportunities within the specialty / team for speech and language therapy students to observe, discuss and have hands on experience of working with clients
To provide full student placements, including assessments of the placements as appropriate
To undertake to be a resource of practice expertise in conjunction with the Higher Education provider by advising, developing and delivering lectures / workshops etc for students

Speech and language therapy colleagues

To lead case discussions, peer review and action learning sets, drawing on highly specialist knowledge and experience
To lead, facilitate and support the development and practice of colleagues individually and in groups whilst respecting their existing levels of expertise, e.g. through mentoring, clinical supervision, providing second opinions, co-working, and evaluate the effectiveness of the chosen methods in meeting learning needs
To provide regular specialist training on a range of topics
To facilitate others in developing problem solving and negotiation skills

Others

To provide a regular, leading role in identifying the specialist training needs of individuals or groups, in developing the appropriate content and style of information giving / skill development, in providing the training through the most appropriate means and in evaluating the impact
To lead in providing opportunities for other health professionals to learn about speech and language therapy and relevant health promotion and health prevention from observation and discussion

Practice research and development

To contribute to and, as a highly specialist speech and language therapist, to lead the continuous improvement of the speech and language therapy service by
Critical reflection on service level practice and planning
Initiating and undertaking research / clinical governance / audit projects within area of expertise
To propose and implement agreed quality improvements within practice
To develop and implement innovations to reduce risk, and improve quality and clinical effectiveness
To participate in departmental research and clinical governance / audit projects
To representing the team within multidisciplinary systems of clinical governance
To collect and provide research data as required

Policy / service development and implementation

To be aware of, adhere to and implement service and team plans and policies across agencies and organisations
To take delegated lead on the development of team objectives or projects in liaison with peers
To assume delegated tasks as requested by line manager including participation in working groups, policy development groups
To contribute to interagency / multi disciplinary team building and policy development

COMMUNICATIONS AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS

To communicate specialist, complex condition related information from assessment, as well as information, advice, instruction and professional opinion effectively and appropriately to a wide range of colleagues, specialist and non specialist, and to patients / clients, parents and carers
To liaise, work in partnership and be proactive with other professionals, support staff, patients / clients and parents or carers within and across Trust and organisational boundaries
To make referrals within health, education and social services settings
To lead and co-ordinate work undertaken as part of uni and a multi disciplinary teams
To communicate complex, high risk care issues and concerns in speech and language therapy and wider contexts, including child protection, vulnerable adults and health prevention
To attend meetings with a specialist, service wide client focus
To deal with initial complaints sensitively

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria

Ability to travel between sites as required
Support Weekend Working as required

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Bsc Hons or recognised degree equivalent qualification in Speech and Language Therapy
Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks
RCSLT Dysphagia competencies

Desirable criteria

RCSLT VFES Competancies
RCSLT FEES Competancies

Experience

Essential criteria

Significant experience working within adult SLT setting within Stroke and Neuro
Relevant highly specialist experience post registration
Evidence of leading a team including clinical supervision and appraisals

Knowledge and Skills

Essential criteria

Expert knowledge of the evidence base for SLT therapy in Neurorehabilitation
Well established and in depth knowledge of a range of recent developments in practice
Delivering excellent quality teaching to MDT members, juniors and senior staff both within and outside of the speciality
Resilience
Audit and Research
MDT working
Excellent interpersonal skills, organizational skills and the ability to delegate