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Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist -Dysphagia Lead
Closed for applications on: 6-Dec-2024 00:03
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 6-Dec-2024 00:03
Key details
Location
- Site
- Moseley Hall Hospital / West Heath Hospital
- Address
- Moseley Hall Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Postcode
- B13 8JL
- Major / Minor Region
- Birmingham & The Black Country
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
Job overview
Due to new funding, an opportunity has arisen for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist, with a specialist interest in dysphagia to join the inpatient team at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS trust. The post holder will take a lead developing the inpatient dysphagia service and providing expert opinion in complex cases across a broad population. The post holder will provide expert assessment and management of a broad caseload including complex older adults, end of life, dementia, frailty , stroke and acquired brain injury. In addition to clinical work, the role will involve developing our newly established FEES service and supporting with education and dysphagia competencies for less experienced staff.
Advert
To provide highly skilled assessment and treatment to a complex swallowing caseload as part of a multidisciplinary team in an in-patient setting. To deliver a high quality, seven-day service for people with complex swallowing difficulties by adherence to clinical governance and evidence based practice. This highly specialist position will have responsibility for embedding and developing a FEES service delivering instrumental dysphagia assessment for adults in Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust inpatient beds. To provide assessment, intervention and expert opinion for patients with clinically complex swallowing presentations including those with long term enteral feeding, end of life care, ethical feeding decisions and tracheostomy. To take a lead role in training the Speech and Language Therapy workforce to achieve competencies in Dysphagia, FEES and Tracheostomy management.
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Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Undertake specialist differential diagnosis of complex cases within a swallowing caseload with professional autonomy.
- To independently assess, develop and implement highly specialised programmes of care and treatment to meet the needs of clients.
- Structure clear therapy plans based on best practice and adapted to individual client needs and priorities.
- Use highly developed analytical and judgemental skills to negotiate with speech & language therapy colleagues, other professionals and carers with reference to management of complex cases.
- Record and maintain up-to-date clinical case notes in line with professional standards and trust policies.
- Write reports containing highly complex, confidential and sensitive information, which may be used in a legal context.
- Offer specialist clinical support and provide second opinions to other speech and language therapists within and outside of the department.
- Independently manage a caseload that includes people with complex eating and drinking problems, dealing with issues of mortality, morbidity and ethical dilemmas.
- Manage patients with tracheostomy and supervise less experienced speech and language therapists working in this area.
- To develop and deliver a FEES service across the inpatient settings.
- Manage risks from bodily fluids and infections in the environment.
· Lead on audit in specialist clinical area.
· Participate or lead on research projects within the inpatient service with particular focus on dysphagia.
· Undertake frequent reviews of evidence to underpin clinical practice.
· Use Trust information technology systems.
- Lead on inter-agency and multidisciplinary projects regarding service objectives.
- Lead on specific projects within the Speech and Language Therapy service.
- Advise on service delivery, clinical governance, policy development and audit, including proposing changes and developments.
- Identify need, plan, devise, deliver and evaluate training programmes with a specialist content contributing to the development of rehabilitation assistants, rehabilitation nurses and housekeepers.
- Act as clinical educator for speech and language therapy students.
- Offer additional highly specialist experience within the inpatient services and coordinate observation sessions for other professionals.
- Share highly specialist knowledge at local, regional and national level.
- Participate and lead in the appraisal system for speech and language therapy.
- Identify and engage in professional development activities at least to a level to meet Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists and Health and Care Professions Council requirements.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Degree level qualification in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
Essential criteria
- Has qualification to practice
HCPC Licence to Practise
Essential criteria
- Registered with HCPC
- Awaiting HCPC license as applying from overseas
Dysphagia Post-qualification training or RCSLT Dysphagia competencies or extensive experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience with dysphagia wide range of medical presentation (5+years)
- Extensive experience with dysphagia specific relevant medical presentation (5+ years)
- Experience with dysphagia in a specialist position less than 3 years
Completed Level 2b/3 RCSLT FEES Endoscopist Competencies Framework
Essential criteria
- Completed level 3 Competencies
- Completed level 2b Competencies
- Completed level 2a Competencies
- Completed level 1 Competencies
Extensive experience of assessing and treating complex swallowing difficulties adult population.
Essential criteria
- extensive experience
- significant experience
- moderate experience
- Limited Experience
Highly skilled in managing complex eating and drinking problems
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Highly Skilled management
- Limited evidence of highly skilled management
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hannah Greco
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Speech and Language Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
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