Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech and Language

1 month ago


Chertsey, United Kingdom Ashford & St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

**Overview of Responsibilities**: JOB DIMENSIONS & ACCOUNTABILITIES To supervise the work of other speech and language therapists, students, speech and language therapy assistants and volunteers To provide leadership within the appropriate specialist areas To lead and co-ordinate others in delegated tasksPROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY AND ACCOUNTABILITY To maintain Health Profession Council Standards of Proficiency, to practise within the legal and ethical boundaries of the profession and to be aware of current legislation applicable to the work of speech and language therapists To work within defined departmental and national protocols / policies and professional code of conduct To use knowledge of speech and language therapy to assess and manage people with communication and swallowing disorders To translate professional principles into action through a number of different approaches to practice To select or modify approaches to meet the needs of the individual To establish and maintain safe environments for clinical practice which minimise risks to patients / clients, those treating them, and others, including the use of hazard control and particularly infection control To seek advice when neededAccountability for Financial and Physical Resources To monitor stock levels in own service area and request new equipment To make petty cash purchases as required To be responsible for the security of client and confidential records, and the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained. This includes equipment loaned to clients and equipment taken off site KEY RESULT AREAS /PRIONCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES Professional autonomy and accountabilits To participate in and undertake to learn from the supervision and development opportunities provided by the Trust and the speech and language therapy department To work with a high level of autonomy in making decisions in relation to own practice and on a wider basis in relation to service delivery in meeting patients / clients needs To provide second opinion to other specialist staff within and outside local service areas To respect, and so far as is possible, uphold the rights dignity and autonomy of clients, including their role in the diagnostic and therapeutic process To practice in a non discriminatory manner To maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent To exercise a professional duty of care To know the limits of practice and when to seek advice To manage an agreed caseload of clients with a high level of clinical complexity, often within a specialist context or knowledge area To monitor and evaluate own highly specialist service delivery and provide progress reports To plan, prioritize and 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 deal most of the time with the novel, complex and unexpected To maintain fitness to practice To undertake self directed learning and CPD To reflect on own practice and to lead in facilitating others in clinical supervisionPatient / 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 and / or swallowing difficulties following admission to hospital, and in promoting access to the help and services they require To provide a leading role in health promotion and health prevention, including early identification of difficulties or at risk factors in given populations, so as to enable or facilitate appropriate access to speech and language therapy and other services Patient / Client Care individual focus 1. Identification and assessment of health education and social care needs To gather appropriate information 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 and skills in order to make professional judgements and clinical decisions for clients with specialist needs and high levels of clinical complexity To formulate specialist and highly specialist management plans for clients with specialist needs and 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 complex



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