Adult Community Speech and Language Therapist

7 months ago

Hadleigh, United Kingdom Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Do you have what it takes to work as a community Speech and Language Therapist?

We are a small, friendly and supportive team providing speech and language therapy to adults in the community, based at Hadleigh Clinic (near Southend-on-Sea) in South East Essex.

We are looking for a confident and motivated Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist to work with us, assessing and treating people with a range of acquired and progressive neurological conditions, non neurological conditions and voice disorders. Our work is varied and rewarding, making a real difference to our patients’ quality of life.

Applicants will need to be fully dysphagia trained, with at least one year's experience of working as a qualified Speech and Language Therapist.

The post is full time (1.0 WTE, 37.5 hours a week) and is currently Monday to Friday, with no weekend working required.

To provide a Speech and Language Therapy service across South East Essex for adults with communication and swallowing disorders.; assessing and treating people with a range of acquired and progressive neurological conditions, non neurological conditions and voice disorders.

To make a differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing difficulties on the basis of specialist formal and informal clinical assessments; to ensure that all interventions are based on accurate, appropriate and sufficient assessment.

To provide programmes of therapy activities and demonstrations of those activities to those concerned (family, staff, visitors) to enable carry over and generalisation of new skills into the wider communicative environment.

To use appropriate outcome measures to evaluate personal clinical effectiveness.

To submit activity data, using SystmOne, accurately, regularly and promptly in accordance with agreed guidelines and policies.

To supervise the work of less experienced SLTs, students and assistants and ensure that those to whom tasks are delegated, have the appropriate level of competence.

To participate in development of SLT Service risk management, quality standards setting and Clinical Governance/audit projects, advising clinical lead of any changes or developments that may affect service planning and policy.

EPUT are looking for motivated staff who shares our Trust values of Care, Learn and Empower. In return, EPUT can offer you a range of benefits and development including;
Season Ticket Loans

NHS discounts for staff

Excellent Training facilities and opportunities

Buying and Selling annual leave scheme

The opportunity to work bank shifts and expand knowledge and experience in other areas

Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work

Day One Flexible Employer

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What is Staff Bank?

Our EPUT NHS staff bank is an entity managed by the trust that hires clinical and non-clinical healthcare professionals to take on shifts at our trust hospitals and community settings. Here at EPUT we maintain our own bank of specialist staff to ensure that we are able offer safe and effective care at all times.

All our permanent staff are automatically enrolled onto the staff bank however this does not mean you have to work any additional shifts, but the option is there for you if you wish.

If you are joining our Trust in a fixed term role, please indicate on your New Starter Paperwork that you wish to join our staff bank.

To work as part of the team to provide continuing care for people with communication and/or swallowing difficulties in the community.

To be responsible and accountable for the prioritisation and management of own clinical caseload.

To make a differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing difficulties on the basis of specialist formal and informal clinical assessments; to ensure that all interventions are based on accurate, appropriate and sufficient assessment.

To support and facilitate all patients in expressing their own views and needs, to enable them to take an active part in the planning of treatment.

To use clinical assessment of patients’ communication skills to support decision making about a patient’s capacity to consent to interventions and make decisions affecting future management.

To develop clear individual care plans based on clinical guidelines and established best practice.

To use appropriate outcome measures to evaluate personal clinical effectiveness.

To provide programmes of therapy activities and demonstrations of those activities to those concerned (family, staff, visitors) to enable carry over and generalisation of new skills into the wider communicative environment.

To consider the need to adapt clinical practice to meet the needs of patients and carers including issues relating to disability, culture and educational attainment e.g. the format of written advice, wheelchair access and interpreters.

To ensure smooth and appropriate handover of care from one agency to another; to provide reports, reflecting specialist knowledge and interpretation of spe

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