Clinical Lead Advanced Specialist in Communication

2 weeks ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

NHS AfC: Band 8a

**Main area**
- Speech and Language Therapist
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 164-5345818**Site**
- Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme
- **Town**
- Nottingham
- **Salary**
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 19/06/2023 23:59Job overview

The post holder is responsible for providing highly specialist SLT assessment, analysis and diagnosis, including differential diagnosis of conditions co-existing with deafness, e.g. dementia, mental illness, and other requiring advanced clinical reasoning, interpretation and analysis, and for coordinating the delivery of subsequent management programmes

The role requires the ability to counsel patients and families/carers on challenging and potentially distressing topics of discussion, often in difficult and emotive circumstances

The post holder must be able to adapt their communication to ensure the patient /carer is able to understand as well as possible, for example, by using recognised communication strategies for deaf/deafened adults and young people, including speech to text, lip-reading and the use of interpreters as appropriate

The post holder will contribute significantly to strategic developments, in liaison with the paediatric clinical SLT lead, audiology clinical lead and Head of Service

The post holder will also contribute to the development and delivery of training and professional mentorship

The post holder will supervise the specialist SLT in NAIP leading on clinical developments for deaf/deafened adults and older children

Main duties of the job

The post holder is responsible for leading and coordinating a specialist rehabilitation team (Speech and Language Therapists and Teachers of the deaf), within the multidisciplinary Nottingham Auditory Implant Programme (NAIP).

The rehabilitation team provides assessment, support, monitoring of progress and advice for deaf/deafened adults and children before and after cochlear implantation. The post holder will work as the clinical rehabilitation lead and operational manager working with deaf/deafened adults and older children, and develop this growing aspect of the service, in liaison with the Head of Service and other leads. The post holder will work collaboratively with other agencies and professionals from Health, Education and Social Services at a supra-district level.

There will be opportunities to collaborate with Nottingham Audiology Services and Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre in Hearing, which are currently based on the same site. The post holder typically carries out clinical work for 60% of the time, both face-to-face and via video consultations, and is expected to update their own professional

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is the largest employer in Nottinghamshire and serves more than 2.5m residents of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire and the East Midlands.

We provide a range of national and internationally renowned specialist services and we are at the forefront of new surgical procedures and research programmes. We are home to the East Midlands Major Trauma Centre, the Nottingham Children's Hospital and in partnership with the University of Nottingham we host a Biomedical Research Centre carrying out vital research into hearing, digestive diseases, respiratory etc.

As a teaching hospital, we are instrumental in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. We are proud of our strong relationships with universities across the East Midlands.

As one of the NHS Trusts identified in the New Hospital Programme, we have extensive plans to improve our hospitals and the services we deliver for patients. We are part of the award-winning series 24 Hours in A&E, which showcases the dedication, passion and skill of our teams.

This is an exciting time to join NUH and help support our future ambitions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES***

**Clinical Practice**

The post holder is responsible for providing specialist assessment and diagnosis, including differential diagnosis of conditions co-existing with deafness as appropriate (e.g. dementia, mental illness), requiring advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking and interpretation

To interpret and act on complex information gathered from a range of sources using knowledge of evidence-based practice, advanced clinical reasoning skills and relevant treatment approaches, including interpreting audiological information

The role requires the ability to counsel patients and families/carers on challenging and potentially distressing topics of discussion, e.g. decision
- making regarding an elective surgical procedure, often in difficult and emotive circumstances, progress/outcome measures, impact of additional difficulties/long-term deafness and expectation

The post holder must be a

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