Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist

2 weeks ago


Crewe, United Kingdom Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Advanced Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist, to join the SLT team to develop and lead a new service to Critical Care and support acute wards at Leighton Hospital, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

A rare opportunity to lead & develop a newly funded Critical Care SLT service.

Are you ready for a challenge, we are seeking an enthusiastic Advanced Clinical Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join the acute SLT team. You would proactively establish and lead a funded SLT service to Critical Care and support acute wards at Leighton Hospital, Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust.

To provide autonomous advanced specialist assessment, treatment and management for inpatients presenting with a range of complex dysphagia and communication difficulties secondary to critical care admission. To provide management of patients with tracheostomies, including those receiving ventilation. To ensure that patients on the critical care unit are supported to communicate by facilitating partnership working with families, using low and high tech AAC and/or enhanced tracheostomy skills to support vocalisation. To attend weekly MDT meetings, complete MDT assessments. and attend critical care ward rounds as required to contribute to clinical discussion and devising MDT treatment plans.

To make appropriate referrals and participate in the videofluroscopy clinic. To support the development of an inpatient FEES service, make appropriate referrals and carry out FEES assessments as required.

To support acute ward areas by providing advanced specialist assessment, treatment and management for inpatients. To support patients stepping down from critical care to acute wards.

To contribute to education/training SLT CPD, students and the MDT. To maintain a high standard of governance contributing to audit and representing SLT on Trust wide groups such as Tracheostomy Working Party. To provide leadership within the service supporting effective daily organisation and priorisation, promoting service improvements and supporting all staff to maintain professional standards

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.

The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its Be Safe Be EquiPPEd campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

To work autonomously as an advanced clinical specialist speech and language therapist responsible for the triage, assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients with dysphagia and communication problems on critical care and the acute Hospital Wards at Leighton Hospital Crewe, to enhance the in-patient service delivery.

To use advanced specialist knowledge and skills to contribute to the multidisciplinary case management to ensure appropriate pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required

To act as an expert source of knowledge, offering specialist clinical advice and guidance to all staff members with regard to the management of effective patient care.

To provide professional mentorship and support, for clinical Speech & Language Therapists, assistants and students

To refer for and carryout diagnostics such as FEES or Videofluroscopy,

**Please Note**: The service has secured regional funding for SLT training in FEES and has a FEES trained SLT assessor to support competency in both scoping and interpretation for FEES



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