Speech and Language Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Slough, United Kingdom Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The post holder will be a key member of the Adult Speech and Language Therapy Team (ASLT) and Care Home Support Team (CHST). CHST team includes a Pharmacist, Registered General Nurses, Registered Mental Health Nurses, Palliative care specialist nurse and Therapists. Based at Upton house in Slough you will be a team player within the East Berkshire locality.
The service operates Monday to Friday, 9-5. This is a 17.5 hours part time band 4 permanent role.
To provide Dysphagia training programmes to care home staff
To audit implementation of training in care homes and adapt training packages as appropriate.
To request and collect data on the set observations carried out in the care homes as part of the audit information required for this service.
To provide guidance to care homes on ASLT referral processes and send relevant materials.
To create necessary resources to support care home staff to follow dysphagia and oral hygiene recommendations
To promote the use of Dysphagia screening using triage screening assessment.
To advise on processes to monitor client to support SLT assessments e.g. oral hygiene logs and food diaries.
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we’re committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.
**Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are**:
Caring for and about you is our top priority
Committed to providing good quality, safe services
Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:
Flexible working options to support work-life balance
27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
Generous NHS pension scheme
Excellent learning and career development opportunities
‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
Free parking across Trust sites
**The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role**:
Willingness to present and train care home staff
Ability to manage own workload and feedback to supervisor as required.
Car driver with business insurance, ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.
We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted.
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Corinna Green CHST lead 07929824283 or Alexandra Geer Senior SLT 07775702972 who’ll be delighted to help

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