Senior Healthcare Assistant

4 weeks ago

Orpington, United Kingdom King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job overview

We are seeking dedicated, clinical specialist Speech & Language Therapist to lead our services at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH)

This is an exciting opportunity to combine your clincia, managerial and leadership experience to head up a team of 13 therapists across inpatient stroke and acute medical wards and join the SLT senior leadership team at Kings.

We are a busy and highly effective team in a very busy District General Hospital serving the residents of Bromley and surrounding boroughs. 

The team operates as an active member of the wider MDT and has strong links across therapies, nursing and medicine to deliver patient centred care.

The SLT service at Kings is made up of 52 staff across our 3 acute sites (Denmark Hill, PRUH Orpington and Orpington Hospital). We have regular contact for operational meetings and CPD alongside many opportunities to collaborate on projects and service developments across our teams.

 King’s College Hospital has a large Therapy department with over 400 therapists from Dietetics, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy. Each service is organised under a Head of Profession with a Chief of Therapies heading up the service and representing Therapies across the Trust as well as externally. The department has a well-established provision of education and training, supervision and appraisal, ensuring that all staff have opportunities to develop their skills and knowledge and to reach their full potential. 

Main duties of the job

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·To lead and manage the team of Speech & Language Therapists based on the PRUH site.

·To possess and develop highly specialist knowledge (theory and practice) in acute in-patient Speech & Language Therapy across a range of specialities including Medicine, Frailty, Surgery, Critical Care and Stroke.

·To ensure and maintain a high standard, efficient and effective Speech & Language Therapy service within these specialist areas.

·To manage a complex clinical caseload and undertake the assessment and management of patients.

·To deputise for the Head of Speech & Language Therapy as appropriate.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, million patient contacts a year and around 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

The trust-wide strategy Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we can take Team King’s to another level.

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