Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 29 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24.17 - £34.92 per hour |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE228SW |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6265263/196-BANKLIS0424 |
Summary
The postholder will be a member of the Adults with Learning Disability Team, The team works across the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham. The post holder will be working with adults with a Learning Disability who have communication impairments and / or dysphagia.
The post offers excellent opportunities to work jointly with other Speech and Language Therapists who specialise in Adults with Learning Disabilities as well as other members of a multi-disciplinary health team.
The post holder will be one of a team of speech and language therapists who support people who have dysphagia. The post offers opportunities to for the successful candidate to support people and their carers to use a variety of Augmentative and Alternative Communication approaches.
To assess, diagnose, design and deliver appropriate speech and language therapy intervention for people with learning disabilities who have communication and or eating and drinking disorders
To provide highly specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of communication and/or eating and drinking difficulties
To develop appropriate strategies for managing and prioritising complex caseloads in community settings independently
Main bases for the Service are in East Dulwich and Catford.
The Post holder will primarily work across multiple sites in Southwark for clinical work, but will be in a multi-disciplinary team and also work across Lambeth and Lewisham
Integrated and Specialist Medicineconsists of 9 Directorates and provides care and treatment to patients who require emergency and inpatient care, community services including district nursing and specialist care, dental services, specialist inpatient / outpatient areas , imaging and pharmacy. Integrated and Specialist Medicine also have responsibility for cross site operations. The integrated approach of the clinical group facilitates and promotes the shared learning of best practice, innovative and creative ways of working to enhance the patient experience and ensure the delivery of outstanding care
The Integrated Local Services directorate within this clinical group provides a range of community and inpatient health services for adults within the communities of Lambeth and Southwark, with some services also provided in Lewisham. the Adults with Learning Disability team sits within this directorate.
Responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis, development and delivery of highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy communication assessment and interventions to meet the needs of people
Responsibility for the assessment, diagnosis, development and delivery of highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy eating and drinking (dysphagia) assessment and interventions to meet the needs of people
To maintain adequate client case notes, upholding the minimum standards for the service, and to provide written reports as per quality standards
To write highly-specialised reports in multiple formats so that, where possible, they are accessible to the client as well as their carers, and other professionals
To ensure that clients are actively involved in the planning and prioritisation of their own care plan
Responsibility for communicating effectively with staff, support workers, other members of the multi-disciplinary team and wider professional team, GP, family members and all significant others on aspects of client services
To put in place, manage and use information from systems and processes that communicate across all of the service users’ environments, including their home e.g. participation records, communication monitoring systems, eating and drinking monitoring forms
This advert closes on Friday 10 May 2024