Assistant Rehabilitationist | Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £27,948 - £29,468 per annum incl HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6174525/196-LIS8487 |
Summary
Working within the hearing implant service the post holder will support the clinical work of the rehabilitationist team. The postholder will work within the outpatient department with some remote working. Interacting with deaf and deafened children and adults who are being assessed for or have received hearing implants.
Stocking rehabilitation resources
Developing resources
updating clinical database
providing support to patients in relation to assistive technology
Monitoring task lists
Participating on rehabilitation sessions and groups in person and on line.
The Hearing Implant Centre based at St Thomas’ Hospital.
The Hearing Implant Centre is a tertiary service that manages children and adults for whom conventional hearing aids are no longer an appropriate treatment option. Children and adults are referred to the Hearing Implant Centre for consideration for a range of hearing implants, including bone conduction implants, middle ear implants and cochlear implants.
The clinical and administrative team has grown over many years and has a range of support professionals including Assistant Technical Officers and Administrators with the clinical professionals within the team including Surgeons, Audiologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Audiological Rehabilitation Therapists, Teachers of the deaf, Hearing Therapists and Clinical Psychologists.
Duties and Responsibilities
To process the dispatch, or replacement of hearing equipment and accessories for patients under the care of the Audiological Rehabilitation Therapy Service.
To organise the storage of Audiological Rehabilitation Therapy and Hearing Implant Centre Therapy equipment and resources.
To arrange telephone and virtual video follow-up appointments for both individual and groups of patients
To carry out assessment and therapy tasks for individual patients and/or groups of patients for the paediatric and adult Hearing Implant Rehabilitation teams and Audiological Rehabilitation Therapy teams, under the direction of a clinician.
To be directed by and work alongside clinical members of the team to carry out assessments and rehabilitation.
To document patient contacts including emails, telephone conversations and face to face meetings in patient notes following local note keeping guidelines.
To write up patient notes under the supervision of a clinician.
To design and develop low tech communication and therapy aids including auditory training charts and picture communication charts for individual patients under the direction of the Speech and Language Therapists and Teachers of the Deaf.
To develop and maintain a library of therapy resources, therapy equipment and speech perception materials held within the department and help to ensure equipment is complete and tidy.
To issue patients with questionnaires, for example the GAST and BAPP and upon receipt of this data, input it onto the teams spread sheets/auditbase.
To issue patients with Audiological Rehabilitation Therapy questionnaires as well as appropriate CBT exercises to patients with Hyperacusis, Tinnitus and Auditory Processing Disorder following departmental protocols
To take responsibility for receipt of completed Audiological Rehabilitation Therapy and Hearing Implant Rehabilitation questionnaires, calculate and score the data therein and record the data within a system that provides a clinical outcome measure.
To use local clinical protocols to escalate responses to questionnaires for particular patients that may require urgent clinical attention
To assist Audiological Rehabilitation Therapists and Paediatric and Adult Hearing Implant Therapists in carrying out clinical/service audits and research projects under the guidance of a clinician.
To conduct administrative tasks assigned by clinicians and maintain accurate statistical records on various IT/patient management systems.
To transfer electronic confidential patient data to the department shared drive where necessary and store appropriately.
To liaise with local Speech and Language Therapists, Teachers of the Deaf, schools, care homes, Kings Hospital and relatives as appropriate to collect information on levels of local support in place for the patients on the Hearing Implant Centre caseload, to advise them of upcoming patient reviews appointments at the Hearing Implant Centre and to collect information on assessments and interventions that have been carried out locally.
To triage rehabilitation clinical queries that have been put on the department rehabilitation task list as well as email and phone queries from local professionals and to direct them to relevant clinical professionals following local department protocols.
To communicate information to and from patients and their carers and to exchange this information with clinicians.
To use appropriate tact and sensitivity with patients and carers and to use appropriate strategies to overcome barriers to understanding for patients and carers with language difficulties or for whom English is not their first language.
To have an understanding of and be able to use a range of therapy procedures using knowledge acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses, and experience to diploma level or equivalent.
To assess a patient’s response to therapy activities and make judgements on modifications needed to such activities according to the patient’s circumstances.
To support clinicians in arranging and delivering training to local professionals.
To support clinicians running the paediatric and adult information and communication with confidence sessions for parents and patients. To deliver parts of the i session, as appropriate, under the guidance of a clinician.
To monitor and book from the paediatric and adult rehabilitation patient waiting lists and escalate to a clinician where needed for clarification of actions required.
To participate in departmental clinical rehabilitation meetings and service improvement meetings. To take specific actions pertaining to service improvement.
The post holder may be required to undertake any other duties as required by Clinical Leads appropriate to grade.
To engage in regular CPD (continuous personal development).
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Jun 2024