Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 24 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 pa. pro. rata. |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, E9 6SR |
| Company: | Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6307600/293-EMRS1-0330 |
Summary
We are looking for an experienced Speech and Language Therapist to join our small and friendly specialist team. The right person will have experience of MDT/IDT working within adult neurorehabilitation, ideally in a community setting. The post is for a 0.6WTE fixed term contract to cover maternity leave. You will be part of the wider Homerton SLT service.
Further we welcome applications from candidates from minority ethnic backgrounds to improve our representation of communities that we serve.
The multi-disciplinary RNRU Outreach Team is a well-established and neuropsychology-led community service. The team offers highly specialised, person centred interdisciplinary assessment and goal led intervention to clients with non-progressive acquired brain injury. The team covers a large and diverse region, providing a service to those living within approximately an hour from Homerton (broadly, north east London and Essex).
The team works with clients whose needs cannot be met by their local therapy teams, thus clients typically present with complex social, physical, cognitive and behavioural presentations requiring holistic, bespoke inter-disciplinary interventions.
The team also provides a specialist service in vocational rehabilitation (return to work and education) within the region.
The post-holder will have the opportunity to further develop skills in specialist community neuro-rehabilitation, interdisciplinary working, and vocational rehabilitation. The case load largely reflects cognitive-communication deficit, aphasia, with some dysphonia and dysarthria. The team do not undertake dysphagia management.
The post-holder will manage a specialist speech and language therapy caseload of patients with complex neurological deficits, as an autonomous practitioner in the community and without the need for direct supervision. Specific duties include:
• Assessment of clients’ functioning at the levels of impairment, activity and participation through the application of specialised standardised and non-standardised tools.
• Designing and delivering goal-focused interventions for communication impairments, based on findings from formal and informal assessment and clinical formulation.
• Provision of communication partner interventions; and /or work with systems (families, carers, friends, colleagues, employers) as appropriate.
• Collaborative, joint and trans-disciplinary working with the team to met clients rehabilitation needs.
• Interventions accordingly focus as appropriate to the client on a wide range of concretely defined objectives which may include increasing autonomy and independence within the home, enhancing social participation and psychological well-being, and facilitating resumption of important social roles including education or employment.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page
The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Jun 2024
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