Speech & Language Therapist | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 October 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £34,521 - £41,956 pa inc |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 November 2024 |
| Location: | Sidcup, DA14 6LT |
| Company: | Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6695475/277-6695475-CPH |
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to work alongside a team of Speech and Language Therapists that manage swallowing and communication difficulties in individuals. It is community-based, providing specialist assessment, rehabilitation and advice service to people living in the London Borough of Bexley, in a location that suits their rehabilitation need, which includes their place of residence, day centres, or clinics. The Neuro Rehab team work closely with the Community Adult SLT team, and the post holder will work across both caseloads depending on your personalised learning needs.
If you have experience working in rehabilitation, or as a Speech and Language therapist in a health setting, hold a full UK driving licence, and have excellent communication and observation skills, then we have the perfect job for you.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible Band 5 Speech and Language therapist to join our community team. You need to be an autonomous practitioner with flexible problem-solving skills, a holistic approach to care and be efficient in your time and people management. The team provides a great opportunity for joint working, goal setting and regular in-service training.
The post holder must have the relevant post registration experience & must have completed the dysphagia competencies.
• To provide a speech and language assessment and therapy service to adults with communication and swallowing difficulties as part of the Bexley Community Speech and Language Therapy Team.
• To work autonomously and manage own caseload of non-complex clients who present with communication and/or dysphagia.
• To deliver high quality Speech and Language Therapy assessment, diagnosis and intervention to people and their carers with supervision.
• To work with the multi-disciplinary team and other health and social care practitioners.
• To use supported communication techniques within a Total Communication approach
• To provide advice to other professions about working with service users who have communication impairments.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care
• To maintain accurate, comprehensive, and up to date electronic patient treatment records, in line with the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT) professional standards, HCPC and legal, departmental and Trust requirements
• To carry out and interpret assessments of communication and swallowing for people using sound clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to develop effective individualised assessment and care plans.
• To diagnose communication and swallowing difficulties in individuals referred to Speech and Language Therapy.
• To contribute to medical diagnoses including differential diagnosis.
• To write reports.
• To jointly plan, implement and monitor packages of rehabilitation including direct therapy, advice, and training.
• To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and clinical outcome measures.
• To ensure clients are involved in the planning and implementation of their care packages.
• To contribute to multi-disciplinary assessment.
• To work as a member of the Bexley Community Rehabilitation Team by completing Initial Assessments and planning client-centred, multidisciplinary rehabilitation.
• To attend relevant training and development to develop skills and knowledge required.
• To follow Health and Safety Guidelines regarding unpleasant working conditions e.g. Hepatitis, lone visits, and exposure to bodily fluids.
• To ensure service users’ health, social, cultural and spiritual needs are considered at all times.
• To communicate professionally and appropriately with service users and carers, team members, SLT colleagues and other agencies.
• To provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information where persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training or reassurance skills are required. There may be barriers to understanding or acceptance possibly within emotive, distressing and/or antagonistic atmospheres.
• To adapt spoken and written information to suit the communication needs of the listener/audience, including the clinical communication needs of people with learning disabilities.
• To demonstrate developing persuasion, motivation, negotiation, empathy and reassurance.
• To liaise closely with other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Learning Disability Teams.
• To maintain close links with Day and Residential Service staff.
• To liaise with relevant colleagues within the local community and Acute service.
• To develop and deliver presentations and training to a range of audiences including Service Users, carers, staff and Professional colleagues, with support from senior colleagues.
• To maintain clinical records in accordance with local and professional standards.
• To provide letters and reports as necessary in accordance with local standards observing data protection guidelines.
• To provide accurate and contemporaneous statistical information in accordance with local standards.
• To use basic word processing skills and specialist software packages to develop communication aids and accessible information.
• To identify personal or professional development areas and evaluate these as part of the trust appraisal framework.
• To participate in Personal and Professional Development Review ensuring that the objectives set reflect the Service and Trust plans.
• To participate in the development and delivery of training (formal and informal) to others with and without support.
• To keep up to date with new techniques and developments to maintain best practice
This advert closes on Sunday 3 Nov 2024
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