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Band 7 SALT ONW | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Job details
Posting date: 13 December 2024
Salary: Not specified
Additional salary information: £26.30 Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 12 January 2025
Location: Stanmore, HA7 1AT
Company: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: 6872342/824-BANK-LIT1353

Summary

Job Purpose - Monday - Friday 8:30-4:30


This post has responsibility for leading a team of SLTs providing domiciliary and outpatient care to patients in the Borough of Harrow. The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner providing highly specialist speech and language therapy services to a community caseload of clients with complex needs. A significant proportion of these clients will have English as an additional language (EAL). They will be expected to manage their own caseload, providing second opinions and specialist advice working within professional standards. To support with the management of patients with dysphagia they will have access to VFS/FEES if required.





· To clinically supervise / provide day to day management of clinical staff providing community and outpatient services and ensure that the appropriate appraisal systems are in place for all team members

· To participate in recruitment, selection and induction of staff for the Adult Speech Language Therapy Team

· To provide regular clinical and professional advice, support, and supervision to Assistants, newly qualified, Band 5 and Band 6 Speech & Language Therapists within the Adult Speech & Language Therapy Community Team, as appropriate.

· To facilitate the development of more junior colleagues’ problem solving/negotiation skills formally & informally via peer review/ one-to-one coaching

· To participate in Individual Performance Appraisals for more junior Community Team staff on an annual basis and to facilitate staff in achieving their objectives.

Professional Standards

All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability. All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.







· To prioritise and manage a highly complex mainly neurological caseload independently making differential diagnosis & clinical management decisions on the basis of evidence from assessment frequently weighing up complex clinical management decisions in the context of conflicting clinical indicators.

· To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings



· To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by developing and implementing Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapy Treatment evidence based practice programmes providing thorough evaluation of clinical outcomes.

· To use clinical judgement and highly specialist skills to evaluate deterioration in client’s health status communicating effectively the appropriate professionals in a timely manner

· To demonstrate skills in motivating clients and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process.

· To develop clear unidisciplinary / multidisciplinary clinical protocols based on best practice. To demonstrate high level of clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures.

· To actively participate and take a lead on SLT Triage for new referrals as required.


This advert closes on Friday 27 Dec 2024