Highly Specialist Gender Diverse Speech and Language Therapist
| Posting date: | 02 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L143LB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9287-25-0930 |
Summary
To assess, develop and implement Highly Specialist gender diverse speech and language therapy treatment and evaluate outcomes.To use highly specialist skills to formulate treatment/care plans. To provide highly specialised written and verbal advice to a range of professionals regarding the management and care of clients with severe/ complex communication and/or feeding and swallowing difficulties. To maintain highly specialist knowledge of current practice and literature, ensuring decisions are based on the best available evidence. To adapt clinical practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences. To be responsible for the security, care and maintenance of equipment ensuring standards of infection control and safety are maintained including equipment loaned to clients. To communicate complex condition related information from assessment to clients, carers, families and members of the multi-disciplinary team/other professions. To demonstrate empathy with clients and form therapeutic relationships with carers and families and colleagues, ensuring that effective communication is achieved, particularly where barriers to understanding exist. To demonstrate skills in motivating clients with severe communication needs and /or carers to engage in the therapeutic process. To demonstrate the ability to reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of clients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness.To employ counselling skills with clients/ carers with highly complex needs and maintain sensitivity when imparting potentially distressing information regarding the nature of the clients difficulties and implications of the same. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence based practice and outcome measures. To manage and prioritise complex and specialist caseload and workload independently and use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgement/ decision making. To use highly specialist knowledge to develop protocols and care packages in areas of expertise. To monitor and evaluate own highly specialist service delivery. To produce reports reflecting highly specialist knowledge for individual clients and client groups. To be an active member of the multi disciplinary team, contributing to service delivery, audit and development. To provide highly specialist advice/ second opinions to speech and language therapists and other professionals in areas of expertise. To maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and Trust policies. To share information with others, observing data protection guidelines.To gather activity data accurately and regularly, ensuring the provision of such information promptly within trust guidelines.To develop care protocols for specific clinical groups in liaison with the multi-disciplinary team and team leader to improve patient care. To advise team leader of issues of service delivery including shortfall, service pressures and to use highly specialist knowledge to inform service/ policy developments as appropriate.To develop skills in leadership within appropriate specialist area.