Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist- Stroke
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Role Overview
We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic team leader, with relevant experience, who is keen to use their knowledge and skills in supporting a team of Speech and Language Therapist to deliver rehabilitation to adults with complex communication and swallowing difficulties. As an organisation we pride ourselves on delivering high quality patient centred care.
Key Responsibilities
- The successful applicant will become an integral part of a dedicated specialist rehab team comprising of speech & language therapists, physiotherapists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, doctors and skilled support staff.
- You will line manage and provide supervision to a small team of junior speech and language therapists, students and support staff/assistants.
- Excellent communication skills and flexibility are essential to the role.
Role Details
- This is a fixed term post due to the current post holder taking maternity leave.
- The successful candidate will manage a small team of Speech and Language Therapist within a stroke rehabilitation ward and become an integral part of the MDT leadership team.
- You must be able to use your skills to independently undertake specialist assessment, and design patient centred rehabilitation programs, for complex communication and swallowing needs for clients within a specialist neurological caseload.
- You will be expected to work as an integral part of the stroke rehabilitation MDT to deliver specialist rehabilitation programmes including navigating highly complex clinical situations that includes interventions for people with complex eating and drinking problems dealing with issues of mortality, morbidity and ethical dilemmas.
- You will use your skills and knowledge to work independently, provide second opinions and support the development of knowledge and skills of junior colleagues and students.
- As part of the leadership role you will be expected to lead on quality improvement initiatives and service development for the service, the trust and the stroke pathway. You will also be expected to deliver training programmes with a specialist content contributing to the development of junior Speech and Language Therapists, Students, AHPs, rehabilitation assistants, rehabilitation nurses and housekeepers.
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BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Hannah Greco
- Job title: Clinical Lead for Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address: hannah.greco@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0121 466 6672
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