University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Band 7 Speech and Language Therapist - Airway/Deconditioning
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Job Summary
An exciting new opportunity has arisen at University Hospitals of Birmingham for a Highly Specialist Speech and Language Therapist to join our supportive and innovative SLT team at Birmingham Heartlands and Good Hope Hospital. This role will focus on the provision of specialist speech and language therapy input to patients with Inducible laryngeal obstruction and/or chronic cough within our complex breathlessness multidisciplinary service.
This is an opportunity to work within a supportive and highly experienced MDT in a service that is expanding and developing to address a previously unmet need within the BSOL area. The post involves taking a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients with suspected or confirmed Inducible laryngeal obstruction to determine diagnosis and identify appropriate SLT treatment as clinically indicated. Patients within this service often have a highly complex presentation and may have concomitant factors such as breathing pattern disorder, EDAC or asthma. Speech therapy is an integral part of this service, and alongside the MDT, you will ensure that patients receive a comprehensive and holistic assessment and treatment plan.
You will have the opportunity to work alongside other highly specialist staff and have access to nasendoscopy with opportunities to further enhance and develop your existing specialist skills.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
- Work as a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner with a clear passion in assessing and managing complex breathlessness within an outpatient respiratory setting.
- Provide specialist level training to the wider MDT when required.
- Attend regional complex breathlessness network meetings, networking with speech therapists working in similar roles across the country.
- Passionate about providing effective patient-centered care and highly enthusiastic about service development of respiratory services.
- Attend a long stay and deconditioning multidisciplinary clinic treating patients with upper airway issues requiring speech therapy approximately once per month.
- Be welcomed into a large and supportive therapy team with excellent training and development opportunities as well as a robust supervision and appraisal system.
We are open to discuss flexible working arrangements as suited to the post.
We'd love to hear from you for an informal chat or visit to the department. For any further information, please contact:
Asfa Bashir -- Clinical Team Lead for Speech and Language Therapy
Nicola Pargeter -- Principal Speech and Language Therapist (ENT/Respiratory) and RCSLT Professional Advisor in Respiratory
About Us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value, and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values-driven in all that we do, and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such, we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long-term health condition, mental health, or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
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Job Description
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in Speech and Language Therapy or equivalent
- Registered with Health Care Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD including recent postgraduate training relevant to clinical specialty
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists
Desirable
- Postgraduate degree relevant to clinical area
- Leadership training
- Attendance at Clinical Educators Course
Experience
Essential
- Post-graduate experience in relevant clinical areas working with patients with a variety of acute and chronic conditions.
- Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within this specialty.
- Demonstrates specialist knowledge in speech and language therapy and specialist area, across the range of procedures and working practices with the appropriate theoretical and practical experience.
- Well-established knowledge of assessment tools and a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to clinical area.
- Experience of involvement in objective upper airway and swallowing assessments (e.g., FEES, VFS, CLP/CLE).
- Experience of training and supervision of SLT students.
- Experience of training staff groups at all levels.
- Experience of leading audit/quality initiatives on a regular basis.
- Attendance at postgraduate courses relevant to the specialist area and speech and language therapy.
- CPD Portfolio sharing evidence of attendance at mandatory training and evidence of in-service training.
- Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multi-disciplinary teams and across agencies.
Desirable
- Experience of staff management.
- Awareness of or participation in research relevant to clinical specialism.
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Highly developed physical skills including dexterity, coordination, and sensory skills for assessment and named occupational therapy treatment of patients.
- An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive, and contentious information.
- An ability to emphasize and reassure.
- An ability to persuade, motivate, and negotiate.
- An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding.
- An ability to contribute to the clinical education of less experienced staff, students, or assistants.
- An ability to analyze clinical and non-clinical complex facts and situations which require the interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
- An ability to plan, organize, formulate, and adjust complex plans.
- An ability to supervise and delegate work to Speech and Language therapists, therapy support workers, and students.
- An ability to propose changes in policies and procedures which may improve the service.
- Competence in basic dysphagia assessment and management.
- Advanced knowledge of assessment tools and a range of therapeutic interventions relevant to the management of upper airway conditions.
- Advanced knowledge of trends and best practice in the clinical specialism.
- Good working knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to specialism) and their implications for SLT.
- Competence in the facilitation of mental capacity decision-making.
- Understanding of the principles of clinical governance/audit.
- IT skills.
- Good negotiation and influencing skills.
- Excellent analytical and reflection skills.
- Excellent organizational and prioritization skills.
- Ability to work through interpreters to gain information relevant to clinical management.
- Supportive to other staff.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Able to meet the travel requirements of the post.
- Flexible to work between sites.
- Post holders will be required to participate in Therapies 7-day working.
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Desirable
- Competence in objective dysphagia assessment (e.g., FEES, VFS).
- Competence in objective upper airway assessment (e.g., CLP, CLE).
- Experience of delivering lectures to mixed audiences.
- Demonstrated an interest in promoting speech and language therapy to health professionals and other agencies.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information, please see the NHS Careers website.
For Help With Your Application, Contact
Asfa Bashir
0121 424 0432
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£49,387.00 to £56,515.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9017057
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
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