The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (General Acute)
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Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist (General Acute)
Role Overview
We are looking for an experienced inpatient Speech and Language Therapist with knowledge and skills in general acute and a passion dysphagia. You will either be a proficient Band 6 and ready for the next step or already working in a Band 7 role.
Responsibilities
- Join an established inpatient team with the support of multiple specialised clinical areas.
- Have clinical skills in supporting the communication/swallowing needs acutely admitted patients.
- Access to videofluoroscopy, and an established FEES service, providing responsive instrumental assessment to support dysphagia management and swallow rehabilitation.
- Training and competencies in instrumental assessment can be provided and supported.
- Expected to have a high level of clinical skill and be highly motivated to deliver excellent care to all patients.
Skills and Competencies
- To undertake a comprehensive highly specialist assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills, interpretation of available test results and assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
- To provide highly specialist advice on patient care to other health and social care professionals. This may involve challenging or requesting changes to treatment programmes /care plans set by other professionals.
- To formulate and deliver a highly specialist individual SLT programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, clinical reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment.
- To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, as defined by the Head of Service, working without supervision.
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- To supervise more junior staff and students.
- To develop and deliver training of others as appropriate in the area of critical care.
- To undertake evidence-based audit and research projects to further own and team’s clinical practice.
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About Us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
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We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Phoebe Tripney
- Job title: Speech and Language Therapy Service Manager
- Email address: p.tripney@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 01902444363
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