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Lead Speech and Language Therapist (Adults)
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Job Description: Lead Speech and Language Therapist (Adult)
Location: Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, SW5 0TU
Employment Type: Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours per week
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Are you a skilled Lead Speech and Language Therapist with post graduate training and the ability to provide a client-centred service to adult patients? This is a new position and provides an exciting opportunity to develop the Speech and Language Therapy service in a private hospital. The service has recently moved to the Lexham Gardens site within Cromwell Hospital, where you will be part of the wider therapies team.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the development of the Speech and Language Therapy Service and produce an effective and efficient service to all users whilst maintaining the highest professional and clinical standards.
- As Lead Adult SLT, you shall provide staff and operational leadership including governance and quality improvement initiatives for the SLT service.
- Be responsible for providing highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and intervention for clients with speech, language and swallowing difficulties, often with complex needs.
- Provide assessment and implementation of highly specialist SLT treatments and programmes of care, writing reports, reflecting specialist knowledge for a caseload mostly consisting of adult patients with tracheostomies and swallowing needs.
- Carry out video fluoroscopic examinations of swallow, analyse and report findings regarding implications for management and design specialised therapeutic programmes of care.
- Perform clinical risk assessments and complete risk assessment plans relevant to your caseload.
- Be well versed in the International Dysphagia Diet Standardisation Initiative (IDDSI) and to lead on the delivery of this framework. This includes the teaching of relevant nursing and catering staff and monitoring compliance.
- Provide highly specialist input into policies and protocols regarding the management of patients seen by the Speech and Language Therapy Team and wider service.
- Maintain up-to-date clinical written records and collection of data in accordance with local and RCSLT professional standards.
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What you’ll bring:
- Degree in Speech & Language Therapy
- HCPC Registration
- Advanced training in dysphagia management.
- Enhanced DBS clearance.
- Desirable: Masters or other advanced professional training and qualifications
- Member of RCSLT
- Member of specialist interest group
Benefits:
- Payment of professional registration fees
- Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
- Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
- An enhanced pension plan, life insurance and income protection
- Discounted access to online gym sessions
- Subsidised staff canteen
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.
We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
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Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
Get in touch or apply today!
For a confidential chat please email adele.orchard@bupa.com within our recruitment team.
Time Type: Full time
Job Area: Clinical Services
Locations: Cromwell Hospital, London
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