Job Introduction
Whether you are a dedicated Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist or a passionate and experienced Band 5 Speech and Language Therapist looking to progress, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and dynamic Speech and Language Therapy team in BaNES!
The Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Service provides inpatient and outpatient services to adults living within Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) and aims to maximise long term independence, choice, and quality of life, by allowing patients to leave hospital earlier, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and reduce or minimise the need for on-going support after the period of intervention, improving quality of life.
The Speech and Language Therapy Service are a supportive and innovative team who like to keep on top of evidence-based practice and new techniques for intervention. We benefit from having a professional lead to ensure quality standards for our service are kept high, and we pride ourselves on keeping ‘ahead of the game’ wherever possible. We embrace change, are highly supportive and actively seek opportunities to improve our skills and expertise in order to provide the best possible service for our clients.
As an organisation, we aim to support a healthy work life balance by offering hybrid working. Your main base location will be St Martins Hospital in Bath with some opportunity to work from home.
This is a fixed-term opportunity (12 months to cover maternity leave).
Main Responsibility
The role will involve:
- Independently managing a caseload and providing skilled and specialised evidence based Speech and Language Therapy to adults with a wide range of communication and swallowing difficulties in a variety of settings
- Engaging with the services’ triage system, to ensure referrals are managed in a time effective way and service users are given the best advice, as quickly as possible
- Assessing and differentially diagnosing service users’ complex communication and swallowing difficulties, developing and implementing clear treatment plans, including comprehensive discharge plans from the service
- Providing evidence-based interventions, including intensive dysphagia and aphasia intervention
- Providing advice, training and education to others regarding the management and care of adults with communication and swallowing difficulties
- Demonstrating high levels of communication skills with service users, their families, carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team
- Providing supervision as required
- Providing support to our Speech and Language Therapy Assistant
- Assisting with managing waiting lists
- Referring for videofluoroscopy examinations
Please refer to the attached job description for a full list of role responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
Qualifications and Training
- Recognised Speech and Language Therapy qualification
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
- Registered member of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT)
- Dysphagia competent (RCSLT EDS framework Proficient level)
Skills, Experience and Knowledge
- At least 2 years relevant experience of working with adults and competent in dysphagia management
- Experience of independently managing a busy caseload and triaging referrals appropriately
- Fully competent in performing a variety of communication and swallowing assessments and treatments with a variety of presenting conditions, in line with current best practice guidelines
- Experience of assessing capacity and enabling individuals with significant communication deficits to make decisions wherever possible
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of training family members/carers around communication and/or feeding
- Good interpersonal and communication skills, including IT literacy, organisation and prioritisation skills
- Knowledge of professional and organisational standards relating to the role
- Knowledge of safe working practices in all settings
- Experience of appropriately raising safeguarding issues and managing with support
- This role requires the successful applicant to be mobile, visiting several locations across a wide geographical area so the post holder must hold a valid UK driving licence and have access to an appropriate means of transport to undertake the job effectively.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Speech and Language Therapist in the Community service, you’ll be part of our valued team based at St Martin's Hospital in Bath.
You will feel valued as a Speech and Language Therapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £37,338 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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