Speech and Language Therapist

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide highly specialist Speech and Language Therapy services using evidence based practice to provide advanced dysphagia assessment and management for our babies, children and young people. Ensuring patients/families/carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care wherever possible.

Please review the job description for the full list of roles and responsibilities.

Person specification

Trust Values

Essential criteria

• Putting patients first
• Responsive to, and supportive of, patients and staff
• Open, welcoming and honest
• Unfailingly kind, treating everyone with respect, compassion and dignity
• Determined to develop our skills and continuously improve the quality of care

Education and Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Qualified Speech and Language Therapist
• Current HCPC registration
• Current RCSLT registration
• Post graduate courses relevant to speciality

Desirable criteria

• Membership of Clinical Interest Group relevant to the post

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience in assessment and management of dysphagia (infants and children)
• Significant MDT working providing teaching and training
• Experience of writing complex and sensitive reports
• Experience of working with children with communication difficulties

Desirable criteria

• Experience of managing eating and drinking in children with tracheostomy
• Experience of audit, QI or service development

Skills and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Advanced clinical reasoning skills
• Advanced dysphagia assessment in children and infants
• Able to influence MDT
• Teaching experience to a variety of audiences
• Excellent organisational skills
• Able to administer and interpret VFSS assessment and findings

Personal qualities

Essential criteria

• Enthusiastic, innovative and personable
• Team player

Important

• There may be some occasions when we have to close a vacancy earlier than the advertised closing date, this will be due to a high volume of applications. You are therefore advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Please check your emails regularly (and your junk folder) as this is how we will communicate with you throughout the recruitment process.
• In submitting an application, you authorise the Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process, should you be appointed to the post.
• During the recruitment process your identity documentation (ie passport, driving licence, visa etc) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, infrared and machine-readable zone security features of the documents provided.
• Employment at the Trust is offered subject to successful completion of a six month probationary period.
• Some roles may require weekend shift working across multiple sites
• We operate a joint recruitment hub across the North West London Acute Provider Collaborative Group. As part of this, your application and personal data may be shared with partner trusts within the group for recruitment and workforce purposes, in line with General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Right to work

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