[ref. b55593002] Bank B6 Specialist Speech and Language therapist -Herts - St Albans

1. 5 Monday-Friday- Flexibility within

• To work within professional standards and clinical guidelines, promoting best practice and undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, including assessing and treating own caseload of patients/clients and maintaining professional documentation.
• To build up and maintain key relationships with referrers including GPs, acute providers, Bedded Services, District Nurses, Wheelchair Services and other services across CLCH to facilitate appropriate referrals.
• To be responsible for the supervision of rehabilitation assistants and speech and language therapy students.
• To work mainly in the patients’ homes but also in a variety of settings including clinics, residential care homes, continuing care homes and community centers, it may entail individual and group therapy interventions.
• To support personal and professional development through active participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and by participating in any audit or research being undertaken by the service.
• To communicate information related to complex conditions from assessment through treatment and discharge to clients, carers and families.
• To demonstrate excellent communication skills to communicate with and support the communication of patients who have complex and varied communication difficulties as a result of their neurological event.
• To motivate and facilitate informed consent through advanced communication skills –and to be able to gain co-operation for treatment where there may be significant barriers to understanding such as aphasia.
• To demonstrate skill in managing conflict across a range of situations in a verbal, written, formal and informal manner.
• To work with other members of the multi-professional team to run therapy groups on an as-needed basis.
• To develop, update and present SLT therapy-specific patient and carer education presentations to clients and carers.

Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

• A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
• Flexible working options
• Training, support and development in your career

• To undertake multidisciplinary neurological assessments, to be able to identify the needs of the clients and to work closely with the MDT on joint goals. These clients will present with a variety of complex neurological conditions, but with an emphasis on those recovering from stroke.
• To analyse auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of client’s communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness in the home, at work and other relevant settings
• To carry out specialist neuro-physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating and swallowing
• To monitor all aspects of the interaction of significant others with clients. In particular to simultaneously monitor auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of dyadic interactions, encouraging adaptive strategies to maximise effective communication
• To make appropriate clinical decisions following assessment, using evidence based practice and outcome measurement to provide the most effective treatment to clients and their families within clearly defined care plans and based on SMART goals agreed with clients and their families.

This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025