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Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) is one of the largest community healthcare organisations in London and Hertfordshire, providing our services to diverse communities/boroughs in 11 London Boroughs - Barnet, Brent, Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Harrow, Hounslow, Kensington and Chelsea, Merton, Richmond, Wandsworth, Westminster - and Hertfordshire.
We are rated Good by the Care Quality Commission and are ranked among top NHS employers. Community healthcare is our focus and our passion. We champion the role of community health professionals to make sure our patients get great care closer to home.
At Central London Community Healthcare, we promote equality and foster an inclusive environment where our diverse workforce feels they belong and are treated with fairness, respect, and dignity, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.
CLCH aims to create a culture where staff feel supported, valued and respected for what they do and where the values we seek to show to our patients are the same values we show to each other, in line with the NHS People Plan and Our NHS People Promise and our own strategic Equality values and objectives.
Job overview
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
The post holder will provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment service as part of the Merton Neuro Rehab Team on a virtual and domiciliary basis across Merton. The service includes clients with a wide range of acquired communication and swallowing difficulties, such as stroke and head injury, and those who have a degenerative condition and need support to manage disability and quality of life.The service also provides input for clients who have cognitive-communication and vocational rehabilitation needs
The post holder will be an integral member of the multidisciplinary neurorehab team in addition to the wider speech and language therapy team across CLCH, acting as a resource to other medical, nursing, therapy and social services staff and voluntary agencies and as an interface link for Speech and Language Therapy with acute providers
Main duties of the job
To provide a highly specialist speech and language therapy lead role provided by the neuro team. To take responsibility for the referrals, procedures and operational running of the service along with the leads and service manager
To develop and provide appropriate highly specialist speech and language therapy assessments and interventions
To facilitate group work and peer mentoring for people affected by a neurological condition, alongside the MDT.
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 highly specialist physical examination of the orofacial process including the mechanism of eating, drinking and swallowing
To employ manual dexterity in the manipulation and stimulation of the orofacial
Working for our organisation
Professional Standards
All staff must comply with the Central London Community Healthcare (CLCH) NHS Trust Staff Code of Conduct and demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours. Senior Managers must also comply with the NHS Code of Conduct for Managers, based on the Nolan principles of public accountability.All staff employed in recognised professions are required to ensure they work to the professional standards and/or Codes of Practice set out for their professional group. In addition, staff are required to demonstrate the Customer Care Standards of the organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work as an integral member of the Merton Neuro Rehab service
To produce reports regarding client's needs, reflecting specialist
knowledge, summarising proposed care plans and ensuring that these are
integrated into the client's Individual Care Plan
To provide supervision, advice and support to others regarding the management
and care of clients with communication and/or eating and swallowing difficulties
To generate appropriate and differentiated strategies for case load management,with regard for best available evidence
To attend and contribute to relevant multidisciplinary meetings and client reviews
as appropriate
To monitor the waiting list in conjunction with the neuro team leads, and to communicate if / when difficulties arise and to decide together on appropriate actions
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria- • Registration with Health Professions Council as a speech and language therapist.
- • Recognised Speech and Language Therapy degree qualification or equivalent.
- • Registered member of RCSLT.
- • Courses and experience to a Specialist Dysphagia Practitioner level with babies and small children (as described in the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists Interprofessional dysphagia framework
- • Completed ADOS assessment training and is confident in administering the assessment, interpreting the findings and scoring the assessment. Has been completing ADOS Assessments for at least 2 years.
- • Membership of relevant Clinical Excellence Networks (CENs)
Experience
Essential criteria- • Working with clients who have a range of dysphagia, eating & drinking & communication needs. Clear, advanced clinical
- • Specialised knowledge of paediatric therapy and management of dysphagia, eating & drinking & complex communication needs difficulties.
- • Working collaboratively with parents/carers and other professionals
- • Knowledge and experience of assessment (including standardised) and treatment techniques in paediatrics.
- • Experience of offering clinical supervision
skills and knowledge
Essential criteria- • Knowledge of assessment tools, treatment techniques and therapeutic interventions
- • Understanding of safeguarding
- • Awareness of the principles of clinical governance/audit
- • Working knowledge of the roles of other professionals in Health, Education and Social Care involved with CYP.
- • Demonstrates well developed ability to analyse and reflect upon complex information.
- • Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal
- • Prioritisation skills
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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