Specialist Speech and Language Therapist | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Weare excited to be offering an opportunity to join our Speech and Language Therapy service in Ipswich and East Suffolk, working as a specialist speech and language therapist with acquired conditions in the inpatient and acute stroke teams.
You will support individuals with communication and swallowing difficulties, including those with complex needs. You will supervise and line manage staff, and have the opportunity to contribute to our instrumental assessment provision, including videofluoroscopy and FEES.(Training can be provided in gaining tracheostomy, videofluoroscopy and FEES competencies, according to service need.) You will be able to lead service improvements, including implementing and amending service delivery to adhere to the revised SSNAP requirements.
The integrated SLT service in East Suffolk delivers inpatient, outpatient and community services.
Our team supports people who have a range of conditions including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, head and neck cancer, voice disorders, dementia, respiratory conditions, and frailty. We also offer a countywide service to adults with learning disability.We are a friendly team, and share expertise across the teams with our populations at the centre of service delivery.Our department sits within the Integrated Therapies division and therefore have excellent links to our MDT colleagues, including shared CPD opportunities.
All teams are supported by our SLT apprentices and assistants.
This service champions research, innovation and development. We are proud to be supporting two team members who are undertaking a pre-doctoral fellowship and Masters in Research.
The service lead and member of the team were recently ‘highly commended’ in the Research Impact category of the CAHPO awards for a research project that they published using clinical data. The team are actively engaged in service improvement projects including the use of EMST, reviewing respiratory pathways and looking at service redesign.The Trust is committed to developing leadership skills for staff at all levels.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A- The purpose of this post is to provide a highly specialist service to adults with acquired swallowing and communication disorders in inpatient settings. This will include acute stroke and inpatient wards such as respiratory, older people’s services, surgery, medicine and oncology. The role may also require the post holder to develop a service to admission wards, or to support the admission avoidance agenda.
- To provide clinical leadership with regards to delivering key acute stroke metrics (SNAPP)
- To provide Highly Specialist input to the Videofluoroscopy Clinic, as well as FEES assessments, including independent analysis, reporting and management of dysphagia
- To contribute to the nutrition support team ward round and attend the Trust nutrition meeting, contributing to service developments and strategy
- To provide specialist assessment and management of complex cases, including patients with tracheostomy, with support from the clinical lead therapist as required
- The post holder will work jointly with the senior SLT team to promote an integrated service to patients, in keeping with service aims. This may at times require the postholder to work in the community, or with outpatients
- To provide clinical supervision / mentor junior colleagues, working co-operatively with the Senior SLT Team. This includes co-ordinating regular CPD sessions for the team. There is also a line management role intrinsic to the post.
- To contribute to the provision and assessment of students on clinical placement including SLT students and wider MDT professions. This includes contribution to existing lecturing and formal training programmes
- To work collaboratively with hospital services, wider community services, Alliance and ICB partners to support care pathways for the client groups.
- The post includes triage and prioritisation of patients in the acute setting.
For full details of theresponsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 28 Oct 2024