Speech and Language Therapist
NHS Jobs Gloucester
To assess, develop, and implement Specialist Speech and Language Therapy treatment and intervention; ensuring that service users are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans wherever possible. To demonstrate a high level of clinical effectiveness, using evidence-based practice, adapting practice to meet individual service users circumstances; including due regard for cultural and linguistic differences, and by evaluating outcomes.
To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users with communication difficulties. To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users with communication difficulties.
Contribute to observations and advise/offer a clinical impression/professional opinion on how communication difficulties may inform/explain/feed into behaviour that challenges. Assessing improvement in quality of life following SaLT input through the use of appropriate and informative outcome measures.
Provide training for all staff / care providers and other outside agencies including specific learning disability/Autism training. Develop and maintain clinical pathways for patients throughout a referral to LDISS in conjunction with CLDT colleagues and wider Trust resources.
Implement and monitor a Positive Behaviour Support ethos across LDISS and role model best practice and disseminate knowledge to wider team/care providers. Design and complete audits and monitor compliance alongside agreed governance structures.
With additional training, provide supervision of junior staff. Act as supervisory mentor for students (within framework of profession). Provide and receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers or other professionals and agencies, on a daily basis.
Collate, analyse, and present service user data to the weekly Multidisciplinary team meetings. In partnership with team manager organise and chair Multidisciplinary team meetings and Service user orientated meetings. Attend Trust internal meetings and have full participation in organising and presenting at Continuing Professional Development days.
Maintain accurate written records and statistics to ensure that service user details and details of care given are recorded in notes and on the trust database(s) in line with trust policy. Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions.
To participate in Multi-Agency meetings to offer advice and opinions to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users. Develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals which reflect individual needs.
The post holder will assume a responsibility of a shared case load. There is a requirement to use your own vehicle to travel throughout Gloucestershire to carry out appointments. Implement risk assessments and management plans on a daily basis.
To provide specialist advice to others regarding the management and care of service users with communication difficulties. To plan and prioritise workload, exercising autonomous professional responsibility for the assessment, treatment, and discharge of service users with communication difficulties.
Contribute to observations and advise/offer a clinical impression/professional opinion on how communication difficulties may inform/explain/feed into behaviour that challenges. Assessing improvement in quality of life following SaLT input through the use of appropriate and informative outcome measures.
Provide training for all staff / care providers and other outside agencies including specific learning disability/Autism training. Develop and maintain clinical pathways for patients throughout a referral to LDISS in conjunction with CLDT colleagues and wider Trust resources.
Implement and monitor a Positive Behaviour Support ethos across LDISS and role model best practice and disseminate knowledge to wider team/care providers. Design and complete audits and monitor compliance alongside agreed governance structures.
With additional training, provide supervision of junior staff. Act as supervisory mentor for students (within framework of profession). Provide and receive complex and sensitive information from service users, carers or other professionals and agencies, on a daily basis.
Collate, analyse, and present service user data to the weekly Multidisciplinary team meetings. In partnership with team manager organise and chair Multidisciplinary team meetings and Service user orientated meetings. Attend Trust internal meetings and have full participation in organising and presenting at Continuing Professional Development days.
Maintain accurate written records and statistics to ensure that service user details and details of care given are recorded in notes and on the trust database(s) in line with trust policy. Liaise with and offer specialist assessment and advice to other agencies and professions.
To participate in Multi-Agency meetings to offer advice and opinions to facilitate the ongoing treatment and care of service users. Develop, implement and evaluate care plans in conjunction with service users, carers and other professionals which reflect individual needs.
The post holder will assume a responsibility of a shared case load. There is a requirement to use your own vehicle to travel throughout Gloucestershire to carry out appointments. Implement risk assessments and management plans on a daily basis.
To be accountable for own professional action and recognise own professional boundaries through interpretation of clinical/professional policies. To work within defined departmental and national protocols/policies and professional code of conduct The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
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