Are you an enthusiastic Speech and Language Therapist passionate about developing your knowledge and skills in providing Community Speech and Language Therapy Services for Adults with acquired swallowing, communication and voice problems?
If so, we want you to be part of our team.
We have a Band 5-6 development permanent post available in our Speech and Language Therapy Team and are looking for an enthusiastic therapist to work within our team.
We are a small, dedicated team providing patient-centred assessment, advice, and treatment to adults across Coventry. We have excellent relationships with our Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, and Dietetic colleagues in our Planned Community Services and work closely with specialist colleagues in the Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Neurone Disease MDTs.
We work alongside Ear Nose and Throat colleagues in our MDT Voice clinics and provide voice therapy for adults with benign voice disorders.
We offer home visits, clinic-based appointments, and attendance at the MDT clinics at UHCW across our dysphagia, communication, voice, and dysfluency caseloads. There are opportunities for you to work across all of these caseloads to develop and advance your clinical skills with support from specialists in voice, dysphagia, and dysfluency.
Key Responsibilities:
Provide specialist professional clinical management/supervision for our SLT team as an integral member of the Planned Community Therapy Leadership Team.
Provide advanced speech and language therapy assessment treatments and review for patients referred into the service with acquired communication, voice, and swallowing needs.
Provide expert advice and guidance to patients, carers, health, and social care professionals from across multiple providers internal and external to the organization.
Support and contribute toward service development and meeting Key Performance Indicators.
Undertake and support specialist professional development of the staff within the service and across the Integrated Community Services as required.
Work as an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, contributing to team discussions and influencing decisions about patient care programs.
Develop and carry out robust treatment and management plans individually or in a group setting, evaluating the outcomes as appropriate.
Provide specialist advice, teaching & training to other members of the MDT regarding the SLT management of patients with communication and swallowing disorders.
We meet regularly as a team to support each other, manage our caseloads, and learn from each other in order to offer the best possible assessment and treatment for our clients. We will support your development through Band 5 NQP and dysphagia competencies into developing your own caseload and specialisms.
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.
We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high-quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.
By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.
The Trust is committed to building an organization that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care.
If you would like to discuss the role informally, please contact Helen Fracchia on 024 76237027.
For further details of the job role please see the attached job description.
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