Clinical Lead Speech & Language Therapist Acute Medicine/Surgery
Band 7
Job overview
We are seeking an enthusiastic clinical lead speech and language therapist with a passion for improving care and leading change within both the acute and outpatient services. This part‑time, permanent position is 30 hours per week.
As a large teaching hospital and tertiary centre, the post holder will jointly lead the service across two sites with an established Band 7 Clinical Lead, reviewing service models, streamlining pathways, strengthening MDT working and delivering education to improve care for patients with swallowing and communication needs.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and provide operational management of the Speech & Language therapy service to acute medicine and surgery.
- Lead service developments and support staff working.
- Use advanced clinical skills to assess, diagnose and independently manage complex dysphagia and disorders of communication.
- Represent speech and language therapy in multidisciplinary team settings and contribute highly specialist expertise for the management of patients with communication and swallowing difficulties.
- Integrate with multidisciplinary teams and contribute to training and education and quality improvement projects as appropriate.
- Demonstrate skills in motivating patients to engage in therapeutic process.
- Use excellent organisational and prioritisation skills and a flexible approach to work practice.
- Participate in instrumental assessment using videofluoroscopy and fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES).
- Participate in trust level service developments that impact on the care delivered to patients with swallowing and communication difficulties.
- Maintain clinical professional development and remain up to date with research and advancements within this clinical area.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Communicate and collaborate with all SLT stakeholders.
- Provide leadership and highly specialist clinical skills within acute medicine and surgery.
- Support personal and people development.
- Ensure the health, safety and security of self and colleagues.
- Support service development and planning.
- Support the Clinical Governance and Quality agenda within SLT.
- Support equality of opportunity and access within SLT for both staff and patients.
- Directly support delivery of therapy to patients.
- Provide leadership and management support.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
- HCPC registration
- RCSLT registration
- Graduate or post‑graduate qualification in Speech and Language Pathology
- Post‑graduate courses in relevant clinical area of Speech and Language Therapy
- Evidence of CPD in relevant areas working towards master’s level
Knowledge & Experience
- Highly specialised knowledge in clinical area
- Assess, diagnose and manage complex dysphagia
- Assess, diagnose and manage complex communication disorders
- Awareness of emerging assessment and treatment developments and ability to critically appraise the evidence base
- Experience of planning and delivering training/education to MDT
- Trained in instrumental dysphagia assessment, VFS and FEES
- Experience undertaking local research projects
- Experience of working with an out‑patient case load
Skills & Abilities
- Highly specialist skills in clinical area
- Implementation of relevant national guidance
- Advanced communication skills
- Advanced diagnostic and clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to prioritise workload
- Experience in audit
- Teaching experience
- CPD and clinical governance commitment
- Supervision and line management of staff
- Clinical educator
- Awareness of NHS strategic regional and national plan
- Experience of leading a team
- Analytical skills
- Excel and data collation skills
- Experience of audit/service evaluation across MDT/different services
Values & Behaviours
- Invests in trust values
- Clinical leadership skills
- Able to work flexibly and multi‑task
- Self‑motivated and able to motivate others
- Takes responsibility for high quality care and performance
- Able to travel
- Leadership training
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Equality and diversity statement
We are committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of race, age, disability, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership, neurodiversity or veteran status are encouraged to apply for this post. Our Statement on the Recruitment of Ex‑Offenders is available Here.
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