Job summary
- Main area
- Speech and Language Therapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 251-FCSS4588-SALT
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basingstoke North Hampshire Hospital
- Town
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/06/2025 09:00
Employer heading
Inpatient Lead Speech and Language Therapist
Band 7
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for an energetic and dynamic Speech and Language Therapist, to join our team and lead the inpatient service at Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital.
This team provides care to adult patients and we are committed to providing a high-quality service. We embrace change in the form of ongoing service development to make sure our patients are getting a modern, evidence based, effective service.
Main duties of the job
This post would be working closely with the inpatient lead at the Royal Hampshire County Hospital to ensure equity of care across sites. Your aim would be to provide quality care at the acute stage of the patient pathway, from critical care to general medical, and elderly care wards. Alongside your role in the operational management of the caseload, you would be providing clinical support for junior members of the team, in person or remotely, on both hospital sites.
The Speech and Language Therapy team run both Video fluoroscopy and Fibreoptic Endoscopic Examination of Swallowing (FEES ) services which you would take a key role in.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search HHFT Climate Action or [email protected].
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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· Highly skilled practitioner in the comprehensive management of patients with complex communication and EDS needs, especially in the acute setting · Management of the inpatient SLT team at BNHH ensuring effective operation of the service on the acute wards including critical care and instrumental assessments · Provision of clinical leadership in the acute setting (BNHH and RHCH) for people with communication and EDS needs |
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Recognised SLT degree level qualification or equivalent
- • Registered member of RCSLT
- • Registered member of HCPC
- • Continued Professional Development including evidence of reflective practice, in service training and courses attended and clinical governance gained
- • Post Graduate Courses relevant to adult communication difficulties and EDS
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of attendance of recognised managerial and leadership courses
- • Evidence of training in FEES and Videofluroscopy
- • Evidence of training in tracheostomy management
Experience and Knowlegde
Essential criteria
- • Experience at Band 6 level
- • Experience of working in acute settings, including critical care
- • Evidence of CPD in specialist areas
- • Evidence of implementation of service development
- • Design and delivery of training programmes
- • Experience of staff supervision
- • Awareness of local and national agendas affecting SLT services/profession
- • Placement Educator experience
Desirable criteria
- • Previous experience at Band 7 level
- • Experience of project management and budgetary management
- • Experience as an interviewer for SLT
- • Evidence of competency in tracheostomy management
- • Evidence of competency in use of instrumental assessment (FEES and Videofluroscopy)
- • Experience of using Quality Improvement (QI) methodology
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Remains updated with professional practice and new research
- • Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- • Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for therapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- • Effective verbal and written communication & interpersonal skills.
- • Ability to lead a team
- • Ability to deputise for more senior colleagues
- • Understanding and appropriate application of all principles surrounding risk management, Trust/ NHS policies of data protection, EDI and Health and Safety
- • Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
Desirable criteria
- • Skills in service development
- • Ability to run courses – internal/external
- • Competent in a range of IT skills
- • Effective written and verbal presentation skills
other
Essential criteria
- • Able to recognise own & other’s stress & act on it appropriately
- • Well motivated
- • Committed to maintaining and improving own standards
- • Committed to providing high quality care as demanded through the Clinical Governance Agenda
- • Ability to travel between other Trust sites at short notice as required
- • Expectation to participate in Bank holiday cover when required
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lisa Robson
- Job title
- Service/Prof. Lead Speech and Language Therapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01962 824928
- Additional information
Mobile: 07557756737
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