Job summary
- Main area
- Speech & Language Therapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 20.25 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-7443-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Speech & Language Therapy Assistant
NHS AfC: Band 4
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Following a successful pilot of a Band 4 Speech and Language Therapy Assistant (SLTA) role in the acute SLT team in Sheffield we are pleased to be able to offer the role as permanent sessions. It is an exciting environment and you would be working within a supportive and very friendly team of Speech and Language Therapists.
The post is 20.25 hours a week as a permanent position. Discussion about more hours a week on a temporary basis is encouraged, please get in touch. We look to increase the number of permanent hours available for this post following further development in the service.
The successful candidate will be based in the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Speech and Language Therapy (SLT) service working as members of the acute team working with adult patients on the acute wards who could in one of three hospitals, the Northern General, the Royal Hallamshire and Weston Park.
Main duties of the job
To provide high quality speech and language therapy support to adult patients with swallowing and/or communication difficulties associated with a wide range of conditions under the guidance of the speech and language therapist.
To work within a specified scope of competence with swallowing disordered patients. This will include and equate with Levels 3 and 4 on the Eating, Drinking, Swallowing Competency Framework (EDSCF) of the RCSLT (Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists).
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The SLT service across both the acute and community teams in STH has approximately 55 staff (47 therapists, 7 assistants and 4 secretarial staff) (41.23wte).
The SLT teams are highly motivated to provide a quality service to their patients, they are research active and embrace innovation. The service has established processes for supervision and supports personal and professional development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Foundation Degree Level study (Level 4) or equivalent knowledge/experience
- Functional Skills at Level 2 (Literacy and numeracy/ GCSE grade A-C (4-9) or equivalent in English and Maths)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working in a range of healthcare settings including acute wards, people’s own homes and care homes.
- Experience of supporting people with dysphagia
- Experience of communicating with and supporting people with communication difficulties.
- Experience of, and ability to, work as part of a team.
- Ability to relate to the client group/s.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to interpret dysphagia or communication therapy programmes.
- Ability to devise new activities to enable client to reach goals.
- Experience of working with people with long term medical conditions.
- Experience of training other health and social care professionals
- Experience training and supporting carers
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to engage successfully in further in-house training in dysphagia in order to gain competence at Levels 3 and 4 on the RCSLT EDSCF. (Eating, drinking and swallowing competency framework.
- Understands the remit and boundaries of Assistant Practitioner role.
- To know where, when and how to obtain information and guidance.
- Able to communicate effectively with carers/ families.
- Understanding of client confidentiality.
- Ability to organise own work
- Ability to cope with change
- Ability to work under own initiative
- Computer literate – including basic software packages e.g. Word processing, Power Point, Excel
- Good communication and interpersonal skills (verbal and written).
Desirable criteria
- Ability to adhere to protocol guided assessment processes.
- Ability to effectively communicate findings of protocol guided assessment and implement appropriate management plans.
- A basic understanding of: • The communication process. • Language disorders. • Non-verbal communication. • Total communication. • Visual support. • High tech systems. • Low tech systems. • Modifying language input
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Juliet Swain
- Job title
- Acute Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2713189
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