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Job summary

Main area
Mental Health
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent: We are also able to offer this post as a band 6 - band 7 development opportunity.
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
  • Job share
30 hours per week
Job ref
354-CO-21315-C
Employer
Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Mill View hospital
Town
Hove
Salary
£35,392 - £50,056 pa / pro rata for part time
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/05/2024 23:59

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Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust logo

Senior Specialist Speech & Language Therapist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Welcome from our Chief Executive

Our organisation is expanding and we're looking for people with the right values, skills and/or potential to join us. We need people with energy, expertise, enthusiasm to help us provide the very best possible specialist NHS mental health and learning disability care. This involves helping us achieve our strategy to improve the quality of life for the communities we serve through People, Prevention and Partnerships.

So what can we offer you in return?

We're an organisation which puts people first. We'll do everything possible to help you feel respected, valued and included. We'll help you learn, acquire new skills and gain further experience to support your career development. And we'll provide the opportunity for you to bring your fresh ideas to work about how we can do things differently and continue improving.

You will also be joining a health and care system committed to working together to do the best we can for the communities we serve. Above all, at Sussex Partnership you'll have the chance to make a difference to the lives of the patients, carers and families across our communities.

As a Trust we are committed in making a difference. Your development is important to us, so don't forget to ask us during interview what opportunities we can offer. We can offer fully funded lifelong learning opportunities such as an apprenticeship from GCSE to Masters level.

If you like the sound of that, then come and join our team.

Job overview

Are you looking for a change? Do you want a job with more autonomy, and an opportunity to influence the development of SLT input?  We have a vacant post working across 4 wards in Langley Green Hospital (Acute Adult Mental Health) and Uckfield Hospital (Beechwood Dementia ward).  If you have experience of working with adults across any setting, an innovative approach to service delivery, good leadership skills and are passionate about providing communication input as well as dysphagia assessment and intervention we welcome your application.

 

 

You will be providing SLT input, within a MDT framework,  working with patients at Uckfield Hospital (Dementia ward) and Langley Green Hospital (AMH wards). You will also support the wider SLT team across Sussex providing duty cover for the referral inbox and occasionally providing cover in other areas in an emergency.

 

You will be dedicated and enthusiastic with an open mind. You will be familiar with working with other professions, agencies and families and carers. You will have an understanding of the changing landscape of the NHS.  You will have several years of clinical experience in one or more adult settings and will be confident in supervision, supporting students, working alongside a MDT and communicating at all levels.  Experience in service improvement and design is particularly welcome as is a flexible approach to implementing and leading in innovative changes.

Main duties of the job

The SLT service is a small team of SLTs working across the county.  We accept referrals for dysphagia and communication from within our services, via a central SLT referral inbox.  Referrals are managed via a duty system (rota) and you will have responsibility for referral triage at least one day per week.

You will offer face to face dysphagia assessments to patients across the 4 wards. You will provide language assessment to support differential diagnosis, capacity assessments and decision-making, and to  to support patients to engage in their treatment and care plans.

You will use electronic systems in a methodical and timely way to capture your clinical input for the safety and effectiveness of the patients' journey through our services.

You will contribute to the continuous development of the service, bringing creative solutions, a flexible attitude and an open and positive mindset, and always with the patient's wellbeing at the centre of everything you do.

 

 

 

 

Working for our organisation

We provide mental health and learning disability care for children, young people and adults across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.  You will be working with adults with mental health and Dementia diagnoses in our acute inpatient services.

 

Working in Sussex:

·  Travel easily between coast and countryside, with a blend of picturesque villages and seaside towns there’s always new experiences to be enjoyed

·       Embrace the city life with great access to visit Brighton and London

·       With easy access to Gatwick and Heathrow and excellent railway links across the UK there is plenty of opportunity for adventure

We’d love you to join our organisation that is rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff agree, with 82% of people in our recent staff survey telling us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key staff survey results include:

·       70% highlighting flexible working opportunities as a key point for satisfaction at work

·       79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work within their team

·       77% identifying the opportunities to show initiative in their roles

See the attached ‘Partnership Perks’ document for details about our benefits package.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 

·       Qualified and experienced Speech and Language Therapist, with at least 5 years post graduate experience.

·       Responsible for managing an often complex dysphagia and communication caseload for adults in acute inpatient settings; providing assessments, interventions, training and support to the MDT

·       To communicate the findings of your assessments effectively to colleagues, other agencies and family/carers

·       To contribute towards MDT risk assessments and care plans

·       To develop and deliver packages of training for both Communication and Dysphagia

·       To regularly support and cover the duty rota

·       To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Service

·       0.6 WTE

·       To regularly share and supervise students on practice placement.

·       For further information or to discuss the post, please contact the SLT team lead, Mary-Helen L'Heureux at [email protected]  07471032042 (working days Tues, Wed,

Travel is an essential part of the role which involves travel between wards.  You will be required to work from home for some of your working week (hot desking and other accommodation options can be offered if working from home is not possible).

 

 

MAIN DUTIES

 

See attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details.

 

Please apply using the link in this advert, or for more information explore the attachments or contact:

Mary-Helen L'Heureux – Principle Speech & Language Therapist:

[email protected]

(We are happy to arrange informal visits – currently Covid dependant)

 

 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Licence to practice as a Speech & Language Therapist
  • HPC registration

Knowledge/Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive experience as a qualified SLT
  • Broad experience of working with clients with a range of abilities and disabilities
  • Experience of both group and individual work
  • Experience of multidisciplinary working
  • Experience of supervising staff and students
  • Experience in a clinical area related to the post
  • Experience of multi-agency work
  • Experience in applying a range of assessment tools and a comprehensive knowledge of relevant SLT clinical approaches
  • Audit experience
  • Experience of service development
  • Expert knowledge of SLT assessments and interventions including dysphagia

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident leaderDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - BronzeCare quality commission - GoodArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardStep into health

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Mary-Helen L'Heureux
Job title
Principal Speech & Language Therapist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07471 032042
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