Adult SLT band 5 post

We are a friendly and experienced, specialist community team of Band 8a, B7's, B5 / 6 development roles, B5 roles and SLT Assistant's, with a strong commitment to CPD. We offer excellent clinical and professional support and supervision, and access to relevant courses, internally and externally, to support you in developing your knowledge and skills. The posts will be located within the Ealing Community Partners, Adult Community SLT inpatient SLT service at Clayponds Hospital. Clayponds Hospital is a 70 bedded rehabilitation hospital. There are 3 pathways of care that include : admission avoidance; elderly rehabilitation & Neuro / Stroke level 3 rehabilitation unit. To find out more about this provision, please visit : Rosemary ward Main duties of the job You will be managed and supervised by the inpatient SLT team, and will work closely with SLT Assistants and the wider SLT team, including a Band 8a, SLT, Team Lead. The successful candidates will ideally have, some knowledge, skill and experience of working with both dysphagia and communication patients as a result of Neurological disorders including stroke, progressive degenerative disorders, care of the elderly and dementia. The successful candidates will be an active member of the multi-professional team and work to ensure its continued development. Good communication, liaison and time-management skills are required to manage the caseload effectively, in addition to being forward thinking and enthusiastic. About us We can offer you :

• An excellent support and supervision structure, including a Trust, SLT Lead
• Excellent professional development and ongoing training opportunities both internal and external
• An interesting, manageable, caseload and waiting list
• Access to Talking Mats training
• Access to a department budget for resources and equipment including a specific, Communications Aids Budget
• An opportunity to participate in innovative new work models
• Fast, effective, IT and technology
• Excellent MDT working opportunities
• Good links to the Acute environment and access to timely VF
• Work from a purpose built location with free staff parking
• The opportunity to negotiate your work hours
• Due to careful planning we aim to keep travelling times, when required, to a minimum.
The Ealing Adult SLT Team form part of the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust portfolio of services and we work closely with our colleagues within West London NHS Trust.
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The successful applicant may have contact with patients or service users. As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination as this remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients and service users when working on our healthcare settings., CLINICAL To use specialist clinical skills to manage a caseload of adults with communication and / or swallowing difficulties for patients as inpatients; out-patients, via telehealth if appropriate or in their own homes. To provide specialist assessment of communication and swallowing problems, formulate a hypothesis using a high level of clinical reasoning, and develop and implement appropriate interventions / rehabilitation to be delivered in a variety of settings. To provide appropriate specialist intervention and evaluate outcomes. To write comprehensive reports that are accessible to a range of professionals reflecting specialist knowledge. To develop clear care plans, advice and information, based on best practice and to use specialist knowledge to inform clinical judgments for care management. To ensure that patients and / or carers are involved in the planning and prioritisation of their care plans and wherever possible facilitate patients with communication and / or cognitive difficulties to participate in the process to ensure meaningful outcomes. To provide advice and training to other professionals, carers and relatives regarding the safe management and care of patients with communication and / or swallowing difficulties to maximise the patients skills and reduce clinical risk. To work collaboratively and liaise with a wide range of other professionals across a variety of locations and agencies. To adapt practice to meet individual patients circumstances, including due regard for cultural and linguistic backgrounds. To reflect on auditory, visual and kinaesthetic aspects of patients communication and to identify appropriate strategies to facilitate and enhance communicative effectiveness. To demonstrate clinical effectiveness by use of evidence-based practice and outcome measures, and maintain knowledge of current literature and developments within the specialist clinical field of adult neurology (including stroke, progressive neurological conditions, and dementia). To demonstrate some knowledge and use of high and low technology communication aids with a range of patients. To manage risk when dealing with people who live at home and who have swallowing difficulties, to promote choice by providing information about the risks and to contribute to moral and ethical decision making about oral and / or alternative feeding choices.


• Recognised Speech and Language Therapy Degree Qualification or equivalent
• Health Professions Council - Licence to Practice
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS / ABILITIES Essential
• Good presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to adult acquired communication and swallowing disorders
• Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions relevant to communication and dysphagia in specialist patient group and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
• Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance / audit / record keeping
EXPERIENCE Essential
• Involvement in multi-disciplinary working