Clinical Lead Inpatient Speech & Language Therapy & Clinical Education

This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified speech and language therapist to work as clinical lead within the inpatientspeech therapy team across the Inpatient wards, advancing clinical practice in this area of work and taking a lead in evolving and embedding best practice. The role will also involve taking a lead on supporting the clinical education needs of the team, including the completion of newly qualified competencies and dysphagia competencies.

There will be strong working links with the Professional lead for speech & language therapy and the AHP workforce team. You will be supported to develop links with local universities to support recruitment strategies and to promote retention of colleagues through ensuring the necessary support and training is in place to meet the individual needs of the speech and language therapy inpatient team.

Main duties of the job

To perform specialist assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex conditions.

To implement, evaluate and modify highly complex, individualised care/ interventions.

To be involved in best interest and mental capacity assessments as required.

To lead service development and implement evidence based protocols and standards of care.

To provide support and supervision to colleagues (both inpatient and community settings where required), and supervision of student(s) on clinical placement.

Co-ordinate, monitor and undertake or delegate training for adult speech & language therapist requiring skills and knowledge development across Areas related to swallow and communication.

Be responsible for organising the induction of new staff with planned induction programmes and collation of post graduate learning needs. This will include supporting colleagues through newly qualified competencies and dysphagia competencies and working with the AHP workforce team to implement preceptorships.

Be the key contact for advice and guidance on issues relating to clinical education and colleague training needs

When required competencies are developed, contribute to the Videofluroscopy Service rota and support the development towards offering a FEES service.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.