Clinical Lead - Stroke Inpatient Therapies

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care. We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require. We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain's Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us. Find out more - Why Choose CHFT? Our Future Plans The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk, Thank you for your interest in this post. This is an exciting role that has arisen due to internal promotion and is an opportunity to lead speech and language therapy for our inpatient stroke pathway. We are looking for an experienced, highly motivated speech and language therapist to work collaboratively with the stroke MDT, whilst maintaining close links with the speech and language therapy team. This is an exciting time within stroke services, where we have secured additional workforce for speech and language therapy so are seeking the right person to lead and develop this team. The Stroke wards are based at Calderdale Royal Hospital in Halifax. We currently provide a 5 day service. The speech therapy service provides video fluoroscopy in a weekly clinic, as well as an emerging FEES (fibreoptic endoscopic evaluation) service. Training in these areas will be provided to the right candidate. You will be offered opportunities to further develop your own leadership, management, and clinical skills. This will be supported by our professional lead SALT, our AHP clinical educators as well as your fellow clinical leads within speech and language therapy. We are passionate about supporting AHP roles and have exciting new developments that you can access, such as the AHP research specialist interest group.,

• To manage the stroke caseload and appropriately delegate work to others within the MDT to deliver the service required.
• To perform specialist assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex conditions.
• To implement, evaluate and modify individualised care and interventions.
• To be involved in best interest and mental capacity assessments as required.
• To lead development and implement evidence-based protocols and standards of care.
• To provide support and supervision to others including student(s) on clinical placement.
• To be involved in MDT events, including workforce development and training, meetings and conferences, Work within the Stroke therapy service leading, co-ordinating and developing effective clinical interventions within the speciality of stroke care to advance clinical practice in the team in line with current evidence base.
• Manage autonomously a clinical workload of patients / clients at a highly specialist level, assessing and treating patients and maintaining clinical records.
• Have highly specialist assessment and treatment skills within the specialist area.
• Apply evidence-based knowledge within the clinical area.
• Act as a resource and provide advice for Speech & Language Therapists, other professionals and colleagues within the MDT about the assessment, treatment, management and care of patients.
• Work collaboratively with health and social care, community, and acute colleagues. Maintain good working relationships with our community Stroke ESD partners.
• Take a lead, and work with other members of the MDT to ensure effective care pathways and transfer of care / discharges.
• Proactively and appropriately facilitate a seamless transfer of care and continuing therapeutic management of stroke patients between care settings.
• Work collaboratively in an interdisciplinary manner within the MDT, being able to debate the blurring of boundaries across professions and where competent take on aspects of blurred boundary working.
• Develop highly specialist programmes of assessment, treatment and intervention for stroke patients with communication and/or swallowing deficits.
• Manage and prioritise own clinical workload as appropriate, working efficiently to manage professional time and delegate according to the training and competency levels of other team members to ensure the effective delivery of the service.
• Participate in the supervision process with staff on a daily basis and for students as required.
• Ensure a high standard of patient care is provided including implementing and reviewing clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken.
Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care for one another in order that we can provide compassionate care for the people who use our services. We are passionate about creating a workplace where we work together to get results, encouraging colleagues to have their say, in order to co create the change we want to see. We take pride in the diversity of our workforce that's why we encourage applications from all. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants. Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/education history over the last three years and include valid email addresses for them. We will request electronic Factual Employment References from your previous employers. These references will be requested before you are issued with an unconditional offer of employment letter. If you are appointed to a post, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system. The Inter-Authority Transfer (IAT) process is a critical and beneficial component of ESR and following interview your previous NHS employment data, if applicable will be transferred from your current / most recent employer. You may be required to undertake a DBS. The Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £42.90, Standard £22.90 or Basic £22.90) from your salary when you commence in post (including Internal staff). You will also be required to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year. This is a condition of your employment. CHFT is part of the West Yorkshire Association of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), a collaborative of the NHS hospital trusts from across West Yorkshire and Harrogate working together to provide the best possible care for our patients. If you have any questions please contact [email protected] for assistance.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres 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. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community. Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.