Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist- Stroke

Band 7 Highly Specialist Speech & Language Therapist
- Stroke

Company:

Company:
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust.

We are looking for a motivated and enthusiastic team leader, with relevant experience, who is keen to use their knowledge and skills in supporting a team of Speech and Language Therapist to deliver rehabiliation to adults with complex communication and swallowing difficulties. As an organisation we pride ourselves on delivering high quality patient centred care. The successful applicant will become an integral part of a dedicated specialist rehab team comprising of speech & language therapists, physiotherapists, clinical psychologists, occupational therapists, nurses, doctors and skilled support staff.

You will line manage and provide supervision to a small team of junior speech and language therapists, students and support staff/assistants. Excellent communication skills and flexibility are essential to the role.

This is a fixed term post due to the current post holder taking maternity leave.

The successful candidate will manage a small team of Speech and Language Therapist within a stroke rehabiliation ward and become an integral part of the MDT leadership team.

You must be able to use your skills to independently undertake specialist assessment, and design patient centred rehabilaition programes, for complex communication and swallowing needs for clients within a specialist neurological caseload.

You will be expected to work as an integral part of the stroke rehabilitation MDT to deliver specialist rehabliation programmes including navigating highly complex clinical situations that includes interventions for people with complex eating and drinking problems dealing with issues of mortality, morbidity and ethical dilemmas.

You will use your skills and knowledge to work independently, provide second opinions and support the developement of knowledge and skills of junior colleagues and students.

As part of the leadership role you will be expected to lead on qualitiy improvement initiatives and service development for the service, the trust and the stroke pathway. You will also be expected to deliver trainingprogrammes with a specialist content contributing to the development of junior Speech and Language Therapists, Students, AHPs, rehabilitation assistants, rehabilitation nurses and housekeepers.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

• Undertake differential diagnosis of complex cases within a specialist caseload.
• Assess, develop and implement highly specialised programmes of care and treatment to meet the needs of clients.
• Structure clear therapy plans based on best practice and adapted to individual client needs and priorities.
• Use highly developed analytical and judgemental skills to negotiate with speech & language therapy colleagues, other professionals and carers with reference to management of complex cases.
• Record and maintain up-to-date clinical case notes in line with professional standards and trust policies
• Write reports containing highly complex, confidential and sensitive information, which may be used in a legal context.
• Offer specialist clinical support and provide second opinions to other speech and language therapists within and outside of the department.
• Independently manage a caseload that includes people with complex eating and drinking…