Speech and Language Therapist – Community

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with an exciting opportunity available for an experienced NHS Adult Community Speech and Language Therapist to join a well-established Speech & Language Therapy team based in Hadleigh.

Specialism/Team: Adult Community

Job Type & Hours: Locum Ongoing contract

Pay Rate: £30 per hour (assignment rate)

Benefits of working for Global Healthcare Jobs:

• Fully online and paperless registration service
• Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
• Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
• £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
• Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
• Find your own job bonus – Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
• Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
• Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
• Daily payroll and in-house payroll system

Main duties:

• Support the Adult Community Speech and Language Therapy Service across South East Essex by assessing of and planning management for adults with a range of acquired and progressive communication and swallowing disorders seen within the service.
• provide assessment, diagnosis and management of people with a range or communication and swallowing disorders.
• Support and supervise less experienced therapists, and assistant practitioners treating people on these case loads.
• Keep Lead Speech and Language Therapist advised of any changes or developments that may affect planning
• Responsible and accountable for the independent prioritisation and management of own clinical caseload.
• Make a differential diagnosis of communication and swallowing difficulties on the basis of specialist formal and informal clinical assessments; to ensure that all interventions are based on accurate, appropriate and sufficient assessment.
• Support and facilitate all patients in expressing their own views and needs, to enable them to take an active part in the planning of treatment.
• Use clinical assessment of patients’ communication skills to support decision making about a patient’s capacity to consent to interventions and make decisions affecting future management.
• Develop clear individual care plans based on clinical guidelines and established best practice.
• Use appropriate outcome measures, such as Care Aims, to evaluate personal clinical effectiveness.
• Provide programmes of therapy activities and demonstrations of those activities to those concerned (family, staff, visitors) to enable carry over and generalisation of new skills into the wider communicative environment.
• Consider the need to adapt clinical practice to meet the needs of patients and carers including issues relating to disability, culture and educational attainment e.g. the format of written advice, wheelchair access and interpreters.
• Ensure smooth and appropriate handover of care from one agency to another; to provide reports, reflecting specialist knowledge and interpretation of specialist assessments, to other health professionals, including GPs and Hospital consultants as requested; to make and/or recommend onward referrals to other professionals or agencies, as appropriate.
• Maintain up to date and accurate case notes in line with RCSLT professional standards and local guidelines and policies.

Requirements of the Speech and Language Therapist/SLT:

• Degree or equivalent within Speech and Language Therapy and HCPC registration
• Recent UK/NHS post qualifying experience working as a Speech and Language Therapist

Contact:

This Speech and Language Therapist/SLT job is advertised by Alex Blackwell; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Speech and Language Therapist role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, but please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.